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Hi All, I think this might be quite simple as there are literally 4 cables but thought i would ask you guru's!! My plasterer (very good and conscientious) decided to remove the fire alarms and the internal alarm siren from the ceilings/walls in order to plaster behind... this of course has...

Hello all. This may sound a silly question but how's best to connect 150mm ducting to a 110mm pipe? Our business have left a small bit of soil pipe sticking out for the kitchen extractor. I was going to reduce the pipe to 100mm ducting but the kitchen surveyor said that it's too small and that...

Good Morning DIY Not Guru's I wonder if one of you lovely people can offer me some advice. We are finishing off (soonish hopefully) a house extension, we are torn between my father in law who purportedly knows everything to asking Google - but somethings we are just not sure of. We have...

Good Afternoon, We have recently had an extension built in order to keep costs down we are trying to do a lot of the internal finishing ourselves :-/ We have a double storey wrap around extension on a demi detached house - on the attached side we have a single storey element that is a pitched...

Good Afternoon, Sorry if this has been asked and answered before i did a search for screed in the forum but its wasnt coming up with anything that gave me the answer. We have just had an extension (shell completed), long story but we are no longer using the builders or their contacts for the...

Good Afternoon, We are currently in the throes of a house extension, part of which is a side extension with a bedroom above the garage. I am just calculating how many sheets of plasterboard to order for the ground floor ceilings and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right...

Good Morning. We are currently in the middle of a house extension, we have asked our builders to do the brick build and then we are going to do all of the finishing ourselves (or with help of family). If we cant do anything then we have the option to pay the builders a day rate. The builders...

Good Morning! I am after some advice please. We are in the middle of having a house extension done, we are quite competent DIYer's and have a super father in law for lots of help. We asked out builders to quote and build us the shell of the extension and then we would get on and arrange all of...

Good Afternoon I was wondering if i could ask for some advice/knowledge on soil pipe/sewerage please. We have just (a week ago) submitted some plans to our local authority to have an extension built. Double side and rear (to a point then going to single on the "attached side"). We would like...

Good Morning, I am looking for a but of advice if possible please. As you do over a bank holiday weekend we have decided to start installing a new fence on our garden boundary :D. Though we knew our garden sloped we didnt take this into account when buying the gravel boards and posts...

Hi all, I currently have an electric oven (single) that has a plug on it. The sparkie that wired my kitchen said it wasn't powerful enough to warrant it's own circuit! (Ok whatever). So it was fitted using 6mm cable and has an isolator as we requested it (stops kids keep turning oven on)...

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone can help with some troubleshooting. Ive owned my flat for about 10 years now and when bought it had a triton HP combi mixer with separate pump. During this time weve lost 2 pumps and replaced them no problems. Recently a plastic part from the shower dial...

Hi All. I know that fibreboard is typically used under vinyl or laminate but I was wondering could i use it on floor boards under underlay and carpet? I was planning on using hardboard but wondered if fibreboard had the same effect? Os is that just a silly idea (just asking as someone...

Hi All, I am having my bathroom done in a couple of weeks and im looking at tiles designs. I like it to be quite plain so am going to go for bumpy white tiles and then a pearly mosaic accent behind the shower riser. I was just wondering the bumpy tiles are 4mm thick and the mosaic's are...

I have just had the electrics done in a house that I have just bought. I dont want to ask the electrician this question as he is a complete tw@t and weve had to spend hours removing conduit that is too big for the channels and replacing it and various other things. Weve had a cooker...

I have just bought a 1950s built house where the downstairs floor in concrete For the most part we have dropped the radiators down from upstairs through walls but in the living room (round bay) where the radiators is located we have had to cut a floor channel. This we have done and the...

HELP I have just bought a new house and my father in law has insisted doing the electrics...apparently he is fully qualified to do so BUT isnt registered to sgn it off... in his words " i cant sign it off, its up to you if you have it signed off but personally i wouldnt" this scares me...

Advice pretty please? I know its hard to explain without photos...but ive just bought a new house 1950s built it has 2 under stairs cupboards and in between the two there is a breeze block wall that has been plastered - has anyone come across this before? I'd really like to remove the...

short and sweet question. my father in law has just qualified as an electrician and has insisted on rewiring our new house (new to us but 1950s built) he wont start the rewiring until we have the consumer unit (which has been ordered) but I was under the impression you could run cables and...

Hi All, Just after some advice really. Hubby and I have just bought a 1950s built house (1930s round bay style but smaller than a 1930s build). The floors downstairs are concrete, this naturally means that the CH that is installed the pipework runs down and across walls and is very...