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Our dishwasher has completely died and we need a replacement. The problem is our kitchen is very old and the counters are lower than is standard now. So we only have a hole 81cm tall, possibly 81.5 at a pinch, for the dishwasher. We can’t cut out a section of worktop as that’s the draining...

ive just had my boiler replaced by British Gas and I’ve got a few electrical questions they didn’t cover. Their electrician pointed out that I need a 10mm earth cable from my consumer unit to the gas pipe and water main. That’s fine and I can get that done. Previously the switch for the...

i have an odd arrangement of radiators in one bedroom of my house. There are three radiators in a bay window and they are plumbed in series! Hot water enters the right one, then there's a bit of pipe between 1 & 2, then a bit of pipe between 2 & 3 and then the exit valve on the left. The thing...

I'm looking to replace my ancient electic garage door controls. The door is an electric roller type with a light alongside. Currently you have to press the remote once to turn on the light then Again to start the door going, which is just annoying. Having had a look inside today the motor is...

im installing a socket on my gate post as part of my gate instillation, for very occasional use of garden machinery rather than having miles of extensions trailing. The socket and gate motor will be at the end of a 50m SWA cable running from my garage. It will be on its own MCB in the garage and...

So I'm an idiot. I was using a sharp Stanley knife to strip the insulation back on some cable. Sitting on the grass in the garden as it's for outdoor lights. Nothing to rest on so I used my leg. And the inevitable happened. Slipped, cut a gash in my thigh. Spent the rest of the afternoon in A&E...

I'm needing to put three three way joints into an armoured cable I'm running for outdoor lights. The joints will be above ground and the SWA is 1.5mm. I'm wondering what people here would recommend as the best joiner. I've seen this in the Screwfix catalogue...

i have four lampposts to fit up my drive way. One about six foot tall and three about three feet tall they all have bases with three holes for screws. I'm planing to put them in the lawn next to the drive. I was planing to dig holes about two feet deep and six inches round, run a flexible...

ive been looking at running armoured cable down my drive, well I fact two cables, one for lights and one for an electric gate. All the cables I've seen are not coloured as I'd expect. Three core is brown/black/grey. So assuming you still use brown as live would I use black as neutral? And what...

I'm installing some driveway lights and obviously nowadays they need to be auto controlled. What I really want is them on at dusk and off at 11pm or so. Is there a time switch that'll do this for me? I've found plenty of dusk till dawn, and dusk for x hours, but that's not really what I'm after...

I am adding a new room to my house by taking down the the wall of an existing shower room and building a new stud wall on the large upstairs landing. The new wall requires two doors as it will also contain a vestibule to access the bathroom. I've got a building warrant for all this, stamped and...