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Hi, I'm planning on rewiring my house in the near future. As I'm not certified I'll be getting building control to inspect and sign off on the installation. Before I send in the BC notice I was hoping that some of the experienced people here could run an eye over my initial plans to see if there...

Hi, I've just skimmed the walls and ceiling in what will become my new bathroom. I'm going to give them a couple of weeks to dry out and then paint them with Zinsser Permawhite but I'm not sure how to treat the bare walls before the top coat. Should I thin the Permawhite to make a mist coat...

I'm hoping I can get some advice about my drains. I'm adding a bathroom to my property and I need to fit a new soil stack next to an existing rainwater downspout. There is a driveway made of concrete slabs running along side the house and beside the drain, I took one of the 3' x 2' slabs up so I...

*I'm posting this to the Building Regs subforum as I've seen quite a few posts about building next to or over sewers, I'm hoping someone here will know enough about working with the water companies to answer this one. If it would be better off in another area please let me know* Hello all...

I have a few questions regarding a bathroom renovation I am planning. Rather than put them all in one big post I thought I'd split them up, the first questions are about RCDs and FCUs. Background Currently my house doesn't have a bathroom upstairs. Instead there is a sort of en-suite...

I'm building a partition wall at the moment and I have bought a cabinet (one of these http://cbsethumb.blob.core.windows.net/534x389/51/07/92/ikea-bertby-2634025.jpg) which I plan to set back into the wall so the front of the cabinet doesn't stick out as far. I plan to install a 240v...

I've bought some magnetic door sensors (CQR SC570) but the lip of the upvc doors I want to fit them on is as thick as the sensors themselves. If I screw the unwired side on the face of the door it won't actually line up with the part screwed to the door frame when the door is closed, it'll be...

I've just moved into a new house which has a Baxi Bermuda 552 fire and back boiler heating system. The fire operated OK the first time I tested it and hasn't been on since. Today I had to turn the electricity supply off to do some electrical work and it occured to me that doing so might have...

I'm looking to buy some decent internal movement detectors, some door sensors and a bell box. I'm spending a fair bit on the alarm itself so no point scrimping on the other elements. Can anybody recommend some good makes/models of: Magnetic door sensors (the surface mount type, they are...

Hi all I've just bought a new house and plan to fit an alarm. I'll be installing it myself; I'm a competent DIYer, I've run cable for IT networks and have experience of programming languages/software. I have been looking at the Comfort II Ultra system from Cytech...

Hi all, I'm just about to buy a new house and have a lot of changes planned. The first step is replacement of a back boiler/tank heating system with a combi-boiler. Ideally I'd like to install the new combi at the rear of the house but the gas supply is at the front - I was wondering whether it...