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Hi, Im currently building a small(ish) garden building with pitched roof and am looking for advice or reassurance on how to tie rafters at the top. The roof has been designed what I understand to be built "traditionally" with single ridge steel and rafters. The beam has a bearer board bolted...

Hi, She who must be obeyed finally gave permission to have a home bar/pub built in the garden, and rather than go the usual convert a shed route, I went with block and the idea that render would match some parts of the house. Decided on a narrow cavity wall (50mm cavity) Anyway, I went away...

Can anyone advise if a celing rose type cable layout is mandatory with a new install or rewire, or at least do the junction boxes need to be easily accessible (i.e. no punching holes in ceilings or lifting carpets? The reason for my question is that I'm embarking on fitting remote switches to...

Hi, Bit of a strange one, but Im hoping somebody has come across it before. Ive experienced the following on more than one occasion. 1. User sets the alarm using the proximity tag and leaves the house. 2. Return home, and as the keys were still in the car (other half getting kids out), I...

So, while prepping a floor ready for carpets going down this week, I discovered another issue left behind by our builder. There are two "humps" in the floor. Starting at the skirting/wall and radiating our about 600mm or so in a semi-circle. I believe these have been caused by not chopping...

Well, it turns out Ive got stuck when programing my 48 panel. Ive got wintex connected, Ive managed to (I think) name all zones and set up the zones up correctly in the settings. However I'm still having some issues when trying to program it to do what I want to do. Basically I have the...

I'm well into wiring it up now, but just got a couple of questions: when I wire a zone/pir into a keypad panel do I just tap into the +12 and 0V feeding the keypad to get power to the pir itself? A the panel end, do I just stick all the +12v and 0v for all the pirs into the aux 12v supply on...

Does anyone have an installation guide for Texecom - Im specifically installing the 48 metal panel and hoping to do it this weekend. After various posts and much help from others in a previous thread (//www.diynot.com/diy/threads/texecom-installation-assistance-confirmation.442972/) I...

Hi, Ive just had an energy efficiency review/certificate done on a building I own, and one of the items noted on the improvements is the replacement of 38mm T12 tubes with 26mm T8 tubes. However when Ive taken a light down myself to check this, Ive found they are Phillips PL-L, not T12. Ive...

Hi, Im a DIYer, and am planning on installing a new alarm system into our house. Ive previously coped with IP cctv installations etc, and am not phased by the complexities of an alarm system (famous last words before calling an installer). What does annoy me is the installation instructions...

Hi, New to the forum and Ive found it while looking for information or assistance with regard to my home central heating/hot water issues. In short, we have had a rather large extension put on our house, which while we were at it, we had the whole heating system renewed as part of the existing...