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Hi, An old external garden socket finally gave up the ghost, it had cable coming up with single live, neutral and earth and was cabled into one of the sockets and the other was simply chained on with 3 wires to its own live, neutral and earth. Bought a replacement socket thinking was either...

Hi, I posted on this a while back but ever since been given run around by builder and roofer and not sure what to do next, we had a two storey extension done last year and ever since when windy there is a flapping noise coming from the felt, the roofer came back and trimmed the felt to edge...

Hi, Need to re-route gas as part of renovation and best solution is to run tracpipe from meter to new boiler in garage, it would mean running pipe in ground (following recommendations/regs on depth/covering) through the gap pictured below which is 950 at narrowest point : Are there any regs...

Hi, After a bit of a saga with my plumber (posted before), I need to chose boiler size as soon as possible, the plumber is not going to do any heat loss calculations or do anything to work out accurately so I am on my own. Appreciate this is not what should be doing but after some level of...

Hi, In middle of renovation, at the end will be a 4 bed detached house (1950's) with reasonable insulation (new extension will be to new regs). There will be two electric showers and additional new one from the hot water tank. There are two zones of wet underfloor heating (zone 1 16m squared...

Having a 2 storey extension done, builders haphazardly measured the floor level and despite saying better to come in under as better to make up height when they knocked through new floor level was good chunk higher - why they didn't knock a pilot hole through despite suggesting it is a mystery...

Hi, Finally going to have a tv setup with a refurb project and have opted for wet under floor heating under porcelain tiles, one end of the room is going to have sub woofer, two floor standing speakers and a large cabinet with various boxes, the tv is going on the wall above it. Is there any...

Hi, Builder has poured two separate concrete floors either side of a wall, the wall has now come down as going to be open plan area, and turns out floors are at different levels. The next step was going to be insulation board and then pipework on top for under floor heating and a liquid screed...

Many thanks to everyone who took time to respond to my previous post on asbestos exposure, some re-assuring posts and some worrying ones but have reconciled fact that nothing can do about the exposure and due to distances hoping not to many fibres got on me, I will never understand why I didn't...

Hi, Having renovation done and when builders cut through plastic soft fit yesterday in two places for block work to go up on second storey with jig saw turns out there was a thin cement board on the underside, I was in garden watching as discussing project with builder, the builder then...

Hi, Having double height extension done to replace conservatory. The blockwork started today after foundations completed. The wall on back of house that originally formed part of conservatory has plasterboard dot and dabbed on it, this will be removed and replaced. The new block work is...

Hi we are looking at some 4.8m sliders and 2.5m bi-folds in a south west facing garden and worried about overheating. Been looking at various solutions including pergolas and Brise Soleil to create shading. Did find on one site that for a Brise Soleil in south west elevation would need 0.7m *...

Hi, Just having alarm fitted and it uses has 12 1.2 AM battery in it (brand new) one of these : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152702115236 There is going to be loads of other electrical work going on over coming weeks where main power will be off for the whole day and switched back on in...

Hi, Been fantastic forum for renovation project and had another query, below is plan for rear renovation which has 2.5m bi-folds in kitchen area and 4.8m 3 panel slider in dining/lounge area (two panels will slide toward living/TV end). The windows overlook garden which is South West Facing and...

Have chimney breast in room that is soon to become hall, it is not capped at top, want to block it off with plaster board and was going to put vent in to allow airflow. Could I then put a radiator on that wall, will be over but not blocking the vent if that makes sense, will the rad just suck...

Just starting renovations and planning on taking a wall out that is directly opposite front door to create a nice big hallway to rea of house as bit weird at moment as you go through what is being used as an office at moment to get through to back of house (moving office elsewhere). Picture...

Hi, Was just working out some finer details of downstairs layout and was looking at minimum hallway widths which seems to be for a standard 762 door if head on 900mm and if side on 1200mm, all good so far on the downstairs but then suddenly though mmm what about what the architect has designed...

Hi, Have an old ADT installed alarm that hasn't been on in 10+ years been living in house, going to replace the panel but wandered if the ADT alarm box and wiring to the outside is still good as box still looks good and if doesn't need replacing then could save bit of money. Have attached...

Hi, Have single storey extension at back of house and had planning approved for some renovation works. Part of that is to have 4.5m (3 panel) sliding doors at back in the single storey part. Had structural engineer design the beam needed and design says : 250 x 150 x 80 RHS with 300mm 8mm...

Hi we live in a 1950's detached house with a conventional boiler system with the two tanks in the attic, hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and boiler in the garage. We have never had any problems with it in 10 years lived here but about to do two storey extension which at the end will...