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Hi, Our house has modern wiring, it also has a new metal Consumer Unit, with a split rail, 2 x RCD and SPD. The house has 2 lighting circuits, Ground Floor and First Floor. All the bulbs in the house are LED, but some are better quality LED bulbs and four of the bulbs are cheap large...

Hi there, We have already bought our 18mm thick tongue and groove Solid Oak Flooring, that is pre oiled. It's also very heavy and weighs approx 700kg across 50 sq metres. It is currently being acclimatised for 7 days. The concrete sub floor has has been self levelled and is mostly very level...

Hi, I am NOT an electrician; but I spotted something that I thought was weird or bad practice. A friend had her house mostly rewired by electricians a few months ago. She already had a separate 32A MCB and circuit for Oven/Hobs with a 6mm T/E cable. And the electricians decided to use that...

Hi, We have an office outbuilding that we want to share our homes high speed 200mb Virgin Media internet with. I would like to connect a second Wi-fi Router to our main Virgin Media Router using a 30m long underground Cat 6 Ethernet cable. Is this posisble? I have heard that this is possible...

Hi, Our house has been Clare with that external wall insulation stuff and rendered with a milder silicone based render. However it’s a creamy off white colour and also really dirty. We want to repaint the house in brilliant white. What paint should I use for repainting this render? Thanks

Hi, We have one of those modern composite front doors that is solid wood on inside and PVC on the outer faces. It's currently Black, but very worn and damaged and we want to repaint it Black again. Am i correct that i will need to give it a good clean and then paint with a B-I-N Primer first...

Hi, I have a Hikvision Turbo 8 channel 1080p CCTV DVR, which can export the feed via both a HDMI port and a VGA port at 1080p. I have two monitors connected to the DVR, one connected via a short 2m 1080p cable in the same room and one connected via a very long 15m VGA port. When i have the...

Hi, I am installing a new Honeywell Accenta Mini G4 system now. I have installed this system before with no issues. Everything is wired correctly, all connects seems solid, all tamper wires for PIRs daisy chained correctly etc. For the power for each of the 4 PIRs, i have connected the 8...

Hi, I am currently installing an Intellisense AG6 bellbox to a Honeywell Accenta Mini G4 system. I just want to double check the wiring of the bellbox. On the Alarm control panel is have the connections: BELL - BELL + STROBE - SCB T SCB A On the Bell Box I have: ST - R - SW - V + V - How...

Hi, We have a new Mira Agile ERD mixer shower, this one: However, we are intalling it over a Bath and we have a very large bath, with significant sloped sides. The overtop deluge head only sticks out from the wall by 520mm total or 420mm to the centre of the head and this won't quite...

Hello, The house that we have bought has a CU that was last tested in 2016. It has a 100A supply Main Switch and then a single 63A RCD that protects 7 x MCB: 1 x 40A Shower - 10mm Cable 1 x 32A Cooker - 6mm Cable 1 x 32A Ground Floor Ring Main - 2.5mm Cable 1 x 32A First Floor (small) +...

Hi, I installed an Accenta G4 Mini alarm system myself over 1 year ago. The system has 2 x LCD keypads, 1 x external siren, 1 x external dummy, 1 x internal siren, 3 x door contacts and 5 x pet tolerant PIRs. All has been mostly fine for over 1 year, but recently we've had a couple of false...

Hi, We have a Honyewell Accenta G4 system setup in our house with control panel, 6 x PIR and 3 x door contacts. A few months ago we were having occasional issues of two of the PIRs setting off the alarm with a tamper fault. I checked ALL of the wiring on both the PIR ends and the Control Panel...

Hi, We had a Vaillant EcoTec Plus 832 + Rads + Filters + Plumbcentre Thermostat all installed recently. This issue we are having is that the burner never goes into high gear, it always stays super low (on the buner scale) and rads take 1 hour to get fully hot. I have read that these boilers...

Hello, We recently bought a house, which we mostly gutted/demolished and rebuilt. I am NOT an electrician, but i have spent several years working as a labourer alongside domestic electricians and being shown what to do by these electricians. I also have an electricians manual with wiring...

Hello, We have a new roof, with new frames, new tiles and new velux windows (all 1 year old now). We have done most things right on our project, however one decision that i am REALLY not happy with is the size of our Velux windows. We currently have 550x1200 top hung Velux windows, which are...

Hello, We have a new roof, with new frames, new tiles and new velux windows (all 1 year old now). We have done most things right on our project, however one decision that i am REALLY not happy with is the size of our Velux windows. We currently have 550x1200 top hung Velux windows, which are...

Hello, We currently have a horizontal flue for our Glowworm boilder. The flue goes through the external wall and is sighted about 50-100mm below our eaves / soffit. Is this illegal? I am paranoid that the vent gases might seep back into the roof space. The flue does project forward off the...

Hi, We have a modern glass fibre skinned composite door. It's a couple of years old now and has been through a lot on our very messy building site and so it needs some touching up on the outside. The outside is black and we wish to repaint it black again to make it look like new. I know that...

Hi, We have a glass fibre / PVC skinned composite door. It's a couple of years old now and has been through a lot on our very messy building site and so it needs some touching up on the outside. The outside is black and we wish to repaint it black again to make it look like new. I know that...