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I'm painting new timber (no idea what, probably pine, it's full of knots) and MDF cupboard doors in a bathroom. Plus a mostly sanded back to the wood main door frame and mouldings, and a new cheap door similarly full of knots in the edges. If I'm using Zinsser BIN to prime, do I still need to...

Here's the situation: I have (had) upstairs and downstairs lighting on separate circuits with 6A/30mA RCBOs. When I turned on the landing light (which is wired into the downstairs circuit) from ether hallway or landing switch, the downstairs RCBO trips. It also trips if I turn on the kitchen...

I recently found that our side building is partly wired in 1960's VIR cable (which has no integrated earth continuity), embedded into the cement ceiling and render. The scum who owned the house previously did the trick of replacing the old cable with new where it could be seen, but then hiding...

We have a toilet in an out-building on the side of the house that we want rid of. See picture. Has anyone done similar and has advice please? The floor is concrete, with the tiny toilet room in the middle of the whole outbuilding. It looks like the toilet is cemented to the floor (probably...

Our gable end has an inactive (as far as I can tell) crack in the gable end. It's a bit of an odd construction... There are single-story 'outbuildings' with a flat, concrete roof on the side of the house; that roof is embedded into the gable wall half way up it. I think it is just embedded into...

The meter in our house has two set of tails coming from the consumer side of it (got worried when I first saw it until I ascertained they both came from that side). The two sets of tails actually connect into the meter itself; not through a junction box. One set goes to the main CU, the other...

I have a number of projects I want to do in our new (old!) house. I think I understand what's notifiable but would appreciate confirmation/input to make sure I don't run into trouble. 1. External sockets in garden. Spur taken off kitchen ring circuit to an RCD/13A-fused faceplate inside, then...