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I have LED downlights all round the house. I just turned on my study lights, and pop! There was a brief flash, which to my mind looked like it was localised to one of the four spotlights in the study, and the lights on the whole floor went out. The RCD for the whole floor had tripped. I put it...

Hi, My two gang (is that right?) dimmer switch broke, so I have attempted to replace it. The left dimmer controls the bathroom light and the right dimmer controls a stairwell light. There is also another plain, non-dimmer switch at the top of the stairs which also controls the stairwell light...

Hi, One of our power sockets seems to have spontaneously stopped working. Our tumble dryer was old and already had a fault. We already believed it was on its way out, when we lost power throughout the house during a drying cycle. Sure enough, the switch that tripped on the RCD was the one that...

Hi, We just had what we thought was a power cut. All the electrics cut out, until we realised it was the main circuit breaker on the RCD which had tripped. None of the individual circuit breakers had tripped, just the main. I turned them all off again, flipped the main breaker on, and then one...

Ok, so I put a foot onto our screed too early and it left a depression. Underfloor heating mats and laminate tiles are meant to go over it another day. is it f*cked? What can I do? Or can there be a self leveller applied or something??

Hi, All the answers to questions I see which ask about when you can walk on screed after laying, typically say 24-48 hours (or as little as 12 for a special type). But this is described as being for ‘light traffic’. I just want to walk over mine ONCE. The floor is 4.6m across. So, never...

Hi, We've had bi-fold doors fitted to our extension, but they don't have an external handle or lock, meaning we can only lock them using a lever from the inside. I assume that is how they are designed, rather than someone forgot to attach that! My question is, can a handle and lock be added...

Hi, My extension floor is currently having screed put down over 150mm Celotex insulation. I don't know the thickness, but it would be a few cm of screed I'd say. We have a cat - he has already tried to get over the wet screed whilst it was in progress. I understand that screed dries about a...

We are having our conservatory replaced. The brick walls and windows are done and the roof is almost complete. There is one sky window pane to put in the roof still so there’s a hole in the roof, and the floor is about 30cm lower than it should be with the concrete slab exposed and insulation...

New building regulations came into force in June 2022, via Approved Document L. Paragraphs 4.16-4-17 in L1(a) concerns the ‘continuity of insulation’ in new dwellings, with requirements for insulation to be unbroken and consistent. New dwellings also have U value requirements under paragraph...

Hi all, I wonder if you might know the answer to a question I have. We are having a replacement conservatory built and wish to move the kitchen from its current position to inside it. The sink will be located on the far side of the conservatory and the waste pipe would run from that to the...

Hi all, I hope you can help please? We have had builders in to fit a new bathroom. The floorboards have been up (one even put his foot through the ceiling), the bath and toilet taken out, the radiator has gone too. Anyway, shortly after they started their work we noticed a very high pitched...