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First time ever to submit to planning and was looking to see what your thoughts were. Our architect seems to think the objections are unfounded. Neighbour objects for 1) overdevelopment, 2) badly designed and 3) overlooking With regards to double storey, that's only the cut out, and as for...

Hi all, Looking for some advice before contacting an electrician. I'd like to have some LED decking lights installed, however control them via a smart switch from inside the house. 1. We have a double socket on the inside of the outside wall so assume an electrician could tap into that from...

Hi Does anyone have any experience with an Abode Pronteau 3 in 1 / Proboil 2 Hot Water Tap? The "near" boiling water has started taking longer to come out. Takes about 16 seconds before any water at all. It was around 8 seconds last week and the unit was installed around 10/11 months ago where...

Hi all, Planning on knocking out the living room chimney breast in the new year. Just wanted to run it past the pro's here first. We will get an engineer in to survey prior but that will be in January, just want to plan various options before hand. At the moment we have: Chimney breast in...

Quick q for the experts.... This beading got lifted when the old porcelain tiles came up. The door was new and the fitter put the beading there as there was a slight gap. Now the new porcelain tiles are down and up to the threshold, is it best to put the beading back? Thanks

Hi all, About a year ago an electrician fitted a plug socket (no switch on it) behind a utility room kitchen base unit so we can plug some plinth lights in (LED strip lights) so we can now control them via a wall switch. I believe the plug socket was connected to the lighting circuit. Works...

We've always had a draft coming from behind the kitchen units and ripping it out today found the culprit. Quite a large hole (not sure if this is normal) but my questions are: 1. Can you fill it 2. If so, what's best to use? some kind of foam? Thanks

Hi all, Appreciate its difficult to tell with pictures but hope someone can help. I'm prepping our floors prior to employing a tiler to lay porcelain wood effect tiles. 1. Hallway area I pulled up some very thick (seemed good quality) vinyl tiles to find this black stuff underneath. Is this...

Hello all, I wasn't sure where to post as its not an electrical question as such, but as sparkers do a lot of cabling I'm hoping someone can help. Here's a pic of the void space directly above our kitchen. On the other side of the brick wall is the loft space of what was a garage (now...

Hope you guys can advise. We are having a complete renovation in the kitchen / dining room where we've just had a load bearing wall removed. We want an electrician install 3 or 4 rows of spots running one end (kitchen) to the other (dining room) You'll see the plasterboard pulled back for the...

Hi all, Having a steel put in next week and having the wall removed. As this is all new to me I'm unsure how it all pans out with the electrical cables. The pics are of the same part of the wall but different sides (kitchen/diner) what's the usual course of action here? Can you route a...

Looks like the previous owners have moved their gas hob to where it resides now (central island) The capped pipe in the picture was discovered when I move some kitchen cabinets yesterday, ready for the wall you can also see is removed. I'm assuming as its capped there's still gas in the pipe...

....one for the experts. Have I got this right? (never had this type of work done before) 10ft supporting wall between kitchen / dining room which we wish to remove down to kitchen counter level to create an open plan kitchen diner with a kitchen peninsular between (lower half of wall has...

Hi all, I've been left with this, basically the area pictured is where the bottom brackets for my radiator are going. This is how it was left. Not sure why as I wasn't home. I could call the plasterer back but I'd rather put right myself. Would this be the best approach? 1. PVA 2. Bonding*...

Hello, Recently had a boiler moved and this was the state of the wall behind it. The cement around the breeze block is quite soft and breaks with a prod. The circular breeze above it came out of the flue hole where the boiler moved to and we used it to plug in the old flue hole. This is...

Hi all, Looking for some advice please. Such as approx. cost (Northampton area), time to take, cost and feasibility/issues that could be raised. We wish to move our boiler (5 yrs old) from its current location into the loft space above it and on to another outer wall (approx. 15ft) The loft...

Looking for some advice and guidance from the plastering experts :) Trying to prep what will become our utility room. The whole room needs a skim but its mainly the ceiling I'm concerned about. 1. Where I've removed a partitioned wall there's a depth miss match of about 3-5mm where there is...

Hi all, I've made some alterations to our annex bedroom and the more I think about it I worry that I would have needed some permission. Originally I thought the changes were minor enough not to warrant any, but now I'm thinking maybe I should. I've had a look on the planning portal site but...

Hi, Getting to our garden through our sliders we have to use one step. This is fine. We want to replace the sliders with Aluminium Bi-Folds. We've just been quoted and i've noticed that the spec of the door is low threshold and no weather rating. As the threshold from inside to outside is not...

I'm not sure what to do here but I've recently lifted and binned 270mm of insulation and relaid 100mm with the intentions of putting a further 200mm down shortly. Previously my electric cables laid on top of the plaster board (running over the joists) and covered by the 270mm insulation. I've...