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My other concern is, my wall is only 76mm thick, is there a certain spec on how thick the fire door casing has to be?

its no issue i can fit a casing and frame, I just didn't want to spend the money if it wasn't necessary that was all. Would you recommend a casing with a base as well or not?

It was my dad and colleagues that did the extension when he owned the house. Like I say it must of been at least 15 years ago so I'm not sure when the building regs were in place for fire doors

Even if the wall isn't 'fire proofed'? The original door thats there now was fitted about 15 years ago so if I left that in place and just draught sealed around it would my house insurance still be invalid? My other thought was converting the garage into a habitable room, then I wouldnt need to...

Hi all, I'm looking to replace the door between the garage and kitchen. We've got a bit of an odd setup, we've split the garage in half with just a stud wall to allow a pantry and downstairs toilet on one side and still keep a garage/storage area (no car will be stored here) on the other side...

We're starting work on the porch and have a very dated solid wood door for the internal door. We'll be looking to get a composite door fitted for the external door but we're a little unsure how to go about the internal front door. The porch is single skin brick so didn't know if we were able...

Might be a stupid question but... I’ve got a can of wickes flooring spray adhesive left over from when the carpet was fitted. i’m in the process of making an office and needed to glue wool felt to cork backing, would it be ok for this or would it ruin the felt or cork?

Hi, I'm looking at fitting a heavy pendant light, about 5-8kg...the fixing bar is long but doesnt span the 2 joists, so i'd fix into 1 joist but the other fixing would go into plaster. What would be the best type of fixing to use for this?

So heres the socket tester, i’ve coloured in the lights as i’ve got a mate having a look at the electrics at the moment. The middle light was flashing

Yeah i’ve already gone round all the sockets and put the wires back in again. when you say the 2 sockets do you mean the ones that are working? From what i can gather i’ve got 3 sockets off the ring that are working

there is a few but they’re under the bathroom tiled floor. I could remove the cover but dont really know what i’m doing under there. So on the 20A its a ring not a radial from what i can gather now

ah right! I get you with that. i’ve just gone round all sockets this morning, taken them all off and fitted them back on again. Checked for loose wiring and sad to say i cant find anything obvious. i’ve worked out 4 out of the 17 sockets on that circuit are working and 13 aren’t

that makes sense...i’ve just found out 1 socket thats in that circuit works, so surely it would mean that the next socket along is the fault?

I’ve checked and all the neutrals are in the sockets, what about a faulty socket? or could it be that an earth has touched the socket box?

no its a 20A. I’ll check out the sockets and see what i can find. Could it be that a neutral is touch the earth?

I’ve narrowed it down to circuit of sockets on a single breaker, so you reckon take of the face plates and have a look?

No nothing really, today all I’ve done is tape up an old arial wire, filled the hole with expanding foam. We then plugged the hoover in and noticed then that the socket wasn’t working

Hi all, Today i’ve been filling in a old arial socket thats not used anymore. I’ve come to use the hoover and all of a sudden some of the plug sockets aren’t working but some are, I’ve check the CU and no breakers have tripped which has confused me. I’ve plug in a socket tester and its...

Yeah i did think that as my next option, i just thought if i could buy it ready done its easier isn't it

I'll see what i can find cheers