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I'm adding an en-suite to a first floor bedroom and the new soil pipe will need to connect into the existing drain on my property. I've contact the water company to find out if the drain running down my driveway is private or public, they told me they had no records of the drains other than...

I went away without setting the alarm so thought I'd use the app to set it. However when trying a full arm and not being at the house to open and close the front door it doesn't arm. Will it arm after the set time or does the door have to be closed to set it? I've used the part arm option for...

I've run some 8 core cable to PIRs and door contacts. In a couple of areas the PIRs and contacts are close to one another, so I ran a single 8 core to cover both. The PIR is 6 wire, the contacts are 4 wire. Can I share a positive and negative between a PIR and a contact, then use the 4 cores...

Hi I'm going to run the soil and waste from our bathroom in the loft area and want to check if there are certain things I should or shouldn't be doing. I've attached a very basic picture showing the routing of the soil and waste pipes. The soil pipe is 110mm, the wastes from the...

I've got a Viessman Vitodens 100W system boiler and a 300l Albion unvented DHW cylinder. The heating is wet underfloor downstairs and radiators upstairs. The ground floor covering is engineered floorboards. The user instructions for the boiler and cylinder are next to useless when it comes to...

I want BT to come out and reconnect the drop cable on my house. My router will be located on the ground floor roughly in the centre of the house, ideally I'd want the master socket close to this. I could put in some suitable cable to run from the drop cable junction box where it comes into...

I have a new oven, it's a 2.35kw single oven. The manual says it must be hard wired on an all poles isolating switch. This seems a bit over kill for a 2.35kw oven and the old one was wired on a 13amp plug. I could get a 45a switch with 13amp socket for trhe microwave like...

I have a small leak from a flexible hose which takes the hotwater supply into the shower system. The hose connects to the column on the back of the shower system and then goes under the floor to the supply. The leak appears to be coming from either where the braided hose is crimped to the...

Under my house is a void about 4ft high, accessible through a trapdoor and some steps down. I'm looking to relocate some electrical equipment currently in a cupboard in a spareroom (which soon won't be spare for much longer) and I'm struggling for a new location. So I wondered if it's...

I have a Honeywell thermostat with a dial to set the temp and a Potterton timer and they are wired like this. Can someone tell me if this is volt free switching and what the wires do. The top is the diagram illustrated inside the timer, the bottom one is the actual wiring.

I removed the old skirtings to be replaced with some new floor matching skirtings, but the new ones are not as high as the originals. Behind one section of the old skirtings is a thin gap which could be skimmed to level it with the wall, but the old plaster behind is quite dry and dusty...

I have some new switches to replace the tired old switches in the hallway and upstairs landing. The downstairs switch is a 2 gang 2 way, upstairs is 1 gang 2 way. I've looked at the existing wiring and am wondering if someone can fill in the blanks based on the diagram below, I'd like to...

Can anyone tell me if the Push Button Coded Door Locks are secure enough for Insurance companies? I'm thinking of fitting one of these from Screwfix on my garage side entrance door which is accessible from outside...

Hi Can someone explain (or point somewhere that does) what a Volt Free Output is and how it works. Is this the same as a Volt Free Contact or Volt Free Switch? Thanks

I want to do some pre wiring ready for an electrician to make the final connections on my UFH. I am hoping that it will be suitable to use a nearby mains spur using a 30amp J-Box with 2.5mm TE running to a FCU (or RCB/FCU combined, it's an old fashioned fused box unit) which will then...

What rating fused connection unit should I use to run a lighting spur from a mains socket to handle a max of 250w lights? Should I run 2.5mm from the mains socket to the FCU and then 1.5mm from the FCU to the light socket? Thanks

Does anyone have a lighting wiring diagram for a 2 gang switch controlling 2 independant ceiling lights from a std lighting loop Thanks

Hi, I have 3 individual recessed spotlights, mains, GU10 type. They have a chrome fitting which the bulb pushes through and into the ceiling cavity. The mini junction box on these has a L + N but no earth terminal and there is no earthing point on the metal fitting. The instructions make...

Hi, I'm in the process of putting a plan together to run wiring around the house for a pc network, multiroom audio and video. The cables will be Cat5e, RG6 and speaker cables. Is there anything specific I need to be aware of for running these between walls (hollow plasterboard dividing walls)...