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A 13amp circuit is only capable of running a 2kw appliance. That's why most electric fires are only rated upto 2kw, to make them more or less plug & play with a 3 pin plug. Same with a kettle. If you want an electric shower, you are going to have to bite the bullet and dip your hand in your...

Hate Worcester's with a passion. I personally swear by Ideal logic boilers, great to work inside, clean tidy boilers and Ideal have great customer service.

It would need to be on a separate 40 amp circuit breaker with the correct size cable to withstand the current.

Can you not just move the gully to a new position, like the side of the house and re-route the waste pipe?

Depending on where your drain runs, and if the drain is shared with neighbors all in a row, you may need to get permission to build over it or to make alterations to the drain underground.

Thanks. Just for your visualization, this is the ground floor breast, in a full length external gable wall that is only buttressed by the front and rear 90 degree walls at a internal measurement of 5.5m. I presume just a building notice would suffice?

So in summary, really every chimney breast removal should have Building regs approval and a structural survey

The way I understood it was that building regs approval was only needed if a portion of the structure was to be left in place and needed adequate support put in place OR if removing any part of the structure interfered with anything load bearing. Please somebody correct me if I have understood...

In what sense if you could elaborate please. It isn't bearing the weight of anything

Hi guys. The wife & I have just bought our council house and we are starting renovations on it to bring it up to scratch. The first job on the list is to gut the kitchen and modernize it. What we have planned is to remove an old breast within the kitchen (on a gable, not connecting to...