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Hi folks Not sure if this should be in here or building our garden, but this seemed most logical to me. I have just put up a TV in our outdoor room. The previous owners built themselves a soundproof karaoke room It's about 1ft from the house. I'm looking for advice for running ethernet and...

I would assume most folk had no idea of the change until they started running radio adds a couple of months ago and various companies started taking out full page news paper ads for their smoke alarms. Yes as the point of the post was to ask if me as the home owner who is not an electrician...

Thanks Funnily enough none of the companies who are posting flyers though the door or running full page adds in the papers can be bothered to answer their emails. Battery powered units seem to be about £80 a pop at the minute, but I'd like to find out if i need an electrician to replace...

I assume most folk will chuck up sealed battery usints to replace their existing £10 from tesco and never tested smoke alarms Be hilarious if the councils did get swamped with building warrant requests though.

Private rented and new-build homes must already meet these standards, but from February they will apply to every home in Scotland, regardless of age or tenure. https://www.gov.scot/news/changes-to-fire-safety-laws/ Last I checked I wasn't living in a tower block with cheap illegal cladding, so...

Sadly not the case From the scottish government website "From February all homeowners will be required to have interlinked alarms under legislation brought forward after the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017. These alarms significantly reduce casualties by alerting everybody in a property to a...

Hi All With the upcoming change to the law in scotland that says all smoke alarms need to be interlinked looming on the horizon I've been looking around at interlinked systems and Im wondering. as it is I have mains powered smoke alarms in most of the locations covered by the regs When I...

Yeah that's true. But what I might do if the inverter/ generation meter support mqtt use home assistant to trigger a Shelly or sonoff relay when there is excess solar. I know the fit is gone & current export tarriffs are around 5p/KW so it makes sence to use as much as I can Daily gas usage...

That's what I'm thinking. But either way I need to get power to the immersion which is currently disconnected. I assume the solar controllers like the iboost or Eddi just get fitted in line and then use a CT on the main cable and just switch on the immersion when the inverter starts exporting...

Thanks :) The heater in my tank is rated 2.5-3kw so i know its on the upper end of 13a. The tank is a 250l and sits next to the boiler in the garage so atleast its not in a poorly ventilated cupboard I don't think there are any spare channels left in the CU (although the labeling is a mess)...

Hi Sorry this is a two parter... We recently got a new boiler, went from a combi back to a system boiler and tank, The installer didn't connect up the immersion heater as "nobody uses them nowadays" Due to one of the thermostats being DOA, he got a Worcester engineer out to check it over...

Got it done today my dad bright over his DeWalt hammer. We got though hough the just inch of wall from where it fit stuck lady week using the 12mm bit. Then drilled from the outside back in with an 18mm bit. No idea what's going on but it hit something about an inch from being an the essay...

Been able to drill out with the 12mm as a pilot from the two upstairs rooms (like hit knife though butter) with minimal damage to the pebbledash by backing off and showing down when I felt I was getting near. Then back in the way with the 20mm where I needed more than one cable. Sadly only have...

Not much to see. Textured wallpaper in the inside. Harling wall on the outside. No obvious lines. There's an air brick below where I was trying to drill, maybe about 30/40cm below. Looking though that just looks like 2 layers of breeze block

Hi Not sure if this is the right part of the forum but it seemed the most sensible. I'm running network cables in the house and the easiest route to a couple of the bedrooms is out the back wall of the office though conduit. I'm trying to get the hole though the wall. Initially tried right in...

Securing and insulating may be tricky it's already clips to & bottom of the pipe box, not sure how to do anything inside the box? Also it's not 10mm it's 1/4" or 6mm tubing after the t junction at the sink.

Comes off at. Sorry I'm on my mobile and hadn't spotted the autocorrect typo...

I moved a couple of months ago and finally got round to running a water line for our American style fridge freezer. As the fridge is freestanding the pile 1/4" pipe comes off at a T junction under the sink under the unit to a pipe box in the corner of the kitchen, up then along the top of the...

I was guestimsting. Basing on putting the dryer hose into the existing vent last week and my arm disappearing up to the elbow to reach the partially inserted dryer hose, and so assuming that drilling on an angle the 460mm bit may not be long enough. Last night I measured the window ledges, they...

The wall is breeze block, cavity then brick & harling. Looking at the window the wall is approx 30cm. Gone back to high school maths that puts the drill should reach 42cm. As long as the walls not any thicker. Wife's still reticent about me doing this myself and wants me to hire a spark. Will...