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Details of the white boxes and circuits attached. There are three cables that go into the white trunking underneath. I had wondered (not being an electrician) if it would just be possible to take the cover off the consumer unit, dismount it, and screw it back to the board a little higher up...

I've been asked to build a cabinet for a consumer unit. It's not the prettiest! I've got a question for anyone who's done this before, or who has seen a similar setup before -- the two wires on the right which dip down below the top of the architrave are going to be a pain in the arse. I can do...

I was advised by a guy in the shop to get 6mm wedi board for tiling a shower cubicle. After attaching the wedi to studwork on one of the walls I called wedi just to check and they advised that it should be 10mm minimum on studwork. The studs are sizeable, closely spaced, and very well fixed. Am...

Yes that's exactly it -- there are general guidelines for wedi here: https://justwedi.co.uk/pdf/AE.Building%20Board%20Installation%20Guide.pdf -- but it may be different for Jacko. Here it says that the screw should go to a minimum of 35mm, but I was advised 50mm elsewhere and went for that...

Sorry, didn't see this just now so it's probably too late -- I was advised to have the screws go at least 50mm into the wall, so I went with 70mm to be sure.

I had to use 6mm but spoke to a tiler and they said it would be ok -- the narrow size of the space was a constraint. I'd been worried that the thickness of the adhesive would built it out too much for the tray to fit, but it ended up working out ok. Anything thicker and I'd have had to bring...

Went with this and it worked great, thanks!

I'm looking to attach wedi boards to a brick wall. Is it ok to use beads of OB1 or similar on the back and then go through with brown rawl plugs?-- or is it better to use a proper tile adhesive on the back?

Sure thing. It's something like this, where all of the top wires running horizontally are above a ceiling. Sockets 1 and 2 are on opposite sides of a wall. So the connection to 3 would be above the ceiling at the point circled in red, and there would be nothing coming down into the left most...

I'll be removing wires which come down from the ceiling, and making the new connection in the void between joists before installing a new ceiling. Will that be ok?

Thanks very much for this, I appreciate your help. The actual runs of the cables won't change. Both wires won't reach to the third box, unfortunately. Is there a circuit diagram that shows the appropriate configuration of wires for attaching the two incoming to the wire running to the third?

I'm looking to remove the two outlets circled here in black and retain the third. Is it the case that I can use an appropriate wago box to connect either of the two incoming wires to the wire that runs to the third outlet? Looks simple but I'm not an electrician and just want to make sure I'm...

It looks brutally heavy, it's true. I'm sure I know your answer to this but is there any chance it would work for me to head up on a ladder and and install some more fixings along the length of it? I live somewhere pretty remote and getting a scaffold out there is going to be a huge pain...

I'm putting in a new ground floor bathroom and will need to run a waste pipe out for the toilet. The soil pipe outside is cast iron and goes all the way up to the roof. Is it possible to remove a section of it so I can splice in a PVC waste tee, rather than removing the whole thing and replacing...

That's useful, thank you very much. A rep from the company came round today and explained where they'd want to install their own box, right next to the consumer unit. It's just the route for the cable that's under discussion -- really I'm just checking that I'm ok to get the cable to the right...

My wife bought an electric car and it comes with a free charger and installation; unfortunately the guys doing the installation won't touch anything if it involves a ladder, since that apparently requires extra training (!), and our fuse board is upstairs. I don't want a bunch of trunking all...

Haha maybe it will give the place character! At any rate, any preference regarding the narrower / wider boxing?

It's tied in with wall ties; the structural engineer visited while it was going up and raised no objection. The steel also extends into the wall beyond, and the pier is there to give it a larger base to sit on. Beyond that I couldn't tell you what the builders got up to. I didn't know that about...

It is, yes

It wasn't my decision unfortunately -- would have been better to use two beams alongside each other to reduce the drop into the room, in my opinion, but it is what it is. I reckon the engineer massively overcompensated for what the actual load is, but that's not my job and I can't complain.