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Hi I'm renovating a 1930s property. All ground floor floors are suspended timber except the kitchen which is (was) concrete. I have just dug this floor up to lay a new insulated floor (I will be insulating under the suspended floors too). My initial thought was to put down a damp proof membrane...

Hi all I'm looking for some advice when replumbing my (ground floor) cloakroom. The room is very limited for space and was part of a larger extension. In the end the builder left the cloakroom unfinished, for various reasons. I am now ripping the existing T+G floor up to put down a plywood base...

Hi All I am about to board my loft - but have hit a snag and wanted some advice. My plan was to run new 150 mm joists parallel to the current ceiling joists. The roof is a trad roof, with purlins from the 60s. The existing ceiling joists are 75 mm. The span of the new joists will be about...

Hi I'm looking for some advice about a covering/sealing a drain gulley (U-bend which then goes into the underground drains) that is inside my conservatory as shown below- please don't mock the plumbing it is on my to do list :? The gulley takes all the house's grey water (Kitchen sink...

Hi everyone i've just been ripping out some old boarding in my loft to have my insulation redone (the boarding was like a very soft thin chipboard or something and couldn't suport a persons weight making it quite dangerous) When I ripped it up I found a significant amount of woodworm in some...

Title says it all really :!: :) I'm planning on putting an outside light up by our front door, is it part P notifiable? I read it as adding a light to an existing circuit but thought I'd check with you lot as the fountain of all knowledge :) Also would it be sensible to have it RCD...

Hi all I am planning to board some of my loft an wanted to check what i need to do with the cable i'm covering. Does it need to be 5cm from both the boards and the ceiling below to avoid the need for earthed sheath? Is there anything else I should be aware of that I haven't considered...

hi all I hope this doesn't cause as much controversey as the last insulation post :wink: We are about to have the insulation redone in our loft. As we are in a concrete floored bungalow all the cable for the house goes through the loft. The current set up is cables draped on top of...

Just slightly curious about silicone sheathed wires. I have some low voltage undercupboard hologens with silicone sheathed flex. I wanted to check that I was okay running them near my hob where it will get quite hot but couldn't find anything in the regs about silicone sheathed, am I missing...

Hi all I have just fitted a set of 5 20W selv halogens from B+Q in my bathroom. Before I get jumped on I know you guys hate halogens, but I wanted selv to save having to cross bond to the shaver outlet which would involve ripping off tiles. I'm also well aware of building regs and will be...

I guess this is a bit of a longshot, but does anyone out there know of anywhere in the milton keynes/buckingham/northampton/bedford area that sells UPVC quadrant? I need some to finish round the internal edges of our bay window. We did have a Trims Ltd nearby but they seem to have shut down and...

Hi all I'm just posting to ask if it is okay to use plastic pipe for drinking water? Me and my girlfriend are slowly renovating our first house and one of the first things we did was put a new kitchen in. My dad has had some experience fitting kitchens so between the two of us we did it...

Hi all I'm just trying to double check all my kitchen wiring is in order before I get building control round to inspect it. My main concern is with my dishwasher wiring in and the spur to my bathroom socket as shown below. I just wanted to check that the area above the worktop counts as...

Hi All, hope this is just a quick one. Is splitting an ariel and/or sky cable with a small junction box sensible or daft? Just chased in my ariel and sky cables down one side of our chimney breast in the lounge, had the room replasteed and redecorated. Now the missus has decided we want the...

Hi everyone I'm back to ask another question of you all. I've got a plasterer coming round later this week to skim my lounge and hallway. So that he can plaster round the sockets I need to take the faces off but want some advice on how to make everything safe. I do have two radial sockets...

Hi Sorry for this, I know you must all be sick of bathroom earthing questions. I have a fairly simple bathroom set up as far as electrics are concerned. Plastic pipe throughout and SELV lighting so no supplimentary bonding issues there. I have an earth free extractor fan in the loft connected...

Hi all, was hoping you might be able to lend a hand. First my system. I've got a TN-C-S system, there is a CU with rewirable cartridge fuses and between the CU and the meter is a 30A/30mA RCBO. I've just fitted 3 new plug sockets and am testing everything. As I've been going down my...

Hi everyone, looking for advice on bonding. My central heating system uses both plastic and metal pipes, so I've bonded all the metal parts but wasn't sure about the bathroom. The bathroom radiator has metal pipes leading into some wooden boxing then turns to plastic. My question is does it...

Hi Sorry this is a similar thread to //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=327713#327713 but slightly different. I'm similarly wiring up some SELV lighting in my kitchen and was trying to work out which cable to use. They were supplied with 0.75mmsq twin flex, similar looking to speaker...