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Thanks, he’s getting the kitchen redone either later this year or next year so will either hat a new gas hob then, or get an electrician to put in proper cooker sockets Thanks everyone

Thanks all. Am leaving gas hob in for now, changed the junction box for a socket.

If I buy a replacement oven that comes with a 3 pin plug and is designed just to plug into a normal socket, can I just change the junction box with the 1.5 T&E going into it into a single socket, then just plug my oven in? Scenario 2: If I also wanted to get rid of the gas hob, I can also buy...

Kitchen sockets are on 32amp fuse with 63amp RCD

The kitchen sockets, must be a spur from one of them

Currently the 1.5 T&E goes from the round junction box at the back of the kitchen unit to somewhere, can’t really tell without removing all the units. The plate on the wall that has the thick 4 mm cable to it, has 1 cable coming into a double socket that the washing Maschine is plugged into...

Hi, sons old inbuilt oven packed up and I said I’d help him for a new one. What I wasn’t expecting is for it to be wired into a junction box that has a cable connected to somewhere that isn’t even 2.5mm, looks more like lightning cable. Looking at the fuse box there is a thick cable not sure...

Baxi coming out Tuesday, thanks for the advice

Attached is a crude drawing showing the attic, the blue being the accessible part, and the red is behind the plasterboard. I‘ve just drilled a couple of holes (green mark on pic) so I can see the attic floor behind, zero insulation. There’s a date on the Velux windows saying 1992

Boiler was here when we moved in, is guarantee transferrable? If so, I’ll get my son to phone them up

At his house. Here are more pics of the attic, loads of condensation on inside of both windows

British Gas coming out on the 11th

Further observation, he said he had to turn the rad knob to 64 to get the radiators hot, if I turn on the hot tap, the radiator temp plummets to around 50ndegrees before going back up when I turn the tap off. Don’t think this is normal, then again I’ve never stood there watching my own boiler...

Hi, at sons house. Setting his water to 40 c it’s too hot to put your hand under, setting it to 39c and it’s Luke warm. is this diy fixable or do we need an engineer? thanks

He only wants to use it for storage, but would rather be able to walk on floorboards rather than floorboards having insulation on top of them (mind you, that could be the cheapest solution), along the lines of what Old Duffer did in post 9, could he not get some sort of thermal board and simply...

I got a nice thermal camera from my wife for xmas

Hi, son bought a mid terraced house a couple of years ago. The attic has been converted into a room, see attached pic (estate agents pic before he bought house), but it wasn’t listed as with a loft conversion as it isn’t up to standards. Surveyor also said it breaks various rules (especially...

Thanks. Most of my roof isn’t felted hence loads of fresh air circulating and no smell. I‘ll get someone in after Xmas.

Hi all. In May 2019 I contacted the council as my wife saw a rat on my neighbours doorstep, and I saw one coming out of a road drain across the road. A few weeks later another neighbour said they had had rats in their attic and couldn’t understand how they got there, and pest control sorted it...

Are all hybrid polymer sealants as good as each other? After black with anti mould. Screwfix no nonsense x8 £9.99 OB1 £14.99 Stixall £6.29 Evo Stik The dogs *****. £9.99 thanks