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Hello, I have just had installed a Nest 3rd Gen thermostat so I can control my heat remotely, on my 12 year old Worcester Bosch 40CDi Combi Boiler. Everything appears to be working just fine apart from it seems the heating pump runs continuously 24/7. Im pretty sure this should not happen...

Evening all, I bought an industrial unit last year and moved my engineering workshop into it during the summer. we renovated the building completely which included putting a brand new suspended ceiling up in the area above the mezzanine floor. The total ground floor space of the unit is about...

I 4 toilets which run off one single ducted fan in the top of the building. What I want to do is put occupancy sensors in all the toilets so when someone enters the lights go on only in that toilet and so does the common fan, all for a pre set time. If I use normal PIRs would I be right in...

A couple of years ago I did an extension on my house. While doing that I ran cable to two waterproof junction boxes on the outside wall in the garden. One was going to be for lighting, and the other for garden power. The other end at the comsumer unit is not on the RCD side as there isnt any...

Hi guys, I posted a msg a while ago about some dodgy wiring at a mates house. Since then the spark has been back and told my mate all is fine and he shouldnt worry. The Hob is on it own circuit direct to the fuseboard and there is a 45a switch in a cupboard to isolate it. My issue is more...

Trying to find somewhere that does Chrome effect sink waste pipe. Any ideas? I have bougt one of these freestanding sink units and it comes supplied with a small length of chrome waste pipe, but not enough! Cant find anywhere to get it. any idea greatly appreciated. All best Neil

A good friend of mine has recently had a new extension put on his house and part of this work involved obviously electrical work. However the problem I am about to point on we cannot be sure if it was like this before the extension was built. Anyway the upshot of it is that when his wife was...

I am about to lay a new Patio at the rear of my house. The way the land lies and indeed the way its already been dug it would be much easier for me to slope the Patio towards the house rather than conventionally away and place the Acco drains along the boundary of the house. Can you please tell...

I am sure this has been asked many times, but cant find this on a search. I have downlights installed pretty much all over the top floor of my house thus into the loft. Insulation is layed with gaps where the downlights are. Just looking at possibilities, but IF I wanted to board out my loft how...

Good afternoon, just after bit of advice really........ I have a room which is approx 28sq mtrs in size and want to lay a solid wood floor in it. I have purchased the flooring already which has come in random planks of tongue and groove oak. The floor it is to be laid on is a floating...

Putting some downlighters in my ceiling and have a couple of questions:- 1) The terminal blocks on the actual light fitting are too small to accept 2 cables (cable in and the one back out again to next light). Is it acceptable to use a terminal block in the ceiling for the 2 wires to go into...

I am just doing the final bits now to what has been a somewhat eventfull extension project. The new bit has all be wired etc etc. My original kitchen wall that has now been knocked out housed all my sockets for the kitchen. These are currently just rolled and tied up on the ceiling. I am now at...

The council have to come out to see a test on my new stack pipe I have installed on my extension. What does this involve? Do I just cap off the inlet in the manhole and fill the stack pipe with water and cross my fingers while the council man looks on??? Thanks for your help.

Ive understood the bit that I need an rcd for my underfloor heating, I plan on installing the Warm-Up wire type. But do I need to insall another rcd or does the one on the consumer unit count? What I wanted to do was spur off the socket ring main to power the underfloor heating and thermostat...

I am putting a wet room in my firt floor en suite bathroom. My problem is that the waste outlet is about 3 joists away from the stck pipe. Am I allowed to cut 38mm holes in the joists and if so where abouts do I have to put them to keep within current regulations?? Many thanks in advance for...

More questions! Hope u lot are not sick of me yet :( ok my old exterior wall is now an interior wall due to the addition of an extension. Either end there is knock thros been done and as a consequence until I put the door linings in I can see straight through the cavity. What I want to know...

Firslty thanks to everyone who has replied to my previous posts, you have all been most helpful!! I am running 25mm 3 core armoured from a 100A switch that is sited in my meter box to my consumer unit that is about 10 metres away. Just thinking ahead I see problems due to the sheer size...

My plans that are passed define I use 100mm Glass Fibre in between the joists and overlay the joists with 150mm in the loft. Firslty I hate using glass fibre (as I am sure you all do), and secondly I wish to put some floorboards up there for storage. ANyone know of a product or products I can...

Having a meter moved soon and this will make the meter too far from the consumer unit for normal tails. So I am having a 100amp switch fitted to the electric meter and run a cable from that switch to the consumer unit. I have already been told that the cable from the switch to the consumer...

Is there any regulations on the height of new sockets in an extension? Or am I ok to make them the same height as the sockets in the original house?