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Went to B&Q and bought a Pereti Chrome Effect Single Wall Light to replace old 70s style bathroom light fitting. Switch on power took of old fitting, wired up new light fitting correct to wiring diagram. Switch on power switch on light ''Not working'' . Tried another bulb, no joy. Technical...

I have bought a wall light to connect up to the wall in a newly built extension. The electrician left two grey cables sticking out of the wall for this purpose. The two grey cables are I assume on a loop, the wires inside the grey cable are live and are covered up with a blue electrical tape...

my fault andymet87 I assummed that a freeview box has two co-ax cables coming out if it, if it is a 'recording/pause live tv/record one side while watch another' box. I havent bought the box yet, still shopping around, sky+ has two cables and i think freesat does too, so i assumed...

Thanks for advice, thats what must be wrong at my mums house too. Just a cheap splitter must need to buy a mains one there too. one tv works ok and the other has poor snowy picture quality. If the freeview box has recording facility and therefore has two leads is it as simple as just buying a...

How do you connect up two freeview TV to a digital Ariel without getting any loss of picture/sound etc.

large sheets of plywood for floorboards and then I screwed down sheets of plywood over the top of that, I hoped that screwing down a sheet over the drop (4ft before the drop and 4th after the drop) would remove some of the dip but it is still present , you can feel it under your feet.

the drop would be a tile thinkness, 7-10mm, both floors are wooden

My dining room and kitchen has been knocked into one large kitchen and I intend to floor tile across the new entire floor space now exposed. what I have discovered is that the old dining room floor was slightly higher than the old kitchen floor, this means when I start tiling from one side of...

cheers agile, forgive me for this but, whats the difference between a 15-50-15-60 pump and is the boiler a good choice 61sqft semi house all but 2 are double rads

not getting a boiler because of this,i am getting a new extension put onto the house and the old boiler is 15years old and being replaced completly. new pipe work, tank, pump the lot. I got 15-20 kw from this web site http://www.warmflow.co.uk/indoor_he_boilers.php i reckon this is...

Central heating boiler and pump size Does anyone know what size of central heating pump is needed to drive 13-14 radiators? Does anyone know what size of central heating boiler is needed to drive 13-14 radiators? At present the rads upstairs do not get the same heat as the downstairs...

I have recently bought a small house, the bathroom is 5ft by 5ft very small , there is an old cast iron bath that is the full lenght of the wall, i am taking it out and installing a new bath, where can u buy one

Repairing flashing on a flat roof, which has come away from the wall I am going to use 'mortar'. To buy mortar in the local DIY gaint, where would i find it and is it simply called 'mortar'.

The is a repeating strange clicking sound coming from the dash board , beyond where the speedo is. you can hear it better when you stand outside the car and put your ear to where the base of the driver sides wiper motor arm is, i dont think it is the wiper motor as this is in the centre of the...

Hi Richard, Good to hear from you again,what would this section do without you. I have a few hair line cracks where the join of the stud wall meets the solid block wall, my wife painted the wall yesterday and the cracks ( maybe for the min) dissappeared into the paint. Maybe not as serious...

I am not a plaster , but i had some plastering done recently over a stud wall made up of plaster board and wood, the heat in a room can expand the wood behind the plaster board and therefore crack the plaster, so i was told by the plasterer, he said that if this happens use a product called '...

Cheers, Taking all the information above, can anyone tell me what sort of money we are talking for this work? I have a man coming out on saturday to quote me, and i simply dont want to be taken for a ride (on his digger)

Just what you were saying there forestboy worrys me 'I would just hit the wrong lever by mistake and it would do something completely unexpected and knock a tree over or something' If i was to dig it myself my worry would be that right at next doors boundary line is a sunroom attached to...

Other factors for this quote are: access to the back of the house will be from the front driveway to the side of the house to the back garden , gap between house and garage is about 12ft , not limited on height? no overhead restrictions. There Are no underground services to dig round...

Are you sure alastairreid after a couple of hours you get the hang of it, someone told me it was hard to master. It would worry me knocking downa wall or something. although your right I would enjoy it