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Most of my heating system is 22mm flow and return pipes with 8mm feeding each radiator. What would be the effect of feeding some new radiators with 15mm pipe? The new boiler is an Ideal Isar HE35 combi.

I am going to lay some water pipes in the concrete floor. There is some sticky stuff you need to wrap round the pipe to stop the concrete corroding the copper pipe. What is it, where can I buy it?

I am having some alterations done - Knocking 2 rooms together to make one big kitchen. Do the building regulations state that I must have some sort of mechanical extraction? There are opening windows in the room and a back door? The rest of the work is being done to comply with the...

I am planning to lay new floor boards and I would like to leave the boards exposed (stained and varnished). Has anyone had any experience of invisible nailing the boards throught the tongue into the joists? I don't want rows of nails showing? Also if I get new boards from a timber yard will...

We want to install some chunky kitchen shelves, but we want a clean look without ugly brackets. Does anyone know of a suppier of shelving systems with hidden brackets that can take a heavy load of a kitchen stuff??? I have seen some that slot onto sort of rods that are attached to the wall...

I am about to replace my central heating boiler. It is a combi boiler and I would like to site it in the en-suite bathroom. Is this possible or is it against building regs, even if it is in zone 3?

I am about to take on a builder for some work on my house. Does any know of a source of a standard building contract for us both to sign.

Which shall I get? With low voltage can the transformer go in the cieling void? Will it conk out and require me to lift carpets/boards to replace it? Will it make a constant annoying huummmmmm noise? Can any one point out the relative benefits please?

I am ready to replace my boiler some time soon. Often when I have mentioned this I am told "Do it quick, because the regs are changing and you will be forced to buy an expensive condensing boiler". This usually comes from someone who wants to either sell me or install a new heating system so I...

I am installing a quarry tile floor in my garden room using some reclaimed quarry tiles. The floor area is approx 27sq/m and I intend to lay the tiles on a bed of mortar 1/2" thick. How do I calculate how much sand/cement to buy?

I have a narrow (3') wide chimney breast in my dining room. The fireplace is a dodgy affair consisting of two wonky brick walls about 4'6" apart with a thin steel beam between them that is supporting the chimney (up the above 3 storeys). I would like to narrow the fireplace and put a...

Had our new log burner installed on Friday. Last night we tried it out for the first time. Chopped up some old bits of timber I had lying about the garage and off we went. Shortly after we lit the fire it filled the house with awful fumes. The stove is connected to a brand new flue...

I have some plain metal shades for walls lights that fasten to the wall. Anyone got any ideas where can I get some simple light fittings that I can fasten to the wall. They need to be quite slim to fit behind the shades and have right angle brackets so that the bulb goes verticle.

I am knocking a breakfast room and kitchen through into one room. Also I will be replacing the door that leads from the kitchen through to the lounge. I would like to use a plank ledged door to fit in with the rest of the cottage but will this satisfy the building regs? The door opens into...

I am using metal flush boxes for the switches, behind wall lights and sockets for my loung re-wiring. I know that the Earth wire in the switches should be connected to the earth terminal in the metal box. Should there also be an earth wire connected to the earth terminal for the wall lights...

I need to chase in my new wiring before the plasterer comes to re-skim the walls. Is a sand/cement/lime mix OK to use? Is that what the ready made bags of "browning" are? If OK should I use sharp sand or builders sand?

The lighting circuit has a 6amp MCB (1) The wall lights/switches are connected via 10amp junction boxes (is this OK?). (2) What size connector strip should I use to connect the wall lights to the cable at the wall. I can buy 3, 5, 10 or 30amp ??????