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Hi, I've been totally revamping our kitchen and now after 18 months am nearing the finish. I have just laid some Vysa Film radiant heating film under the laminate floor. The total load will be 1260 watts, by my calaulations that makes it 5.25 amps. Would I be OK to use .75mm cable to connect...

Obviously, I was trying to type SCREED, not screen!!

Hi, I need to cap off a couple of radiator pipes which are currently buried in a screen floor. I will gently trace them til they're a couple of inces down, then should I cap them with soldered copper, compression or plastic push fit? I will then protect them from screen filling. Thanks a lot -...

Leaking all the time apparently, trouble is that my Dad lives 150 miles away, I think the answer would be to replace the copper with plastic pipe and to check the joints at the same time. He's going to get the original plumber back and take it up with him!

My Dad had a shower installed 9 years ago. he has recentlly had the shower cubicle retiled and thinks the company doing this have damaged the pipe work in the process of removing the tiles, as he now has water coming through the ceiling. The company who removed the tiles clain the problem has...

We are currently converting a utility room into a downstairs wc. in our VERY old cottage The floor is quarry tiled. I have fitted a 'back to wall' cistern and am now onto the pan. The predrilled securing holes in the base of the pan are at such an angle as to be useless. Can anyone recommend an...

My daughter and the love of her life have just moved into a house built in the '70's. The house has no internal doors downstaris, so I said I'd help fit them where required. The size seems to be a problem, the doors required are mostly 80x220cms, in B&Q and Homebase terms, this is not...

Hi everyone, you've been really useful to me in the past, so here goes again! We've recently done away with a groundfloor wall between kitchen and downstairs bathroom with the intention of creating a larger kitchen. We now have various pipes in the middle of the new large room - the old bath...

Thanks all of you, that's a great help. Chris

Hi, I have to move a radiator which involves lifting one floorboard the length of the room and passing two 15mm pipes across/through about 20 joists! Is this a problem? Am I OK to cut a 15mm deep slot in the top of each joist and rest the pipes in the slot? I will lag the pipes slightly to...

Ours is a detached bungalow, situated off a major A road and about 20m from each of our neighbours. If the answer is to 'go to town' on the water company, then that's no problem, but before I start on them, I'd like to be absolutely sure of my ground - do they have an obligation to find the...

Hi, my internal main stop-cock handle has snapped off and I need to turn off the tap in the road. But, the last time the water company looked for it they couldn't find it anywhere, and left. That was a couple of years ago. Does the water company have a responsibility to find this tap or to...

Thanks Softus, not too sure about 'AFAIK', can you explain, or not on the forum?! Thanks anyway, it didn't make much sense to me either.

Is it true that coffee grains are responsible for more blocked drains than tea leaves? This is a preventative question in that we drink real coffee, made with ground beans and although we bin most of the used grains, there are quite a few that end up down the drain. Is this a time bomb?

We've just moved into a house with a combi/condensing boiler. Not had any dealings with these before, much prefer the old fashioned way! When the pressure drops, what is actually happening and why? When I 'bleed' the system back up to 1.5 or 2 bars, what am I doing? Am I letting air in or out...

Magic! Thanks loads, we can now look forward to a romantic evening, rather than sitting under a spotlight! Chris

Thanks loads, I'll do it in daylight tomorrow and let you know the glad tidings! Chris

Hi, into the rear of the standard light switch come one 3 core wire and one 2 core wire. The 3 core (red,blue,yellow) is wired as follows: red to L1, blue to L3, yellow to L4. The 2 core (red, black) is wired as follows: red to L4, black to L3. Hope that's sufficient information and thanks...

Hi, my first post! I'm a fairly competent DIYer, particularly in the plumbing area. Electrics I treat with a great deal of respect! I'm trying to replace a normal 2 way light switch with a 2 way dimmer and am a bit stuck. The rear of the 2 way normal switch has 4 terminals - L1, L2, L3, L4. L2...