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Hi, I have had a wall knocked down between my kitchen and dinning room and I'm in the process of putting radiators back as I had to remove them as part of the demolition. I still have a large double - probably 1.5m wide - radiator in the dinning room and I plan to put a tall radiator...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. I've drained my central heating system after ensuring that the cold water supply to the boiler is off. I have an unvented cylinder system. I opened the bleed valves to the radiators and it took a while but it seemed like all the water had drained out. I needed...

Hi, I’ve bought and installed a shower screen with a small fixed panel and a hinged, swinging door. Installation was fine and everything seemed to be in as expected. The problem is that the hinge mechanism seems to leak – if water hits the hinge directly then it runs underneath the hinge...

Hi, Hopefully I can explain this properly. I am going to put up a new stud wall around 1150mm in length and I plan to install an 800mm quadrant shower cubicle on part of it. I will use cement board and then tile the shower area. The remaining part of the wall i want to paint so it will need a...

Hi all, There are numerous posts on this topic but having read them, I'm still not 100% clear on the correct way to approach this specific job. I want to install a shower mixer bar on an internal breeze block wall. I plan to use copper pipes with a soldered elbow joint and would like to get...

Hi, I have an odd situation. I live in a 1st floor maisonette with our own garden at the back of the house. All of the plumbing for the house is at the front but I would like to fit an outside tap to the back of the house for watering the garden. I can't run pipework through the house...

Hi - apologies, I've found the answer to this post here so please ignore the below: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16328 ~~~~~ Hi, We recently had some work done on our kitchen and the end result is that the kitchen sink is now directly above a double socket that is used...

Hi, I've had a search on the forums to see if this has been posted recently and couldn't find anything but I'm wanting to install two new wall lights in the bedroom. There isn't anything there at present and they will not be close to any sockets from the ring main. Is it acceptable under...

Hi, I'm using a tile saw to cut kitchen tiles. The tiles are mosaic effect as in they are 10x15cm tiles with raised mosaic squares with white grout lines.. i.e. they're like the mosaic tile grids you can get but are already grouted. When I use the saw, the water runs over the tile I am...

Hi - I had an electrician install a new consumer unit and 45amp cooker curcuit. There is a junction (like socket but without plug holes) and this is connected to a fused switch above the worktop level. The idea is that the oven would be hardwired to the socket and controlled by the switch -...

Hi, I recently removed old tiles from my kitchen and along with the tiles came a lot of plaster and render so in places on my walls, I now have areas of exposed brick up to about 1.5 meteres square. I was going to use patching plaster or similar but a friend recommended using plasterboard...

Hi - a bulb in one room stopped working and blew the circuit breaker. I replaced the original bulb with a working one but it still didn't work (after resetting the circuit breaker). I took a bulb out of a light that was working to be sure and put this in the blown socket and this also didn't...

Hi, Not sure where this post should go in the forum but hopefully I've got it right. I've taken a radiator down for painting and had to take the bracket that supports the radiator down too. I tried putting it back on the wall last night but ran into a strange problem. The radiators have...

Hi, I'm looking to create to new double sockets by extending the ring from an existing socket on side of the wall. I plan to remove the socket, drill though the wall to the other side and then use this to create the two new sockets. The dodgy diagram below attempts to show what I want to do...

Hi, I'd like to put an extractor fan in the bathroom however there isn't any access to an external wall. The bathroom is on the 1st floor, directly below the loft and a friend suggested simply putting the extractor fan in the ceiling so that moisture is expelled directly into the loft. Is...

Hi, Just moved in to a new flat and the phone lines are a bit messed up. Thre is a BT box in the far corner of the house (furthest away from where the phone wants to be) but it is dead. There is a phone socket in the lounge that works but it is really bad quality. It's not a BT socket but...

Hi, just moved into a new flat and it has a coaxial cable coming in through the wall from the aerial. I'm trying to wire it to a wall mounted socket instead of having loose wire. Thing is, when I wire it up I get a bad signal. If I revert back and put the original plug on the end of the wire...

Hi, I've looked at the posts on the forum but I'm still not clear: if I want to extend a ring to add two new sockets, can I do this within the current regs or do I need to get it certified? I'll have to use a JB or 2 to do this as there is only one socket in the room and it's not feasible...

Hi, I have both wires of the ring mains running under my floor boards. I want to put 2 double sockets in the room, each on a different wall. I understand that I shouldn't really run 2 spurs from a single junction terminal so I need to use two junction terminals. Question: should I put one...