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Anyone care to hazard a guess here? Otherwise I'll leave it a month or so and have a go. Will report back if posts fall flat in the first bit of wind we get!

So far I've run cable for one room, adding double sockets either side of the bed. I could have run a spur off each of the existing sockets for this, but thought it better to include them in the ring main while I was at it. I didn't realise I needed to notify the BCO for such simple changes ...

That's ok, I won't screw down the floorboards needed for viewing the cable run so the electrician can see the whole lot. Although, how does an electrician certify a house without an existing part p for the electrics? Do they don't have to expose every cable?

I'm currently renovating upstairs rooms in my house and making changes to the upstairs sockets (moving some, adding new ones). I'm running new cabling and any existing socket is being removed from the existing ring main and wired with new cable - as soon as it has new cable it has no electrical...

Just removed 2 fairly large tree stumps and had to dig around an area of about 3.5m x 2m up to around 50cm down. Now they've gone I'd like to redo the fence and need to put 2 x 8ft concrete fencing posts in at the edge of the area I've just dug over. Is there anything I can do to speed up the...

Yes, I plan to remove the supporting/dividing wall to open up the entire 4.2m width - it's not a particularly substantial wall, 50% glass, rest is 4x2. I won't be touching the walls supporting the end of the joists (house wall one end, brick wall the other). Longest unsupported span is 4.2m...

I'd like to replace an ageing lean-to built between my house and garage. It's 6.2m x 4.2m, built from 4x2, plastic corrugated roof with a supporting wall about 1m along the 4.2m width (joists run in the direction of the 4.2m width). I plan to remove the supporting wall section and replace...

Not the greatest picture and the crack seems more like 1cm at its widest point now I look at it again. Maybe that's small enough to fill with some kind of sealant directly?

I have a gap in my garage roof (flat felt) at the very corner where the felt has been bent over to form the right angled edge. The gap is about 30cm long and up to 2cm wide in places. It is directly over the corner of the garage and although water isn't getting inside it's soaking the...

Sharing your printer via the downstairs PC does mean the downstairs PC must be on for you to print - this may, or may not, be an issue. You could buy a network print server to remove the need for turning on the desktop when you wanted to print. These are reasonably expensive at around £30 -...

My 2 pence worth, is that unless you have a desire to run your own mail server or there is a specific reason you have to, then you shouldn't bother. If for any reason your server breaks you won't be able to send or receive email for however long it takes you to rectify the situation. Website...

I've no experience of solving such a problem, but wouldn't it be easier to remove the tiles from one side of the door, fit it directly to the wall and then tile up to it. Making adjustments to the door sounds like trouble to me.

I've just done this and my previous experience was a few pipework alterations, new radiator fit and use of pre-soldered joints. The first step was to do some research and plan the pipework. I replaced a single pipe, open vented, system (loop under each floor), with a dual pipe system that...

I've just had my gas service moved and new meter fitted, waiting for corgi to connect up new supply this thursday. Inside the house this leaves me with old steel pipe which runs under the concrete floor supplying the now dead boiler and cooker. The old pipe was open to the air for 10 minutes...

I asked a similar question and went for stelrad compacts in the end. Ordered them online and they were dispatched a week later from a local PTS merchant.

I thought that a combi boiler took a cold feed in and then had a cold feed out so all hot/cold water (for taps) passed through it. Am I mistaken, or do different manufacturers do it differently? I was looking at the Vaillant 838 install manual and noticed they only have 5 connections; CH...

A unanimous vote, but no action? Are you still debating if it should be done, or rather when and how it should be done?

Anyone come across the brand heatline (www.heatline.co.uk) ? It's what my local merchant stocks, but not sure how it compares to the brands mentioned above.

I had a similar problem where I'd asked the plumber to mount the bath as low as possible to maximise head height for showering. He'd not left enough drop on the drainage pipe and the first 50cm actually went slightly uphill! It was solved by raising the bath up 10cm and checking the seals...

I'm looking for new radiators for my house, 10 in all. Problem is I have no idea what is a decent make of radiator and what is a decent price to pay, making comparisons useless :? I've read comments on here about screwfix radiators being cheap and cheerful, so I use their price as the...