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Hello again. I've just had a new extension built and the spark has brought my test certificate around today for the new circuits etc after a bit of badgering by me. Will I need a separate building certificate regarding this electrical work (he is registered) organising by him or will the...

Pretty much as the thread title says, i'm trying to locate some similar paving to so that I can easily replaced that damaged by a building project. It doesn't have to be the same colour although similar would be better obviously. But getting the same sizes would be really good as I can then...

Hello. I have been having some extensive building work and one of the final parts of this was to build (rebuild really) my porch on the front of my new extension. I noticed this evening that the lining paper on my living room wall has started to come away. When I felt the wall here inside the...

Hello. I've recently had a garage conversion. The spark has removed the old sockets/lighting and has rewired the new sockets and lights back to the existing garage consumer unit. The consumer unit is fed from an old metal fusebox, which goes direct to the main CU in the house. The cable run...

Evening all. I recently had the walls on my stairs re-plastered (within the last two months) and a very fine job too. The walls had been drying out fairly nicely but when I went to paint yesterday I noticed some damp areas on the inside of the external wall. They also have a white substance on...

Good evening all. I am currently having side extension built and it seems like a good idea to install some Cat 6 (or 5e?) around my house while I have easy access. The Wifi signal in my house is terrible and so i'd like to install a couple of Wireless Access Points - one upstairs, one in the...

Evening all. I am having an extension built at the moment and I need to have the boiler moved. When this done I'd like a smart CH timer/thermostat installed in place of the current rubbish remote version I have (it constantly loses connection with the boiler, despite being only 50 cm away)...

Afternoon all. I have a capped gas pipe in my living room from where the previous owner disconnected an old gas fire. It's capped a just above floor level but I would like it to be capped below floor level so I can put a carpet down without having a gas pipe sticking up through it! Are there...

Evening all. While running the bath for the kids tonight the water never really got very hot. It has been fine up until now so this isn't a slow deterioration in heating but has happened since my shower this morning. Is this most likely to be the diverter valve letting by on the boiler? While I...

Evening! :D Back in 2017 we had a loft conversion with dormer fitted. After a bit the roof started leaking and it turned out to be that they had not terminated the dormer roof properly with the existing pitched roof. There were a few other bodges by the original builders but these were sorted...

Evening all, I got home today to discover a tamper fault on my Texecom. I tried doing the latching walk test and it came up with a '......B......' on the LCD display. Not really sure what this means from the manual but anyway I progressed and opened up the panel. Below is the inside of the...

Afternoon all. We had a rear extension built in Autumn 2014. We discovered we had a problem with rats. We killed them with poison. They came back. We killed them again with poison. They came back again. A long story short(ish), they have been getting under the house and then coming up either...

Afternoon! I need to connect an old iron guttering downpipe to a PVC downpipe but am struggling to find the correct connection. Online searches keep sending me the way of connections for cast iron soil stacks. Can anyone help specify what it is I need please? Also, what is the best way to cut...

We had a downstairs WC put in around 2½ ago and the room has a sliding door. Over the past few months the door has become more difficult to close eventually resulting on me pulling it off the runner it is attached to above the door. I managed to hook it back on and all seemed ok(ish) for a...

Afternoon all. We're in the process of having our loft converted. The builders want to know what lighting we want and are suggesting spotlights. TBH i've never really been a fan of them and am trying to find any other solutions. The ceiling isn' that low but I think this is an occasion where...

Evening! We had a Main eco elite 25 installed in November 2014. It's always worked well but recently it has developed an annoying whine when the central heating is on. It doesn't whine all the time and takes a few minutes to get going but I used to be able to stop it by a quick run of the hot...

Afternoon all! We're looking in to getting our loft converted. We want to have a dormer with a couple of roof lights. Stick an en suite in and it'll basically be our master bedroom. The house is a 3 bed 1930's terrace in London. I've made a request for a Lawful Development Certificate to save...

We have an 18 month old Main combi boiler and over the last few months the hot water has been intermittent when using the shower (mixer shower). Its getting progressively worse and now goes cold after being run for a couple of minutes then eventually warms up again before goung back cold...

We built a single storey extension with pitched roof on the rear of our terrace a couple of years ago. Our neighbours are building the same (albeit with a flat roof) and have left a gap of no more than 100mm between the extensions. They have extended the side of their flat roof over the...

My neighbours are building a rear extension that is almost adjoining my rear extension (there is an air gap of about 150mm between the walls). Before he started building I asked him to draw up a party wall agreement. No grief, just basically so I knew where I was with the work as he had to...