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Having lifted my landing floor to fix a central heating problem I’ve found that there’s a run of approximately 10 T&E cables that goes along the length of the upstairs landing. The cables are loosely bundled together and supported about once a metre by straps made by nailing short lengths of...

My existing immersion heater circuit has two 20A DP switchs, one in the kitchen and another upstairs next to the cylinder. The switch by the cylinder then feeds a mechanical timer with a built in on/off/timer switch. As the switch in the kitchen serves no real purpose will I be able to get it...

I'm going to be installing a chimney type cooker hood in my kitchen. Would it be acceptable to install a single socket or FCU above the hood on the part of the wall covered by the chimney or does it need to have external isolation? The socket or FCU will be part of the kitchen ring with...

I need to replace the door between my kitchen and attached garage. I've measured it as 1990mm x 804mm. It's a good close fit to the door frame. It doesn't appear match any of the standard metric or imperial sizes I've found listed. Does anyone know if this is a standard size of door...

I need to replace an existing radiator and I'm trying to get a figure for the required BTU. It’s a bedroom measuring 3m x 4m x 2.3m. The floor is wooden with a heated living room below. The ceiling is below a pitched roof with at least 100mm of insulation. There are two outside walls with an...

Can I run the ducting for a kitchen extractor hood through an attached garage? My main concern is any fire regs that may apply. I want to go through the kitchen cavity wall straight across the garage and then out through the outside garage wall. Given that the garage has a plasterboard...

Does anyone know if it's possible to get Dewalt Extreme 2 HSS drill bits (with the stepped tips) resharpened? If not is there anywhere significantly cheaper than Screwfix where I can source replacements (7.0-9.0mm)? Thanks

To save my electrician time (and me money) I'm trying to get all the cable routes prepared for my kitchen rewire. Unfortunately I can't get in touch with my electrician until next week and I'd like to get on with the job. I've got a wall where there will be two double sockets and two 20A DP...

I need to change some wiring in my kitchen. Due to the nature of the work and the age of the existing wiring I'm going to have to get the rest of the wiring updated at the same time including a new CU. I believe that the seventeenth edition of the requirements is coming out in January and...

I'm replacing my kitchen sink. It's the sort that can be fitted either left or right handed and you then fit a blanking plug into the unused tap hole that ends up at the front. My mother has a very similiar sink. Instead of having a blanking plate in the front tap hole her sink has got a...

I've had an electrician round to quote for the rewiring in my kitchen; I need some sockets moved and a couple adding. I generally happy enough with what I was told and the price seems reasonable for the work suggested. I would however like to check one thing. Is it true that the sockets will...

I need some rewiring in my kitchen. Due to my lack of success in finding an electrician willing to come and have a look I've had time on my hands and I've been looking for potential problems. My shower is supplied via a small secondary CU next to the original CU. The secondary CU contains...

My shower is wired with 10mm T&E and I need to replace a short length of damaged earth sleeving at the CU end. I just went to try and pick some up at the local diy shed and they didn't have anything nearly big enough. I had a look at the 10mm T&E they sell and it had a single earth conductor...

All the central heating systems I've previously seen have radiators where there's a valve on each side. My radiators are different. They have a single combined valve on one side and a blanking plug on the other. There's an internal length of pipe that goes from the valve and reaches about 18...

My last daft question for a while… After reading this forum for a while with regard to the wiring I’m going to need in my kitchen I’m now considering having my CU replaced as part of the same job. It’s currently an eighties vintage Crabtree unit with big brown breakers. The existing...

My garage is attached to the side of the house and shares one complete wall. The garage has one double socket which is on a spur off the back of one of the sockets in the house. I'd really like some additional sockets. Would it be acceptable to extend the house ring main into the garage...

I'm trying to finalise my new kitchen layout. I've currently got a freestanding electric cooker which is hardwired into a cooker outlet then to a 45A CCU (with socket) and back to the CU via 6mm twin and earth and a 30A breaker. The existing wiring comes down the wall to the CCU and then left...

I want to add wiring to supply some low voltage under cabinet lights. I was thinking of taking a 2.5 mm spur from an existing socket that's on the ring. It would then go through a 20A DP switch and up to an unswitched 13A socket above the cabinets which the transformer would plug into. Is...