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sorry if this has been asked before I'm looking to replace a built under electric cooker with a newer one I know i can't have a double because there is no power point just a couple of sockets under the work top. however the cooker the wife wants is a bosch that according to the catalogue is...

Hi i've just had an electrical test done as part of british gas's homecare package, they've told me that my fuse box needs to be updated to a 17th generation RCD and that the gas supply needs earthing the're quoting me £750 for the work. Is this about right? I have a feeling because its BG...

Hi I'm just about to replace the internal doors in my flat and I was wondering about the old door latches. The new doors I've bought have the handles lower than the old ones so i've cut new reccesses for the latch/catch in the door frame but now I have a space further up the frame where the...

Hi I just have a quick question about hiring an electrican. is there a recgonised standard I should look for? I know that gas guys need to be corgi registered is there something simmilar for electricians? cheers

Hi I've just had british gas round as part of their homecare package to look at some old lead pipe in a cuboard in my flat. Basically there used to be a boiler there which the previous owners had removed and had a combi boiler put in the kitchen, so there are now two capped off pipes running...

Hi I'm just about to start decorating my bedroom the walls are in pretty good condition but there are a few pin holes, dinks, scratches and also small blobs of paint/plaster. As I said nothing major is it worth just filling in the holes ect then sanding over the top to level everything off or is...

Hi guys just looking for some advice I moved into my new flat in feb about a month ago I signed up for british gas's electrical cover and one of their engineers came out and look at my fusebox ect and it turns out that the there is a high impedence value for the earthing loop. the guy from...

Hi sorry if this is in the wrong place or has been answered already but here goes. my combi boiler is mounted in the kitchen of my flat on the back wall, the outlet goes through the wall above the back door. my bathroom wall is directly to the right of the back door at a right angle ,so the...

Hi I want to remove the frame from a door way in my kitchen it used to be a larder. At the moment it has a fridge freezer in there but the wife wants a slightly wider one. Is it safe for me to just remove the door frame? and how would i go about it? is it a case of just prying it away from the...

Hi sorry if this has been posted before I tried searching but anyway. I'm about to replace my bathroom and the soil pipe for the toilet is in the floor, while looking for a new one B&Q told me that all of the toilets they have will only go into soil pipes in the wall is this common? or was the...

I'm thinking of removing the window sill in my bathroom and tiling round the recess. how difficult would this be? could I just knock the old sill out? thanks

Hi i'm just about to move into a new flat, and the bathroom is very small: 6'5 x 5'5. at the moment the toilet is inbetween the sink and the bath along the 6ft back wall so the lay out is: bath in left corner,toilet then basin in right corner. I was wondering how difficult/expensive it would be...

Hi this is my first post so please bare with me. I am in the process of buying my first flat and have a question. In the bathroom the back wall I think leads onto the kitchen of the flat next door, now the bottom half of the wall seems to be solid (not sure if its brick or breese block) while...