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Hi all, I am lookign to instal 18mm engineered wooden flooring in one of my existing rooms. I have discovered after lifting the carpets that half the room has a concrete sunbstrate (which I am assuming had no DPM due to the age of the build) and the other half is 22mm floorboards over...

Hi all, My friend has just bought a house and was showing me something that made me a bit concerned. At the front of his house there is a balcony off the living room which is one storey above the garden. The balcony is constructed by a single skin brick wall at the front which has steel I...

Hi all, I have recently moved into a victorian flat, it is a 3 storey building with the bottom floor being a basement. My bathroom setup is that I have a sink which discharges into a run of 42mm pipe, I have a bath which tee's into this run. The pipe then is unioned with a small section of...

How easy is it to retro fit slate tile vents into a roof. Does the vent need to be flashed afterwards? And what would be the process for putting one in. THanks.

Looking for a bit of advice on running power to my newly erected shed. The shed is approximately 30m from my house consumer unit. But their power run to an outisde light (approximately 5m from the shed), but this is on 6A MCB. I have no RCD on my house CU, but do have a spare way. I...

I recently purchased a new dual fual range cooker. I was surprised to find that no cable was supplied to connect to the outlet terminal. The electric ovens are rated at a combined 7.3kW. I have run 10mm T&E cable to a double pole isolation swith from the CU. This then runs to a terminal...

I recently purchased a property which has a Worchester 250 combi boiler, and a hortsman mechanical timer. I recently found a small (1.5" x 1") acl lifestyle fitting in the hall, it is wired with a 1.5mm T&E cable and seems to only be a resistor and capacitor, I followed where the wire ran to...

Just out of curiosity, i am looking to change a plastic light switch in my kitchen to a chrome one, i have seen 20A DP switches for sale. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between a normal switch and a DP switch. Also I plan to change my cabinet light switch also. Their are 12 x...

Looking for a bit of advice. I recently moved into a new flat that currently has a Worchester Bosch 240 combi boiler providing both our hot water and central heating. I was doing a bit of investigation in our loft to find to my surprise a water tank. My first assumption was that it was a...

I currently have a consumer unit which has no spare space for any extra circuits. I am in the process of upgrading my kitchen and will require a new circuit for the electric cooker. I also plan on converting my loft in the near future and will most likely put in extra circuits also. I am due...