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To make my wife happy I have to fit a new shower base, unfortunately this must be no wider than 760mm due to a window, but can be as long as I like, she doesn't want one 760mm square. I've spent rather too much time dealing with leaks on the old one, due to tiles butting to the base without an...

I've got a garage too small for a car that I want to partially convert to a room and have a couple of questions. The garage is attached to the house and has a cavity wall on the two external walls and a bedroom above, so is effectively another room with a garage door. 1) How should a joist be...

I'm having a new central heating system installed, complete with solar panels and a mains pressure hot water tank. I was wondering if it's ok to drink the warm water out of the tank. I was thinking during the summer, the tank is likely to be permamently full of free hot water, so wouldn't it...

I've just discovered 2 major problems with my house, it's about 40 yrs old and is built in the way of the prevailing wind and rain. They've built an extension about 20 years ago, which seems to have a few issues: 1) With the ceiling stripped, after very heavy rain, a damp patch appears on the...

Ok, the story goes I had my house re-wired and a new consumer unit fitted (replacing an old fuse wire setup) by what I thought were a reputable firm, one of the MCBs failed after about 9 months, due to a number of factors I've only just got round to worrying about it (18+ months later), the...

I've got an MCB in my consumer unit which I think is faulty, mainly due to the fact I turned it off along with all the others trying to identify which circuit my garage sockets were connected to, from then onwards it simply refuses to turn back on, even though there is nothing plugged into the...

I'm about to move a cooker point from one room into the adjacent room. Although we never use the cooker point, I think it would be a good idea to have one in the new room and do it before I decorate, is it ok to run a spur from the existing cooker switch (live side) to a new cooker switch...

Does anyone have any tips on how you get actually get a Corgi registered person to turn up for smaller jobs. I live near Manchester and need to cap off 2 old gas fires and move a cooker point around about 8m into the adjacent room, so far I've tried around 20 names from the Corgi site and so...