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I had 10m of 10mm SWA installed last year, into the garden by a sparky. This afternoon, there was a small fire (caused by a cigatette!!) that had burned the outer sheath of the SWA. About 2 feet in the middle. There is enough SWA to cut the damaged part out move it along (there is about 3-4 feet...

Hi, I am rotovating my garden this weekend, and levelling the ground. I have fences along the right of the house and across part of the back (a garage is across the rest of the back) I want to get the garden as level as I can, and need to go off the existing decking. The fences across the...

I am moving my hot tub from oy old house to my new. The electrics were done by a sparky in 2006. I am taking all the armoured cable with me, and breaker box that sits near the tub. The witing is very straight forward, I watched him do it, and do some og my own stuff at home. Can I...

I am moving my hot tub from my old house to my new. It was on a concrete base, and need to make a base of some sort where I am moving to. The base was made at the old house as part of a bigger job a few years ago, so I don’t know the actual cose of the base alone. I have been quoted £350 to...

I have tiles my bathroom floor, so therefore the toilet and sink are raised now. I have a problem with the basin waste only all the other connections are fine. My waste comes out of the wall and then has a 90 degree bend on it obviously facing up, ready for the S trap to connect to the sink...

I had a shower leak, this resulted in some water coming throughou the living room lights. The fuse tripped and in darkness. I went down turned the downstairs lights fuse off, put power back on, fixed the shower problem then had a look at the light. There were a few drips still coming out. So as...

I have fitted a new shower door, where you can adjust it, for when the wall is not straight, the screw holes are a little big. Now the door moves slightly within the frame that's screwed to the wall. I thought of getting some larger screws but the White plastic caps won't fit on top. What's the...

Hi, I have taken a spur off to a fused switch behine the tv unit. I have gone from there up to behind the tv which is wall mounted. I have like an idiot, forgotten about the dvd, amp etc, that will sit on tio of the tv unit below. Can I change the fused switch over to a double, IE...

Hi, I have gutted the en suite, put new everything in. The shower that was there was a mixer, about a foot to the right of the on/off tempreture control was the flexi pipe connector, that connected to the head and sat up on a bracket. I have binned that and put a similar mixer in aith a...

Hi, I need to keep access to below the shower. I am tiling the floor, and floor tiling the skirting, to the height of the shower tray and the pipework is boxed in so will be tiled. Whats the best way to keep it accessible, I don’t want to just cover with ply, then tile so I cant get to it in...

I have moved onto the main bathroom now.. I have noticed that the floor is sloping, 1" over 48" It is noticable when you stand bacl and look into the bathroom, as I have put a towel radiator up, which is not sloping, but looks like it is, also the boxing in of the pipes it plumb, and you...

Hi, I have recelthy drained the CH system down as fitted a towel rad in the bathroom. All went ok, refilled (vented system) and no leaks, bled rads. Now the pump is making a hell of a noise, which is in the airing cupboard. I have removed the large silver screw, completely, and nothing...

Hi, I have redone my en suite, well nearly. I have replaced the plasterboard in the shower tanked and tiled. I had to take off a whole board, which I have replaced. The tiled area is 80% of that board, and it is butted upto an existing board which is not tiled. I need to join the old and new...

I have installed a new en suite, and am having a couple of problems, the basin, I think I might be ok with, but the toilet pan I also have an issue with. Basically put it in, all ok, but I should screw it down to the floor. The floor is tiled, and where the screws go, I know there are pipes...

I have installed a new en suite, tiles etc and am quite happy, however I am having a problem with the basin. I can’t get it onto the wall properly. There are only two screws underneath, with limited space to get a screwdriver in as it is. There was a pair of wall plugs with it, but as it is...

Hi, I am replacing the whole of my en suite. I have removed the tiles, and most of the adhesive. The plasterboard looks fine all round, (House built in 1993, not changed before) As they are so good, not damp, wet discoloured atall, am I good to just retile. I have read a lot about Aquaboards...

Hi, I am redoing the en suite and main bathroom. Ripped everything out, had a fight with the tile adhesive, I won…. Now I am going to be tiling the floors, I have taken up the laminate, (waste of time laminating bathrooms, especially when you have small children). The chipboard floor...

I have just replaced, and relocated an existing photocell. This is on a wall switch that once switched will come on at dusk. We have some patio lights that are on a second switch, that I would like to run off the photocell aswell. I have tried various options, but I can only get them working...

My girlfriend has lights that come on at night, by photocell. They were not working, so I replaced the cell. There is a group of three switches on the wall, one for the lights in the garden, and one for the garage lights, which when turned on the photocell clicks, and the lights go on, but...

Yesterday I put trv's on the radiators, drained the system etc, all straight forward. Refilled the system, and at first not all the rads were getting hot, turned heating off, balanced rads (from nearest boiler first) then bled, now all hot, but the pump is making a hel of a noise, unlike before...