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Hi All, bit of a long one so my appologies. I wanted to take the rad off in my kitchen but one of the valves was stuck so I thought I'd try to draing the system and replace the valve and rad at the same time. I proceeded to drain the system but only got a bucket full of water.I tried...

Hi All, My home office is expanding rappidly and I need a 10 gang extension lead. It needs to be 4 metre long but I can only find 2 metre ones. Can anyone tell me if it would be wise to use 4 metre flex in place of 2 metres? Or would this mess the surge protection up? Many thanks

Hi All, I've just moved the socket which the timer controls of my boiler use. It was previously a single socket but I wanted to make it a double, I moved the socket about 2ft higher and shortened the flex of the timer controls. When I turned the power back on the lights on the control...

Hello All, I'm looking for a good electrician in the Basildon (Essex) area. Would anyone be able to help? Thanks, Tommy J

Hi All, Over the past few months we've been experiencing a droaning noise. This has now got VERY Anoying and more frequent. At first I thought it might be the neighbours or something outside but as we couldn't track down where it was coming from I couldn't do anything about it. I spoke to...

Hi All, I moved into our home a year ago now and I'm just getting round to fixing the shower. The previous owners left a note telling us that there was a funny smell coming from the swich near the main fusebox (the consumer Unit). We've not used it yet and I want to install a new consumer...

Hi All, I bought a bifold door from Homebase at the weekend and can you beleive that they don't sell the track for it. They said, "they don't come with the door because people kept nicking them, and they don't sell them seperatly because no-one needed them". If people kept knicking them then...

I need to earth all the lights in our house as the current lights only have two wires. In order to earth these I need to get in the loft. Can I earth a light to a socket earth? As the earth is always the same can I not just add an earth wire to the socket and run that into to the light...

I've just fitted a spur to an existing socket in spur bedroom. However I have had to move the original socket about two foot to the side. In doing this I have had to add more wire. I've added about 4ft of wire so the new socket will connect to the existing circuit. unfortunately I've had to cut...