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Hello! I'm renovating the bedroom in our late 19th century end of terrace and the original lime plaster is in poor shape. I may need to bring it all down and start from scratch and although this would be a pain it would allow me to internally insulate the pitched part of the ceilings as well as...

Hello! Our shower has stopped working and the neon light on the pull switch won't illuminate when the cord is pulled. I've read a few threads and see that the cause is often the neutral connectors on the pull switch, but we do have one of the Crabtree 50A switches which I think are decent...

Hello! I have pulled up the floor of our extension, this consisted of a chipboard floor floating on battens that were resting on bits of DPC on top of a concrete base. The floor was contiguous with our existing suspended timber floor, but with no ventilation so all the wooden stuff was just...

Hello! I'd like to install some ground floor insulation in our house while we've got the floorboards up and am after some advice if possible. We've got a suspended timber floor, but unfortunately the joists are only 8" off the bottom so I'm not going to be able to work from underneath. The...

Hello! Just after a bit of advice with circuit design if possible. The circuit(s) are for our lounge and dining-room/office (odd combination I know!) in a terrace house and I'm wondering whether I should go for a ring main for the lot or have two radials, one for each room. If I do the...

It seems like scrapping Part P is a popular choice on the government's 'Your Freedom' web page. http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/cutting-business-and-third-sector-regulations/lets-remove-part-p-of-the-building-regulations

Hello! Looking for a bit of reassurance before I plod on... I've got at clipsal 30M two-way light switch in front of me and it has four connections on the back of it. Three of them are labelled 'Common', 'L' and '1' so my thinking is that the L and the 1 are essentially L1 and L2. But the...

Hello! I'm planning the route for an upstairs ring in a terrace. I'd hoped to take it along the landing through the joists to each of the rooms, but can't because it would take it inside the 25% limit. I assumed I'd have to use steel conduit in notches, but this has problems as all the...

Hello! I'm planning a ring circuit and was wondering if there any guidelines about when you need a earth terminal in a plastic mounting box. The plaster on the walls is too thin to take a 25 mm metal box so I was hoping to attach plastic boxes directly to the masonry and then make good. This...