An electrician has cut a small chase into the kitchen wall below a socket and just above the glass splashback to sort out some cabling. The hole now needs making good, but there's uncertainty …
A homeowner has lifted a failing patio at the back of the house and found it had been laid over timber decking with a bit of concrete near the wall – no wonder it was moving. Now the ground is …
A homeowner with 12v MR16 downlights set into plasterboard ceilings needed to get at the transformer after the low-voltage lead to the bulb failed. The fittings – fire-rated JCC types with twin-tong …
Just bought your first house, the survey flags the electrics as at least 20 years old, and the fuse box is a wooden-backed unit with only a handful of circuits and no obvious RCD protection. The …
A homeowner fitted a smart thermostat themselves on what looked like a Y-plan system (one 3-port motorised valve, hot water cylinder, separate room stat). The wiring went in following the …
