Russell griffiths

I’m no electrician but we have two ovens and a hob, all 3 items are on their own dedicated circuit hob with a 10mm cable and the two ovens on 6mm each. don’t be using fused spurs, not in a new house. and look into your isolation switches, get the location right, no neon switches on show, all hidden nicely.

Add more of them to even out the spacing.

Don’t set them in concrete, bolt them onto a concrete pad, this way you can build all the structure up and bolt them down when you are happy. too many things get drawn up with little thought as to how to build it. or you need two wooden posts and a string line. or the alternative method is to dig your holes and build the entire structure, but don’t concrete the posts, just hang them in thin air by putting temporary blocks under the structure. when you are happy it’s all correct get a load of concrete at once and concrete in all the posts at the same time.

the cables here are a good 2 m.

This is a standard procedure in Australia build the steel framed garage first, fit a shower and toilet, divide off a bedroom area. move in say nothing and save £12,000 a year in rent. far more usable space than a skinny caravan. I lived in a 6x7 m cabin for 2 years with the wife and 2 dogs. The only thing we needed was more storage space, a shipping container would soon sort that out.

I like air admittance traps as well so one under the bath as well as basin.

Why. how often do you need to isolate your induction hob ? the day you buy a new one, that’s the only time you will ever go near that switch. put a surface mounted box in the corner and get moved onto the next problem.

two switches for ovens, why make it any more complicated.

Get a pole that the laser fits too for indoors, they have a mount for the laser that has fine adjustment, a spring loaded foot so you can compress the pole and fit it in a doorway. wish I had bought one years ago. the standard method of fitting indoors is to get an old wood saw and smash the plastic handle off, then use the hole in the end of the blade to put a screw through and hang on a stud or something, magnetic fixing on back of laser onto saw blade.

To vent the STP you can do this with a vent pipe running up the back of a shed or into the bushes and vertical, what you don’t want is it near the patio and bbq area.

If the wires are in place then that’s that, unless you want to move them. most of our isolation is in the pantry all flush fitted. however the isolation for the two oven is as you describe a 47mm surface box in the back corner of the cupboard. cut a square of osb and fit it behind the cupboard where the switch is going. 47mm in a 600 deep cupboard isn’t exactly taking up a lot of room.

Get on the phone now and sort some insurance. we were in exactly the same position, site insurance ran out in about a fortnight, we could extend but it was £1200 a year, go to a broker and talk through what you have built, don’t do it online.

Be careful looking at pictures not in the uk, it’s easy to find an idea that would be very hard to replicate with our regs and building methods.

How heavy ? some of the metal toggle fixings can take a large amount of weight now. you might need to chuck the original fixings away and add more to the cabinet to spread the load. show us what you have, opening up the wall would be the last resort sort of situation.

@saveasteading you rattle me a lot actually you have a habit of quoting people, but only including part of whatever they have written. which leads to leaving out vital bits of the quote. please if you copy something that someone has written include all of it for context.

Fu#k me!! who rattled your cage this morning. should you not be offering help and support instead of some of the wanky replies you have handed out on this post.

Forgive me if I’m being thick. but the colour changing and temperature changes are down to the led and driver unit. thin profile is down to the aluminium profile that you recessed into the cupboard, as long as the strip fits in the profile then off you go. just get a profile thinner than your bottom of your cupboard.

As above, check your insurance and move in. you must be 100% happy it is safe though, so all fire escape windows and routes out the building complete, smoke detectors in place and electrical sign off, after that it’s up to you.

Better pics needed but I would not render it take the top 3 courses off and either rebuild those, or just re cap it at that lower height. Does it need to be a specific height for it to function correctly, what purpose does it serve. replace the low down blown brick and give it a bit of a re point.

Buy good quality switches with interchangeable modules. unless your place is costing north of a couple of million to build then just have faceplates with screws in them. it’s just another problem you don’t need, and after a month you won’t look at the switch ever again. 12 switches in the photo, click mode by scholmore would they look better without the screws ??

Watching robin clevett will give you unrealistic expectations of your trades people.

Go online and buy in box quantities of 12.

It’s a ball ache job in a trench that narrow, two courses of trench blocks, or I prefer concrete blocks.

still probably too big for what you would need, not sure if it gives the right feel though. about as natural as it gets. my friend has a wildlife pond he dug and used a liner, I will see if he has any pics. he’s the type of bloke who would have researched it for a year first.

just messing. get your spade out, you would need to shift a few tonnes to get a pond like my one. serious photo to follow when I can find one.