Bathroom Installers Archive
Hall lighting The most important thing about lighting hall and stairs is to ensure there’s enough light to be able to move around safely. High levels of general lighting are recommended and it’s particularly important that the lighting on the …
Ceilings In a narrow hall or landing the ceiling, although the same height as other ceilings in the house can seem unusually high. It’s partly the narrowness that gives the feeling, but the tall walls of the stairwell can add …
Laying wood flooring The different types of wood flooring Generally, adhesive is used for fix- lay mosaic panels with adhesive, how are laid in different ways – and this ing thin, pre-fabricated panels on to secret-nail a strip floor and …
Floors: ideas for platforms Changing the level of a floor can be an effective way of demarcating an area for a specific purpose, a dining area in an open plan living room for instance. Changing levels usually means a platform …
Wiring new lights If you intend to make dramatic changes to an existing lighting system with lots of new lighting points and new switch positions, it’s probably better to install a whole new circuit than to try to adapt or …
Lighting Most houses are built with a minimum of thought given to the proper provision of lighting and, often rooms have just one central ceiling light fitting. A more sensible arrangement – for most rooms in the house – is …
Installing a spur Step-by-step From a socket Select a convenient socket and checkwhetherthissocket is on a ring, or onaspur. Whenyou have located a suitable socket on a ring, connecta length of 25mm 2 twin and earth and run itto the …
Power points Since the ring circuit can carry as many socket outlets and fixed appliances as you like, within the restraints of total possible loading, it’s usually possible to have sockets wherever you need them at relatively little extracost. And, …
Luxury flooring For living rooms, bedrooms and halls, any room in fact which isn’t a kitchen, bathroom or utility room, carpet is the commonest floor covering, but wood flooring is another choice. Wood flooring There are various types of timber …
Windows Windows are an important feature of every house, their main functions are to let light in and allow the occupants to see out. But they also reflect a house’s architectural character (and can make or mar it). In some …
