Recent content by DaG56

Thanks for the replies and just one more thing. Are external stub stacks common and would the bc allow one? I could core through the outside wall for the toilet waste pipe, the main drain pipe underground is about 600mm away running parallel with the wall like the ops. It's about 700mm down so...

I'm looking at doing something similar to the op in the next year or so. If no manhole was installed and just a T or a Y into the main drain from a stub stack. Would the join area be likely to block?

Sorry to revive this old thread. I was wondering what can be done if the toilet contents do jump across the channel and land on the opposite side. Is there a chamber available with entry's only on on one side? Is it something a building control man would have an issue with?

I got a 1050 long lintel from Jewsons (hope theirs don't snap like carrots) so I'll have about 115mm for it to sit on. Thanks again noseall, your help was much appreciated.

Ok, thanks, I'll go elsewhere for one. :) The way the upstairs joists are positioned it works out that the new opening will be centered between two of them so there is no weight over the middle of the lintel. Will 100mm end bearing be ok?

Hi all. I'm converting a serving hatch opening into a doorway (820 wide) & I'm after a bit of lintel advice. The wall I'm making the doorway in is a structrual wall, it has the upstairs floor joists resting on it & is 100mm brick. The wall doesn't carry on upstairs, it only holds the weight...

That's great lads, thanks a lot for the advice. :D The distance between the upstairs floor joists & the padstones is 172 mm, my beam is 152 high, so I need 20 mm of packing. Steel shims it is then.

Hi. Can anyone tell me if an rsj has to be mortar bedded onto a padstone or does it just sit on the stones with any gap taken up by packers? If it is packers will steel packing pieces (which I have easy access to being a metalworker) be ok or is some other material normally used to pack the...

Why is that no longer done?

What securespark & yourself have said is good enough for me, marbo it is then. What I'm buying, I'll save about £40 using marbo instead of mk or crabtree. Thanks for everbodys help, it's appreciated. :D

Were you being serious there jujubean, it's just that marbo seems to be sold by everybody, well, b&q & screwfix anyway. I read a comment about marbo a while ago & they said the make was rubbish. I wouldn't have thought they would be allowed to sell their stuff if they were dangerous, or really...

Ok, thanks for that. I misunderstood the link which said..... The green & blue zones were within 150mm of the top of a wall or within 150mm of a corner. But there were exceptions to this rule, one being vertically or horizontally from a socket, which is where I come in. I always believed...

Sorry Rf, I Should have given a bit more info. Your link states that you can run wiring horizontaly as long as it's buried 50mm below wall surface. What I'd like to know is, does that still apply if you are linking sockets in a ring main that are for example only a few millimetres apart. The...

I know you shouldn't run wiring across a room but is it ok if the sockets/fcu's are very close together? Also is Marbo an ok make, their prices are a canny bit less then the likes of Mk.

Ok, thanks for that. I didn't expect a reply so soon with me posting this late at night. :D