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Hi, We had an extension and the builder / plumber / patio installers have managed to leave out 40mm kitchen waste pipe too close to the wall and finishing above the drain. Therefore for the past 4 years I am confident that quite a lot of water / waste ends up missing the drain. Can anybody...

Apologies - very ignorant with electrics. I have bought (but not yet received) a used hot tub. It will no doubt be 16-30amps. I am aware that this means an electrician will need to be called. The garden has one of the below from a previous owner. It says on the front that it should have a 30mA...

Hi, I have done my best to research but am still not much wiser. Last year we rearranged the garden / drive. This involved a lot of work but the end result was that the driveway is shorter and the side of the garden much longer. We wish to use this new space to do 2 things: (I have...

Hi, In October we gave garden a total overhaul. Consequently a large slope at the back of the garden has been spread over the whole garden raising it by 40cm or so. Much of this appears to be heavy clay. During the heavy rain the last few months we saw that the water was sitting on the clay...

Hi, We are about to build a retaining wall in our garden using 250 x 150mm x 2.6m sleepers. They are 4 long (10.4m) and stacked 2 high (500mm) but I dont know the easiest way to secure this to the ground. I am not an expert so would therefore prefer something that is simple, cheap and also...

Hi, We have a Stoves 720EMA double oven & grill. A while ago the grill failed and trips the RCD if I try to use it. However, now the main oven appears to have failed too. The RCD tripped, and now I cannot even turn the oven on to see the display without tripping, (even though both the oven...

Hi, We recently moved house and found that , although the electric timeswitch is on, the boiler is sometimes off :( We can sometimes kickstart the boiler into burning gas by turning the timeswitch off and on manually, but other times this has no effect. Other days it works fine thankfully. I...