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Is a 9 degree pitch too low for a tiled roof? Tiles are double pantile that I managed to get for free for a workshop I'm planning - the hope was that I can build the front up to 2.5 meters and the rear to 1.9m and just use the front to back difference as the pitch (drop should be .6 meters over...

After some advice while I'm in the planning stages for my intended workshop / man-cave: I'll be getting rid of the shed and replacing it with an (approx) 14ft x 11ft workshop. The plan is to cast a single section concrete base (a raft??) to the right size with a damp proof membrane...

Just bought a 12V (12A) battery charger for the caravan battery. Hooked it up this morning and left it for 3 hours > came back to it and there doesn't appear to be any charge in the battery. I've tested it with a miltimeter (while both connected to and disconnected from the battery) and the...

Just been speaking to a mate, who due to the fact that the gas board (or their chosen company) are digging up half of his estate, has had his gas supply turned off all day for "essential maintenance". He got home tonight and the gas is still off and won't be turned back on till tomorrow...

I'm about to start fitting PVCu internal trim round some of the windows - got the trim, but not sure of the best way to cut it so it looks nice and neat. I've got the usual array of hacksaws, jigsaw, stanley knife etc - what's likely to give me the best and cleanest cut? Also assuming that...

I've got a slightly oddly laid-out house, and a couple of the very small rooms haven't got radiators in them. This means that in the winter they're getting condensation forming in them, which is a pain. So far I've installed a radiator into the other half's walk-in closet (hopefully earning...

Evening. Later this week I'm planning on putting an extra radiator in upstairs (SWMBO has a large closett / wardrobe that gets too cold and gets condensation in it in winter - soulution seems to be to put a small rad in there). I'm going to cut into the upstairs piping and because of a desire...

having to replace my 2 port valve as it's a bit FUBAR'd (replacing a honeywell with a drayton MA1). Really daft question but wanted to check before I swap out - I assume the A & B markings on the body are constant whatever the manufacturer?? So A = CH and B = hot water?? I'm assuming it's a...

Not sure if this should be in electrics, telephones or computer hardware so bear with me. When we moved into the house we had the whole place rewired - pretty standard rewire, separate upstairs & downstairs rings, radial for the cooker, one for the shed, blah-blah-blah. Because I was...

For reasons of our dog being a bit mental sometimes and chewing the stair carpet (usually while we're out - this time she narrowly avoided getting a blocked intestine due to ingested carpet), myself & Mrs "Numpty" have decided to remove the carpet and go with something different. The rest of...

Planning on connecting up a toilet tomorrow evening for my parents - so need ot get it right first time.... Soil pipe is in place and I have the connector - do I need to use any compounds / sealants to make sure the seal between soil pipe and bog is watertight? or should the rubber collar do...

I'm about to plumb in a shower pump for my Dad and need a quick pointer: - Shower pump is outside of bathroom (airing cupboard), and I'm going to use the old immersion heater circuit (no immersion heater anymore & the cabling's still in place (16A MCB on the CU, 2.5mm cable)) One half of...

Got a small problem on a flat roof at the front of the house. The felt is generally ok, but close to the edge there is a recess in the roof that forms a gutter, the felt has cracked in the U (on the house side of the U) - drawn a diagram to illustrate Now I could get a roofer to redo the...

....As I don't want to flood the mother in law's flat :D I'm replacing the bathroom sink taps for her in a few weeks and need to double check something... (She's got a combi boiler and I've only ever done plumbing work on tanked hot water systems - hence the daft question). I assume that I...

Slightly stuck with this. Trying to wire up a male IEC line plug, but the stupid thing doesn't make which of the 2 shorter pins is the live, and which is neutral (the middle longer pin is marked as earth). According to the blurb on various sites it's a c13 type plug, and lookes like this...

Evening folks, I've built a couple of portable distro's (32A plugs to small CU's with RCD's and MCB's out to 13A sockets etc), and 3 of 4 are fine, the RCD tests ok and no bother. The 4th one is causing a bit more of a strange 'un.... It's a proteus 40A RCD with a functional earth cable...

Afternoon folks. About to put an RCD into a little portable distro (32A socket to a CU with an RCD, then a 32A MCB, and then to 3 x 13A sockets on a ring). I was given an RCD (proteus) to put in it, and it appears to have a little cable coming out of it (can't be much more than .5mm) from...

Evening folks, Got a rendered wall with a few small cracks in it that I'd like to fill in before I paint over it - any suggestions / recommendations on the best stuff to use?? I assume bog standard decorators caulk is no good?? Preferably cheap and something I can get from a shed Ta muchly

Hey folks. Was having a look at a CU on a mobile board a few days back (owned by a mate who uses it for gigging). The CU on the board was a metalclad one, and as well as having an earth bar it had a separate bar that was being used for all the neutrals. Now I've wired up a few small CU's in...

Hey folks - phase 2 of converting the garden from it's former wilderness stae is about to begin, and the thinking half of the relationship & me have decided to make raised beds out of breeze block, then render them and limewash to finish them off. The beds will be about 2 courses of block...