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Thanks Deluks. Just have the downspout running down into the shingle?

I live in a very wet part of Lancashire with particularly claggy clay soil that simply refuses to drain. Previous owners put a shed straight onto the soil surface and now, 10 years after moving in, the shed has sunk to such a degree that the floor has made contact with the ground and rotted...

Solved. Kept chipping away to reveal more bag then just lifted it out to reveal a perfectly healthy soil pipe.

Pipe is plastic. I haven't gone all round the edge yet but it seems to be coming away from the pipe quite cleanly so far.

Ok for a bit of a giggle I started gently chipping away at the cement and have started to uncover what looks like a plastic bag. Do you think they might have filled a bag with cement and sat it in the waste pipe? Is this commonly done?

We used to have a downstairs toilet that was converted into an office by the previous owners. I now want to revert back to the original use of the room. On lifting the flooring I see that the toilet waste is filled with concrete. Can anyone give any tips/dos/dont's for opening it back up...

[/url] The inlet on the ball valve is that nylon plastic stuff, threaded. Would this work? [/url] Yes a tap connector fits - thread's the right size and everything.

Close off the return valve (the one that gets hot second when the heating comes on) at little bit on each of the radiators that do warm up, say 1/8 of a turn each. Then see if the cold one warms up. If not, turn them all down a shade more and feel it again.

I'm installing a toilet. The inlet on the ball valve is 10mm and, because it's a space-saver type toilet, I can't find a 15mm ball valve that'll fit inside the cistern. Does anyone know anywhere that sells a chrome compression elbow that's 15mm on one end and and 10mm on the other? Chap at...

2-0 to the light ones first then, so I'll do it that way. Thanks.

Well I couldn't judge how much to get on the pad - either not enough to get an even finish, or too much and it dripped. There must be a happy medium somewhere but you must have be really, really accurate to get it right. I find a good brush works fine so long it was cleaned well last time...

Consider this post as one more vote against paint pads. They're absolute pants. In fact, you might as well just dip some pants in the paint and wipe them on the wall .

I've papered walls a few times before and I'm reasonably confident with the general technique. Now, for the first time, I'm going to paper the living room with a pale cream wallpaper on three walls, but with dark, gaudy Laurence Llewellyn Bowen stuff on the other one. Is it better to do the...