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Thankyou both. I will go for it then. It is indeed too low to connect into the white waste pipe internally, but the idea about it coming through the wall by that pipe could work. Great idea, thanks. It looks to me like it can come out as indicated on this pic: By the way, can you tell from...

Hi all, The white pipe pictured comes from my Grant Vortex oil boiler. There is nothing wrong here, except that my kids are now of an age that they want to play with basketballs etc on the patio and I can just see this getting broken. Same with the black pipe, which goes to our earth rod...

Thanks all for your responses. Screenshot attached of the same area in dry weather, taken last summer. Does seem likely to be rainwater. Agreed, I need to get up there. Thanks

P.s - looking in the eaves, I can see that the breeze block on the inside of this is dry.

Hi all, I noticed this today - the damp patch around the area where this soil vent pipe enters/exits the brickwork. It's quite high up there so I'm not exactly rushing to grab my ladder. May opt to hire a scaffold tower. Anyway, can anyone tell if this looks like this is just condensation...

Thanks very much to you all.

Sorry to resurrect this. With this approach, the sister would need notching too, same dimension as the original. Is it still worth doing?

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Thanks for responding. Wouldn't the sister also needs a notch of the same depth to accommodate the pipe?

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Hi all, This is in my own house. I'm not panicking because it has been there years (don't know exactly how many). It's in the middle of a roughly 3m span across the room (I know...) and it's probably 40% joist depth. Just one joist is notched like this. There is already a piece of ply screwed...

Ok. Lovely, thankyou.

Hiya, Yes, turned the B40 off first thing this morning. So far not detected anything not working (although I'm not in currently - will come back and confirm that this evening). I'm happy to get an electrician in for a check. I may as well attempt via the guy whose name is on the stickers since...

Many thanks again for looking at this. It seems I do have an earth rod (bottom right of these pictures). Hadn't paid any attention to it before. This is located behind the garage by the oil tank. I can travel the cables back to the main earth lead identifed next to the meter (that EricMarc...

Lovely, thanks, that does narrow it down a lot, not much on those two!