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I've just shown my wife this post and she has an alternative solution: She thinks you might be ok if you use a bigger bucket? :roll:

ahem... i really should get a life :D

Don't forget that you will be entitled to various subsidies for the work! Your local energy supplier will usually give a subsidy (premie) for new boiler, and the gemeente (local council) may add to this too - they have details on their web pages, but there is a global subsidy-finder at...

There's no problem except when it rains very heavily - a normal shower drains no problem. I don't think that the problem is with a blockage or the positioning of the gutter - i got (very!) wet the other day on a ladder in a torrential downpour checking it, and the gutter got totally full before...

Thanks for the reply masona - I've checked and everything seems clear, but I think that the gutter just isn't big enough for the amount of water needing to be got rid of. What I'm wondering is whether a bigger gutter, with the same downpipe, would help - or would that just mean that the...

Whenever it rains heavily, the gutter from the roof at the back of our house overflows and water runs down the side of the house. It is an 8cm semi-circle cross-section gutter, going into an 8cm downpipe (at one end of the gutter), draining nearly 100 square metres of roof. I can't (easily)...

I'm not a qualified electrician, but I rewired my own house in Belgium during a renovation (most people do this sort of thing themselves here!), so i'll do my best to help... Ring mains don't exist here - everything is radial Socket circuits use 2.5mm wiring with (usually) a 16amp trip on...