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Great thanks Hugh, I'll try and expose a bit more if it ever stops raining here. Will pop out with a tape measure to confirm the size before buying too. I'll shove some washing up liquid around it before pulling and see how the current seal copes, I did shine a light down the pipe and couldn't...

I've got these two broken rodding eye points in our garden that I ought to get fixed. I was hoping to just buy new covers for both but it doesn't appear that you can just buy the covers and end up with the whole assembly... I broke the middle of this one above taking down a brick wall. I need...

I don't think it's filling the blue and overflowing as there's pretty good flow out of the drain holes if I pour a jug of water down there - much more than the amount of rain that would get past the seal. Perhaps it's leaking through the seal between the glass and the frame and dripping down to...

We bought our 1996 townhouse a few years back and occasionally have issues with the french doors on the 1st floor Juliet balcony. I suspect they're the original doors from when it was built and we do need to replace them as they're not the most airtight in winter but I was hoping to put that off...

Do you mean in the camera junction box or the conduit? Surely conduit would be water tight?

The top entry hole is for the actual camera entry. I think the connection block has been designed so that even if water enters through the top, it's not going to come into contact with any of the connections inside due to the direction. Either way I'll likely pop some silicone around the top and...

No different to going up to a JB on the side for entry is there in terms of exposed cable?

Unless I'm missing something the side/bottom access notches you see in the base is just big enough for a ethernet cable, they're not remotely close to 20mm in diameter?

I'm currently in the process of fitting a couple of external PoE cameras to our townhouse property and have a query around fiting the conduit, more so around how the ethernet cable should exit it whilst keeping the conduit waterproof. The camera in question is the "Reolink Duo 2 Floodlight"...

Sounds good to me! I think I've discovered what I need now, something like the "MCALPINE PUSH-FIT SINGLE SOCKET DRAIN CONNECTOR BLACK 110MM" into the drain (this was the key bit I was missing) and then perhaps a "FLOPLAST PUSH-FIT 92.5° SINGLE SOCKET BEND BLACK 110MM" onto the 90° pan connector...

Found some spare "2 x 1.0 + 1.0" cable lying around (I believe used for lighting circuits). Looks like ideally that would be + 1.5 to match the circuit, I'll pop to wilko and grab some with some sleeving later. Thanks!

Currently redoing a bathroom myself (slowly). I've had a plumber and electrician out to do some of the more challenging changes but trying to learn and do as much of it myself where safe/sensible to do so. The toilet is moving from one side of the bathroom to the other and was expecting to...

I didn't get the email notifications for these replies, apologies but thanks for the replies. No need to change the whole backbox, there's nothing wrong with it as-is. Yep there's a rubber grommet around the cable entry point. I'll have to dig around but I don't think I've actually got any...

Doing a bathroom refit at the moment and bought a new chrome shaver socket to replace the old plastic one. I pulled the old one off (after isolating the mains) and found it's a metal back box - which isn't surprising as most in our 1996 house are. Would I be right in thinking the bottom screw...

I generally always knock off the mains breaker before doing anything that could be near electrics so I'll be safe either way. I'm just trying to do the work in a way that doesn't mean I have to call the electrician to patch up some torn cables! I can patch up drywall, I can't patch up mains cables.