Recent content by Chris Brennan

The garden wall at the outlaws house (see picture) is bowed quite badly. It has been like this for a few years. Have been asked to fix it, but want to know if I'm taking on too big a job. My plan is to take a row or bricks off one at a time and dig out the soil behind, put some weep holes at...

Thanks, According to the neighbour, there used to be proper formed flag stones with a shallow channel that ran to the drain, but the kitchen was moved from left to right and a new pipe laid, to run back to the original drain. The flag stones were dug up to lay the new pipe and concrete...

Thanks for the reply, I was hoping for a less, shall we say, labour intensive solution. Aren't we all? Will have to reassess what I was going to do and get professional help in!

Hi, I've attached an image to this post to help illustrate what I'm saying as, no doubt, I'll talk myself in circles here. We have a waste pipe (sink, dishwasher, w/machine), which runs along the back of our house to the pre-existing drain. The pipe was covered in concrete with a channel...

Right. Cool thanks for that. Why are there single wires connected to the lights? I don't understand why the black wire is snipped back and unused in one cable and the red wire snipped back and unused in the other. The setup I have here doesn't seem to match anything I can find in any...

Erm.. I don't have a multimeter. I thought I'd just do a quick change yet managed to screw it up by not taking enough care to look at the cables. If I get a multimeter and the resistance does change what should I do?

Hi All, I'm going to qualify this post with "I know I should have looked before I unscrewed the cables but...erm... I didn't" Anyhow... I have a kitchen light that is controlled by two separate switches. I unscrewed the ceiling rose to replace it but none of the guides I've looked at here...