Recent content by jmwhooper

Indeed and between that and the other picture I found it does look like a private drain :-)

Great thanks all, it does seem to tie up to a document I've now found on one of the water company sites with examples of ownership of drains.

The link below is the crude plan of the drains. The red is what's on the water company's own maps, I've added the blue lines based on what we can see from my house. The orange square is my house. We would want to connect above the manhole to the left of the house, which isn't shared with anyone...

Appreciate the reply thanks. Are you saying that if the drain is shared with a neighbour it's classed as public? On the citizens advice website it says that "If you have a private or unadopted sewer, and own a property, you are responsible for the cost of maintaining and repairing it. If the...

I'm adding an en-suite to a first floor bedroom and the new soil pipe will need to connect into the existing drain on my property. I've contact the water company to find out if the drain running down my driveway is private or public, they told me they had no records of the drains other than...

I went away without setting the alarm so thought I'd use the app to set it. However when trying a full arm and not being at the house to open and close the front door it doesn't arm. Will it arm after the set time or does the door have to be closed to set it? I've used the part arm option for...

It's a Texecom Premier Elite 24 panel. Thanks.

I've run some 8 core cable to PIRs and door contacts. In a couple of areas the PIRs and contacts are close to one another, so I ran a single 8 core to cover both. The PIR is 6 wire, the contacts are 4 wire. Can I share a positive and negative between a PIR and a contact, then use the 4 cores...

Hi I'm going to run the soil and waste from our bathroom in the loft area and want to check if there are certain things I should or shouldn't be doing. I've attached a very basic picture showing the routing of the soil and waste pipes. The soil pipe is 110mm, the wastes from the...

I've got a Viessman Vitodens 100W system boiler and a 300l Albion unvented DHW cylinder. The heating is wet underfloor downstairs and radiators upstairs. The ground floor covering is engineered floorboards. The user instructions for the boiler and cylinder are next to useless when it comes to...

OK, so it sounds like the setup can be: Dropwire to external connection box Internal cable from connection box to comms room master socket I've got a load of external grade STP cat 6 cable, I guess this would be ok to use for the internal wiring from the connection box? (probably...

Will they terminate it at a master socket or a junction box?

I want BT to come out and reconnect the drop cable on my house. My router will be located on the ground floor roughly in the centre of the house, ideally I'd want the master socket close to this. I could put in some suitable cable to run from the drop cable junction box where it comes into...

Had another look at the wiring last night. Half of the kithen is an extension and I'm pretty sure that until our new CU was fitted the sockets in the extension were on their own circuit with a separate fuse on the old fuse box. Now it seems that the RCD in the new CU for the downstairs...