Recent content by LappyGB

It seems to have been a significant amount of water in a short space of time, considering it managed to soak the floor below. There's not been a drop since it happened.

It's got an expansion vessel and a waste pipe which runs straight to the SVP, well away from this area, I have once seen a bit of water in the loft from the tundish not long after I moved in (needed a bit of boiler servicing after that). Wasn't enough to hit the first floor ceiling though. I...

I have no idea but I've tried everything, will have to try leaving the water off for a longer period as you mentioned. I'm not getting a single drip out of anything above that ceiling. The shower tray is the type where it's tiled inside the lip so no real way for the water to escape unless via...

There is a shower waste but I've checked that and not a drop (was my first suspect!). It's also about a metre away from any of the stains. I noticed there was a hole with cables running for a socket right above the leak so even double checked the tank hasn't been spewing out water in the loft...

Hello, Went away for a couple of weeks and shut the water off at the stop cock, turned my boiler schedules off but left the boiler on so I could get the hot water going the day before I came back. Since the boiler uses a closed system I (maybe wrongly) assumed having the cold water off wouldn't...

It seems to be just a header board/infil and not structural after a bit of asking around. Not very neat work.. I achieved the same thing on the other side of the house with a 100mm holesaw after taking the plunge.

That's a 100mm pipe for an extractor fan running to the outside in the void between the ground and first floor, you can see where some outside light is coming through to the left of the pipe (another job at some point!). A notch about 2/3 the width of that beam has been cut to fit the pipe...

Hello, I had hoped this would be a simple job of drilling a 117mm hole from the outside in the void above the ground floor but the fact the house is timber frame is giving me some concerns before I just go for it. A fan is already installed in the utility and it seems they just cut a massive...

Cheers for this guys, I'm alright with the rest, plan to put smart switches in and will need to cut out the noggin to get bigger back boxes in. Just checking there wasn't some weird UK reg I'd be breaking for something relatively simple. :D

Cheers Pete!

The fan has a separate isolator, that's just a normal light switch, didn't know if they split the switches for regs or just to make it obvious it's for a separate room.

Just wondering if there's anything in the regs stopping you putting two separate switches on one outlet (with individual switches for each). For example combing these on a 3 gang:

Cheers for that, thought it might be the case, seemed odd that only 30A are widely available when 32A breakers are usually used.

Just wondering whether 30A terminal blocks are normally used on a sockets ring main with a 32A breaker for connecting individual cables. I know the terminal blocks don't meet the amperage of the breaker but my understanding is that 2.5mm cable is only rated to 27A anyway? I'm assuming that if...

This is precisely why I wanted to ask, looks a bit suspect, maybe only really intended for vehicles?