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Hi all. Thanks for your feedback. Connection here isn't very good, so have to travel to get on line. Anyhow, took your advice member of the family gave me electrician contact details from a friend of theirs. He's good and is going to run cable from the CU. It's a lot more work and more distance...

Thanks guys for your replies. The earth is connected directly to the electricity boards earth. It looks like I wont be back in contact with...……..

Can anyone help me with the old chestnut; shed electrics. I’ve got an electrician, he’s giving me the instructions for what to do and I’m doing the graft work. I’ve worked with a lot of trade guys over the years, carpenters, plumbers, plasterers and electricians. Quite a number took short cuts...

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Hoping to get some advice on removing previous paint, which I was advised by the paint store was a high standard external wood protection paint, alkyd resin based. It dried to a finish similar to gloss paint. Applied just over a year ago, it's peeling and flaking. When it rains the shed interior...

Thanks all, yes a tape repair kit can be used, however it's the location of the leak that prevents this being used. I'm afraid with the summer we've been having it's the umbrella I'll be needing instead of the SPF50, but thanks for the advice.

Many thanks for your reply. We believe the water is being lost through the liner next to the concrete. The liner is low density polyethylene 3 ply. Can you advise where the aquatic silicone can be purchased. Many thanks again for your advice.

Hi. I hope someone can help. I have just moved house and have inherited a pond. An upper and lower pond joined by a channel, all concrete constructed and completely lined with one sheet of pond liner. The channel is approx. 43cm wide x 56cm deep. it is bridged by a sandstone slab over which the...

Thank you for your response and advice, very helpful. Yes JBR, it does flow over an edge that is higher than the bottom of the upper pond. And Chud thanks for the detailed information and the link, very helpful.

Can anyone advise on how to calculate the pump flow rate required to pump the amount of water from my lower pond to the upper pond, to replace the water which has flowed out over a waterfall into the lower pond. The two ponds completely separated and the waterfall, a block of sandstone, hangs...

Phew what a mine field. Thanks John and all who answered. Main reason is a shoulder problem and spending ages under a ceiling connecting several wires will be very uncomfortable. I need to maybe reconsider the JB method. Thanks again everyone.

I understand there are two main methods of rewiring a domestic property lighting circuits. Ceiling rose and junction box methods. We were wanting to go the junction box method, however, it seems that if the JB's are being located beneath the floor boards on the first floor to provide the...

Many thanks again for the time you have taken to respond. You've really helped.

hanks mbaines1, for your time and feedback. Sorry didn't reply earlier, been away for a few days. One question, once the upper pond water level drops by approx. 1 to 1.5 inches, when the pump is not running, no more water will flow into the lower pond. It'll be trapped behind the waterfall stone...

I hope someone can help me. I'm constructing a garden pond. Two actually, with a waterfall between them. The first pond is 8'' deep 30'' long, 36'' wide narrowing down to 17'' wide. At this point it narrows to a 12'' wide channel 8'' deep and 40'' long. Over that 40'' the channel widens to 19''...