Recent content by mbuckhurst

To make my wife happy I have to fit a new shower base, unfortunately this must be no wider than 760mm due to a window, but can be as long as I like, she doesn't want one 760mm square. I've spent rather too much time dealing with leaks on the old one, due to tiles butting to the base without an...

I've got a garage too small for a car that I want to partially convert to a room and have a couple of questions. The garage is attached to the house and has a cavity wall on the two external walls and a bedroom above, so is effectively another room with a garage door. 1) How should a joist be...

I'm having a new central heating system installed, complete with solar panels and a mains pressure hot water tank. I was wondering if it's ok to drink the warm water out of the tank. I was thinking during the summer, the tank is likely to be permamently full of free hot water, so wouldn't it...

I think the problem is simply too much prevailing rain on rare occasions, we get water coming through maybe 2-3 times a year, when the weather is heavy continuous rain blowing against that particular face of the wall. What is noticeable is the bricks look sodden. If there's heavy rain against...

Thanks for the reply, I think trays will suit the problem best - when we get a week of solid rain, the water coming through can be quite significant. I know the chimney has the same problem because when I had the roof repaired (unfortunately I wasn't around when the guy did it), apparently...

I've just discovered 2 major problems with my house, it's about 40 yrs old and is built in the way of the prevailing wind and rain. They've built an extension about 20 years ago, which seems to have a few issues: 1) With the ceiling stripped, after very heavy rain, a damp patch appears on the...

Ok, the story goes I had my house re-wired and a new consumer unit fitted (replacing an old fuse wire setup) by what I thought were a reputable firm, one of the MCBs failed after about 9 months, due to a number of factors I've only just got round to worrying about it (18+ months later), the...

thanks for your help, I finally got round to replacing the unit and everything works fine again, however I did find the MCB was clearly used, so I'm starting a new thread about that... cheers mike

I'm at work at the moment, but I'm sure I tried it and it felt exactly the same whether power or no power, basically as though nothing was catching when pushing it into the on position. mike

The unit is split load. I've tried resetting the whole unit from the main switch and still no joy. When I reset the MCB that seems to be duff, it simply doesn't hold, there's no force, it just fails to grip the switch in the on position. You certainly can't feel any tripping going on. I've...

I've got an MCB in my consumer unit which I think is faulty, mainly due to the fact I turned it off along with all the others trying to identify which circuit my garage sockets were connected to, from then onwards it simply refuses to turn back on, even though there is nothing plugged into the...

That's what I would expect, if it was water I'd do it myself and allocate a couple of hours to do it. The cooker point is around 6m away from the existing point, but in a straight line, there are no carpets/flooring to remove, just bare boards with enough cutouts for hatches that it shouldn't...

but if you do 2 in the same visit and move a cooker point at the same time, is this really going to cost £295 which is what the quote says. I don't mind paying a call out fee, but the way I see it this is a blatant rip-off, especially considering none of the other quotes come even close...

Stockport, not far from Manchester airport. mike

I'm about to move a cooker point from one room into the adjacent room. Although we never use the cooker point, I think it would be a good idea to have one in the new room and do it before I decorate, is it ok to run a spur from the existing cooker switch (live side) to a new cooker switch...