Recent content by ray316

I have put concrete fence posts in and would like some help and advice on drilling for gate and driveway fittings. I have drilled the driveway concrete posts and using timber attached to the posts but when l drill through the concrete posts it crumbles a fair amount of concrete off the post on...

As you can see a few have come away and smashed , just need to know where l could get some from ..

You may not have understood my tweet, which is that l haven’t bought any bonnets yet as none are the same profile .. What can l do , or where is it best to look or get them..

Hi , Could do with some help and advice from the experts . Recently with the bad weather and storm 6 of my clay roof bonnets have came away from the roof and smashed, l’m no expert but my friend is pretty handy at these type of problems and so we have searched reclaim yards for a...

yes its low level but l cannot see bolts inside the cistern .. l thought these were to be removed from the wingnuts and then the system tank is removed..

l noticed my toilet carpet was wet around the base of the toliet and on further inspection seen it was dripping from where the system splits and the doughnut washer goes.. it is really hard to even get to the wingnuts and they are rusted up and l cannot move them , l cant get a junior hacksaw on...

Leaking from lower part of base joint to the concrete floor..

I have a outdoor toilet and we had carpet in there, but yesterday went in there and the carpet was soaking went so took the carpet up to see if l could pin point where the water is coming from . Checked all around and then flushed the system and the water in the bowl rose up and went down slowly...

Looking at drop-in anchors with tool , could this work with threaded bar in concrete wall for my awning .

I wonder if the is something l could put in time drilled hole length of the insulated wall to the concrete wall that the stud thread can be drilled through and into the concrete wall to give it a compact fitting when l tighten the wall brackets up so the brackets don’t start going into the...

The weight of the awning is 24kg so it’s overall weight is a lot less than most awnings. There is 6 brackets to put along the length of the awning, so l thought about drilling through the insulation into the concrete wall and put Threaded Bar M10 x 1m cut to length , filling the drilled holes...

Hope someone can help me out here and give me ideas how to go about this . I have a 3.5 x 2.5 m awning l would like to fix to our outside wall , but the house has in the past been wall insulated and rendered/ pebbledash. The house wall is concrete stone underneath, so can anyone come up with...

No it was already fitted when we moved into this house 25 years ago, but the dialling codes changed in mid 90’s and l’m sure there would have been a 0602 before that number but isn’t shown.. could be wrong .. But regardless of this l will get it tested and find out what the fault is and get it...

I will get it tested by a Electrician , just wanted to know if it was the RCD that this could be replaced . You are quite correct it is a older consumer unit but it’s wasn’t fitted that long ago..

Disconnected the outside socket last week and the RCD keeps tripping now and again . Sometimes doesn’t trip for a day or two , then it can trip through the night . Could it be a fault with the RCD , here is a photo of the switch. Can someone tell me where l could get a replacement switch which...