Recent content by Seb101

Nice. Could this somehow drain into waste water drain? Unsure how that connection would work, in terms of smell prevention!

The rear wall of our outbuilding forms part of the boundary of our property. Recently there has been a lot of damp coming through the walls inside the building at a low level, it's rotted the wood battens and the plasterboard completely. When I stripped the plasterboard back, after a heavy...

The ancient plastic roof on our conservatory has failed following a freak hail storm recently and is leaking in several places. I want to replace it with a slate tiled roof but I'm unsure if this is possible due to the weight. The conservatory is rectangular, about 3m x 5m. Two of the edges...

No but neither is digging up the carpark.

I am helping out the village hall in our village, the committee want to extend the network in their main building to another building about 20 yards away, another local chap has offered 50m of network cable he has lying around, they want to do this as cheaply as possible (well actually they...

Very helpful, thank you. Good to know about the possibility of Lead Paint too.

Removing it from the site is not an option due to the defibrillator already installed.

I've volunteered to help restore a red phonebox in our village that was bought by the Parish and now houses a defibrillator. It's actually in pretty good condition but needs all new glass and paint. We've got a source for the glass and the paint but my question is on the prep work. Would you...

It's a 1884 cotswold stone schoolhouse, approx 400mm stone walls throughout, rendered on the inside when it was converted. I'll dig up a few pictures. Cheers.

We have an old 1880s stone building with various floor coverings downstairs, we've discovered through lifting a few bits here and there that the flooring is simply layed over the original flagstones, which themselves appear to be layed directly on the earth (we guess this because we often get...

Yeah, I'm slightly different, in that they only obstruct the pavement and only when moving like in the diagram below. Altering the hinges is not really an option as the rise would need to be about 8 inches. At this point the gates have been there for so long I can't imagine anyone is going...

Hi all, We have a very old (1800s) property that has double iron gates that open outward due to a rising driveway that makes inwards opening not possible. We would like to automate them for convenience (and security, as being manual we tend to leave them open). All of the information I can...

Is it acceptable to run T+E cable in conduit along a fence to a shed? The alternative would be burying it but the route goes through mature flower beds and would be very disruptive.

Yes, but only for the cable exits.

After talking to National Grid it seems this is a bloody complex operation. They said that in order to remove/replace the meter box I may need to arrange the attendance of up to four different contractors simultaneously. 1. National Grid to turn off the supply (free of charge) 2. My...