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About this time last year, I installed some lovely new cast iron rads, replacing the previous old skool skirting heating. The strange piping takes some explaining so bear with. The original pipes come out of a wall sketched on the right hand side of the pic. I needed to run new pipes behind...

Hello, We had a garden office built a couple of years back and it seems the electicians laid the armoured cable in the hedge separating us and they neighbour's properties (see photos). The neighbours have since cut back they're side of the hedge and it appears the cable has been laid on their...

Hi All, This is the kitchen worktop in a rental property we have. I'm not sure how this damage happened as we weren't notified of it and the tenants have now left (I suspect ingress of hot water). Anyhoo, the counter is very stiff and the lifted part cannot be pushed back down - does anyone...

Fair, I got the adaptor from Amazon. Weald clay - very expansive and shyte at draining, we don't have the space either - hence the application to a combined sewer. That goes straight onto the ground also. The plan was to have the whole gutter draining to the rear downpipe (the one in the...

Okay, so I should have shown this earlier, but never mind. Here is my current plan Red line = 68mm guttering Blue line = 68mm -> 40mm adaptor and connection to 4" waste pipe. So there will be very little length of the reduced diameter. The vent is inside the lean-to out building and the sewer...

Hmmm, okay. I'll try and get some photos of the layout so hopefully it will make more sense as to what I'm trying to achieve. Installing a bottle gully is not an option due to the weird layout of the building.

Yes there is a leaf guard in the gutter exit. Thanks.

Thanks. Yes, it's a combined sewer, but we applied for it as it was originally just a normal foul water one.

I have a permitted combined sewer, so the rain water can go into the waste water sewer. I have all the bits ready to take the gutter down pipe (currently just going straight onto the ground, :oops:) and connect it to the soil pipe (so 68mm -> 40mm then into existing soil pipe). My question is -...

I am in the process of converting my 8.5m x 3m garage into a home workshop. The floor is old concrete and dips ~25mm in the middle. My plan so far was: - fix up any cracks and dodgy bits in the current concrete floor - lay a liquid dpm - finish with a self levelling compound I spoke to...

Hi John, kind of something like this I think https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/wall-whitewashed-by-lime-white-color-731794246

We want to plaster a feature wall of our living room to have a natural organic finish, a bit like a "faux" lime render. It is a 19th C. house but it is a sand-cement mortar, so the work involved with a lime plaster is unnecessary. Ideally we'd have it plastered flat and add a textured layer at...

No, and it will be a workshop. Perhaps I should have said all useful comments welcome.

that seems pretty decent, thanks

Hi All, Apologies if this is roof construction 101. I recently bought an old house and the garage has zero roof insulation. The roof consists of the timber frames, battens, nails & tiles. I would like to add a membrane and insulation without dismantling or redoing any of the existing roof...