Recent content by Steve35

So I've been digging holes all weekend and it looks like what's happened is with the constant blockages we've had on this sewer over the years the pressure of water has broken the connection for the gutter downpipe onto the main drain. The clay gully/hopper part has shattered into a million...

An update on this situation. Scottish Water came out and put a camera down the pipes to check it all out. They said it was fine and they also put dye down there too to see if any leaks appeared. They had a look under the house at the water and said it was not from their sewer pipes. The guy...

So we've got a semi-detached 60's ex-council house that we've been in since 2011. Now our private sewer connections to the main public network are only about a few feet long each from a downstairs sink pipe, the toilet (down the outside wall) and the bath (which shares a pipe with next door...

Good question, but the ballast/transformer (?) is in the loft under a load of flooring so i'm currently not able to check. I've finally managed to get them to work by installing a random Halogen bulb we had sitting around, so for some reason they will work with one halogen and 2 LED bulbs in...

Needing some help here: We've got a set of 3 halogen spotlights on landing in our house, with a switch at the top and bottom of the stairs. The fittings are (according to the label on them) able to handle up to 20W halogen (MR11 type) and they currently have 14W halogens in each. We have tried...

Thanks for the replies guys. The whole set=up was put in by the previous owners, from what i've gathered from neighbours they didn't seem too worried about what they did upsetting other people so i imagine they just ran the cable up the outside of their wall as they didn't want to deal with...

Hi everyone. Me and my wife have just moved into our house a couple of months ago. In the back garden we have our own land but between our house and the one attached to use is a small set of mutually owned steps that go up to what was a washing green when the houses were council owned. Our...