Recent content by steven239

Hi all, This isn’t a question so much as advice for anyone google searching for 3/8 inch stop cock key problems. In 15 years as a builder I’ve not come across a 3/8 inch square end on a mains stop cock before. They are always 1/2inch, 5/8inch or have a handle. I started working on a 1970s...

Hi, Struggling to find the smaller size Canterbury Spar (3-6mm) for some dash repairs. Selco do bags but it's all 8-10mm, similarly Travis Perkins is 8mm. I'm in Lee, SE London. Cheers Steve

Hi all, I should have specified but I meant Monday as in next week. So 7 days away. Some useful points. I particularly like the idea of keeping the 110mm hidden and it will also mean less bends in the 110mm so more speed when it hits the 90 gully at the manhole. In terms of the old clay...

The breast and stack may be straight but the flue is likely to be stepped, if the flue was straight and you didn't have your pots capped then rainwater would come straight down. With a step, or more likely a 45 degree ish slope in the flue, any water that gets in has time to evaporate as air...

Hi all I have the BCO coming over on Monday to discuss the drainage for moving the bathroom downstairs. As I'm new to this, I just want to do some homework and gather some advice so I don't look like a total plonker. The house is a standard Victorian end of terrace; current arrangement has...

Spoke to SE and she said she did mean a concrete block at 7N. But we'd already bought a couple of 10.5N so she said we can use them no probs. It would have been a lot easier to trim a 140x100 lintel. Out of interest do you fellas submit your own calcs to BC, or do you do the work and then get SE...

Fine, thought it was a bit odd. So the likelihood is that when my SE said I needed a 440x215x100 padstone, she was actually referring to a 440x215x100 HDC block performing the role of a padstone and not an actual padstone? The HDC block also has the added bonus of being square! You may have...

Keeping this very basic and ignoring sizes, spans, loads etc which have all been agreed by an SE and BCO. I have one simple question that is bugging me ..... should a padstone be square? If you look at the picture below, the padstone when used in diagram A is fine even though it is not square...