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Ok thanks all. I admit am surprised because previously what you describe would always have tripped one of my smaller circuits on the consumer unit, never this big one before.

Yep, as attached.

Hi all, I have a consumer unit in the house but the main fuse is next to the meter which is installed on the wall in the garage. I realise that individual circuit fuses tripping normally indicates a fault on that circuit. However, my main fuse (not the one on the consumer unit but the one on...

Hello all, I need to dig a run for some 4" underground drain pipe. It's not a massive project, just draining a small paved area and the shed roof. Its going from where I stood to take the below photo, out under the gate in the picture and to a perfect spot in my front garden. After the gate...

Thanks all, much appreciated

Hi all, There is an LED lit mirror in our upstairs bathroom. It has no fused spur. I didn't wire it in. When we go on holiday I like to turn most things off, and I've noticed that this mirror has a red power indicator which is on at all times. There is no way on the unit itself to switch it...

Great, thank you both

East Anglia - it does freeze in winter

Hi all, Just laid some ACO channel and a short concrete path in a difficult spot behind my garage. Because the concrete had "nowhere to go" I installed a 10mm foam expansion all the way around the edge. This isn't a massive area just 2.5m x 0.9m. Anyway, about the foam expansion gap, will...

Cheers, To the left of the photo, that is the cartlodge. There is a DPM under its base, which you can see poking up from the edge of the base. There is also a DPC along the top of the bricks, which the timber is resting on. Understood that it'd be a good idea to DPM the retaining wall to the...

Hi all, I have a cart lodge which is built on a concrete pad (which has a DPM underneath). On top of that is 6 courses of bricks, then a DPC, and then timber upwards from there. Behind the cartloddge there is a roughly 0.9M wide path which separates it from the shed base (to the right of the...

Thanks again for your time in responding. - On the vegetation, the picture makes it look more significant than it is. It's just annual weed growth, no big roots. I could strim it back to dust in half an hour but I've left it this year because the children have slow worms living in there...and...

Interestingly, this is the brick datasheet which says F2 for frost rating durability. Google reckons that's the best rating level..?

Hi, Thanks for your replies. The choice of brick is the same as the house, which is why they used it. I can see how frost has popped the textured faces off various bricks (but only the garden wall, not the house, which I thought was due to moisture), but I don't understand how the choice of...

Hi all Pictures attached of a retaining wall that has failed in my garden. I believe that lack of drainage has caused the failure. There is no drainage through the front of the wall or around the sides either. It seems to have failed above the first course of bricks, which themselves are held...

Hi, Just wondered on this. I've been doing DIY project for years, always mixing by hand either in a bucket or in the wheel barrow. I feel it's finally time to treat myself and fork out for a mixer, particularly since my next project is a other shed base (and a retaining wall to hold it up) to...

Thanks. Would you replace the whole roof or just the affected tiles & valley?

Thanks, appreciated

Hi all, I've a small garden wall to build this summer. It's only to be 7 courses of brick high and barely 3m long. It'll retain some soil (with drainage installed behind leading around either end of it) but isn't structural for any weight on top. I've dug out my trench for the footing and I...

My roof has an issue with the tiles splintering every time there is a frost. Each spring I scoop the pieces of tile out of the gutters to stop them travelling into the drains. There are no leaks inside the building, but I am wondering how long left I've got. I did find some of the ridge tiles...