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Hi guys, it's been a while! We're planning a driveway project and the surface isn't permeable so we'll need drainage. The area of the driveway will be approx 40m². It's the whole front garden. 2 years ago we had extensions built front and back and the builders tied the roof drains in to the...

Hi, I have the above fridge freezer. It's about 4 years old. I've noticed the compressor appears to be running longer than usual. In fact I think it's running continuously. I have touched the compressor and it is hot. The compressor does turn off for defrost - I've heard it do this in the last...

Hi chaps. I've been in the garden today doing some tidying, unnetting the pond etc. I noticed the moss in my lawn has got very bad over the winter. There were patches last year but nothing as bad is it is now. Pretty much the whole lawn is now infested. Worth pointing out that for the last...

So here's my problem. I've had an extension built on the back of the house and the kitchen is now a completely internal room apart from the knock-through into the extension. Where the cooker is, is now a party wall. The current kitchen is the old kitchen that I've repositioned. However it is to...

The water is fairly hard. But no, no extreme violence. Back to the subject... See attached diagram. The purple shows next doors extension. The blue shows our proposed extensions - front and back. The yellow is the proposed branch from the blue lead pipe. Clearly if I were to replace the whole...

The pipe where it goes under my new extension only supplies my adjoining neighbour as far as I know. Between our two extensions will be a gap approx 150mm. If I were to replace the pipe under our extension that would leave a joint - a weak point - in that 150mm gap. I'd rather not have that. If...

The shared main will continue under the new extension to my neighbours. It then goes under their extension, all in lead.

Were having an extension built on the back of the house. The foundations are exactly where the water meter chamber is. So the meter needs moving. A few years ago we had it all excavated to allow us to replace the lead entering the house with mdpe. We're on a shared water main. Nobody else is...

I am in the process of building a budget driveway - we're having an extension on the front built later in the year which will affect the driveway, so as I said, this is temporary, being forced by the purchase of an EV and the council saying I cant charge it across the pavement. The driveway will...

Picture below. Wondering if anybody here can help with this. At the moment I have a newish sky router on an old copper line. It is in an unfortunate position on the hallway windowsill in the front corner of the house, where the master socket is. Reception is poor in both large bedrooms and the...

Okay a meeting has been arranged for this Thursday with HR. My team leader will be there too. My points in mitigation and lines of enquiry are: I was never officially provided with a list of salaries for year 1-4. My actual annual salary isn't printed on the pay slip. I was never told if the...

But I was due Pay rise anyway, I just didn't know how much...

My manager sat me down today. He's had an email from HR regarding my pay. Between September 2020 and August 2021 I was overpaid £620. They're now after claiming this back from me, and my manager is arranging a face to face meeting with HR for me. I'm an apprentice. The time period above...

Won't the existing foam insulation have sealed off any air flow in the cavity. I'm not sure of the cavity depth but fairly sure it isn't the full 100mm currently required. I did poke a hole through recently for a cable and I reckon it was 60mm tops.

My house is 50s built with cavity walls. It has cwi already, it's the soft brittle foam stuff that turns to powder when you touch it (there were two massive bergs of the stuff in the loft when we bought the house). Anyway, I recently did a job for somebody local in a similar house and they'd...

A few options. Either use a bracket with a large footprint on the wall so the bracket covers at least one stud. Or use plasterboard anchors that need a setting tool - these are the most secure fixing for plasterboard. Or long screws into the brick behind. Insert a drill bit to find out how...

Yes I usually work alone. I have helped an electrician on a job before and billed my time as an insured handyman to the customer separately. For the moment I'm just paying my helpers out of my own money. This has tax implications for me so it's a learning I'm taking forward for definite! And...

Had it from day one. Cheers.

I've been doing handyman jobs for a few years now. Little bits here and there alongside a full time job, then later an apprenticeship. I've managed to stay under any tax threshold, only doing odd little £20-50 jobs. I have liability insurance, but no other aspects of business setup. I recently...

I'm replacing Bath taps for a friend. Should be a straight swap as the new tap is pretty much identical to the old one. But what tools will I need? I don't mind buying basic plumbing tools. The taps are against a wall, side access from the bath panel only. I'm guessing I'll need some kind of box...