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Cheers. Very odd = amateur job. We discovered from a neighbour a few doors down after we moved in that our previous owner did most of the work converting the 1880s building by himself. When it was sold to us they played the old-lady card, she “couldn’t remember“ who did the work as it was so...

The house we bought has 3 lighting circuits with 16A MCBs, most of the loops are done with 2.5mm T+E but I’ve discovered as we’ve been decorating that a lot of the spurs, drops and internal fixture wiring is either 1.5mm or 1mm flex/T&E. This is inherently unsafe right? The consumer unit is...

Correct, there is a ceiling above the window line, leaving a small accessible loft space above, where these vents reside. The roof is felted, the tiles have been replaced with modern slates during the conversion. Adequate insulation however, there is not (this needs fixing in any case) and I'm...

We moved into an old school building (built circa 1880) that was converted by turning the each of the 2 high-roofed halls into 2-storey accomodation. The roof spaces have been left with the original timbers. At the end of each of the halls the gables have these old fashioned ventialtion...

Please help. I cannot fathom these instructions for this free-standing bath filler https://images.victorianplumbing.co.uk/images/PDF/TRAD03D-FS-nEW.pdf It seems to assume you are able to get under the floor to attach the supply end of the feed pipes to the hot and cold supply after you have...

Might be a stupid question, but how do you know it‘s just heating the water and not running the central heating?

Well, it was a bastard of a job as expected, had to re-route all the pipe work, reinforce most of the joists in two places (once for the large notch in the centre, once around the new waste). In the end the waste boss turned out to be rather easy, I couldn’t get the clip around so I just cut it...

I’ve picked up this boss collar which is more slender than others I‘ve seen, I think with a bit of effort and swearing I should be able to fix it around the pipe. Question… what do I seal the inside edge with? Solvent weld glue? Are all soil pipes compatible with solvent glue?

The bath is the opposite side of the room, thankfully. The holes for the waste are by far not the most concerning holes/notches. These 8”wide notches cut by whoever did the central heating are right in the middle of the 3m joist span. By a small mercy they align right in the centre of a 60cm...

It does, but thankfully it’s only a 2m span (5 joists) so I believe I can get the drop required with holes within a reasonable tolerance of the joist centreline. I’ll brace it witch some steel strapping above and below also.

The shower is the issue, want a low-profile tray in there so the waste outlet will be below the floorboards before it’s even started. I’m going to try and put a boss adaptor below the lip of the bottom pipe so it’s right at the bottom of the joist, the boxing below is fairly generously...

Hi all, Renovating my bathroom at the moment and discovered that the previous plumber had put the waste pipe for the sink/bath/shower into the vertical sewage pipe above the floor level (meaning all of the wastes were ultimately flowing uphill - which explains the poor drainage in the room!)...

Forgive the casual terminology, it's a CU with RCDs yes.

My new property has an TT earth but at some point someone has put block paving over the earth spike location making it unservicable/uninspectable, although it is within acceptable impedance limits currently. The property also has a PME supply which is currently not connected to the installation...

Hi all, When installing a 3-core SWA cable on a single phase installation where one of the internal cores is being used as the CPC, is it still required to earth the SWA armour layer? Thanks!

Ultimately something will have to be done to the extension CU in any case as I need to install a 32A EV charger in the garage as well!

Thats my worry, how much of the system was a DIY/cost saving bodge. Thanks for the advice everyone, ultimately you're right, the cost of remedying the extension/outbuilding CUs is fairly low, and even if it needs a complete re-wire it's a small % of the house cost.

The main CU has a 40A MCB supplying the extension CU via 6mm T+E which has: 1x 40A for electric shower 1x 32A for living accomodation sockets 1x 16A for garage sockets 4x 6A for garage lights, living accom lights, exterior lights and smoke detectors. Then another 40A MCB supplying the outhouse...

Hi all, We're looking to buy a house at the moment. The property is generally sound but even to my partially knoweldgable eye there are some serious defects with the electrics, including: - Undersized conductors for circuits - Inappropriate MCB specification and circuits for applicances -...

This stuff? https://roofstores.co.uk/remix-rooftile-bedding-mortar-20kg?gclid=Cj0KCQiAmKiQBhClARIsAKtSj-naY-MTc_9owmSbNuN8UAwlWoTGQ6qo5RWsni18h1mnsSpRPE-JkOwaAt0gEALw_wcB cheers