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I’ve levelled the garden so now lower than both neighbours

So went with what i had lying around. Just needed to buy 8 £4 wickes slabs as had second hand ones I had kept. Slabs on the hardcore. Engineering bricks on slabs. Shed on bricks. Spread across 25 points. It’s very solid, plenty of air can circulate, no water can creep up the bricks. It cost me...

Err I don’t want to put a slab down because it’s not necessary, ott, expensive and time consuming. I’ve worked in the construction industry 42 years self employed 37 years. There’s multiple successful ways of doing just about everything if you have the inclination to plan ahead and use your...

Thanks for your input. The slabs are 400 square. The shed is below 2.5m tall. I’m thinking of 6 timbers to spread at 90degrees across the existing floor timbers. Will then place these 6 on the slabs. Probably 3 slabs to each timber. I see your point on the weight being on the shims in a small...

Thanks but want to avoid the work and cost of putting a concrete slab down. I have to fund a 2 story extension after moving the shed

Quite like the idea of fitting plastic to the bottom. I got some old slabs to sit it on on-top of some type 1. It needs raising so could put some timber across the shed base to raise it. Then pack the timber up with plastic. That will save having to build the sub base up and creating a...

As per post title. Im relocating a very good quality shed and want to stop the base from rotting. I read placing it on engineering bricks will work well as they don't absorb water. Does anyone agree this is a simple good idea. placing on dpc etc will just trap moisture in my opinion

There needs to be vertical movement in the pipes for them to be connected/disconnected to the tap. You screw 3/4 plugs onto the tap connectors to cap them. You don’t assemble everything and then pipe it rigid.

Yes. Basically the hot water on runs power to the boiler. The boiler gets hot and water gravitates to the cylinder. No wizardry Heating on runs the pump via the room stat. If you had the correct programmer then whenever you put the heating on, the hot water output is automatically triggered as...

the hot supply is being compromised with higher pressure cold water from another valve / tap. You need to figure out from where.

Usually a little switch on the back or a link to move. The heating relay needs to activate the hot water relay for gravity hot water. It seems to not be a feature on this particular model. You either need to exchange it or you could install an external relay to turn the boiler on with the...

Because the pitch is so low the rain will just run in through the slit in the felt above the flue.

Water is getting under the tiles further up and running down the felt which is obviously its purpose but rain will easily blow in through the sides as well as the tiles are pretty pizz poor. The lead slate is fine.

Scenario is vertical boiler flue through a very shallow roof with pan tiles. The roof has breathable felt. Inevitably rain found its way onto the felt and through the split in the felt, ran down the flue pipe and into the boiler. The boiler has just been replaced and the roof needs sealing...

Basically wired as per image. However i have rcbo. I think because only one side of rcbo is wired its causing it to trip. Thoughts ?

Does anyone have experience with emporia energy monitors?

I hadn’t spotted it was AC on the outlet side of the psu ! Ok will just wire supply to keypad from that. Thanks everyone. Will post up finished job

Thanks, could you possibly give me more detail on this ? Separately i was presuming 150ma was the maximum load the relay contacts would take.

So i have got a RGL KP50. Ive wired a temporary power supply using an old 12c plug i found im a draw and got it programmed at home. It has multiple relay options but just using the lock 1 set to temporarily short the sbs gate control terminals which the existing set up uses. So enter code to...

Thanks. the controller is 24v though looking at the image or is that just to drive the gates? Yes. Just want to open and close the gate separately as it currently does. The current wiring configuration does this on the sbs set of terminals being used. I think i just need to put another pair of...