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About 4 or 5 years ago we had an issue with our Gloworm boiler where it came up wit F22. It is a conventional boiler and we don't use it a great deal, if it all for the warmer months. We use electric for hot water and don't have any heating on. We tend to start to use the heating in Nov time and...

Just to update a little on this... The title deeds showed a covenant allowing the electricity board to access the land to maintain and replace underground cables. The cable shown on the map for the covenant actually runs in the neighbouring field about 4m away from this inspection chamber...

I've got a big SDS cordless Makita plus a couple of smaller Makita combi drills. I was looking at a petrol two handled auger at £185, not much more than £1 per post and could probably resell it after. Seems better value than hiring especially if I'm going to do it over many days...

It is a funny one as I'm extremely busy, however I quite enjoy doing things like this because it is very different to my regular job. There is also no rush to get it done, so I can spend a few hours each weekend for a few months to get it done. I would like to have something that will do the...

I've got a decent cordless SDS - is that good enough to drill many 4" holes in the soil?

I need to add a fair bit of fencing (200m or so) It is going to be 100mm round posts (1.8m). With rails. I need to keep costs as low as possible and don't mind it taking a while to do, but we will need to put 100-150 posts in. I was thinking about one of the petrol augers with a 4" auger bit...

Pipe replaced. It now runs down the drive and then through the floor and into the garage, then along the wall. New stop tap fitted then 15mm pipe to join to where the old stop was. On the first section the leak was actually on a join. There was a brass join about half way down the drive and it...

Yes it is on my property, so isn't a question of if the water board are liable it not. Now it is a question on whether or not it is covered under insurance. The insurance are saying if it is damaged say from vehicles going over, it from tree roots, it if I'd put my spade through it, then it...

It is 43 years old. The water board told me that it has a lifespan of 40 years but I've also been told it has a lifespan of 100 years.

That sounds about right. The water board turn off the stop in the road, then remove the meter or the plug where the meter would go and connect up a pipe. They then ask you to turn off the stop tap in the house. They then pump a gas mix into the length of pipe. They then use a sniffer machine...

Well we ended up speaking to the home insurance who sent someone out for most of the day yesterday to look at it. They dig a hole at the top of the drive and a hike at the bottom of the drive and were able to work out that there was a leak between the top and the bottom of the drive. They then...

Yes, in our back garden we have a manhole cover for a shared sewer, it feeds from some of the houses up the road as well as ours joining in. Ours joins at this point, but you can see water running from further up, not a massive flow rate but it runs all the time with clear water. Our supply pipe...

The three of them are all on the top of that. They are basically touching each other they are that close together. The two outer covers are those heavy concrete ones. The centre one is a metal cover with CEGB written on it. I have found that CEGB stands for Central Electricity Generation Board...

They keep saying it must be on our part of the pipe but when they do the gassing it comes out at the shut off valve in the maintenance strip at the top of our drive. We have no signs of subsidence, no hairline cracks etc. We live on a hill so I imagine the water is finding somewhere to go very...

I've searched for planning permission but there has never been any applications according to the portal. There used to be some kind of building in the neighbouring field. It shows up on historical maps but not on anything post 1950. There are three of these manhole covers in a row. I only...

Agricultural but no buildings near here. Closest buildings are a few fields away in 4 directions.

Ok, a bit of a story to start... Back in Feb, I saw a man in an orange jacket opening the flap at the top of the drive where the water shut off valve goes and looking a stick down and putting his ear to it before wandering off to the next house. A week later Severn Trent phoned to say they...

A property in looking at has three manhole covers together which didn't add up to being any of the usual things. On lifting one of the manhole covers, I could see this on the wall inside. I am presuming that they are mains electricity supply lines? If they are... Does the utility company...

It is a concealed cistern. The cistern is wall mounted in the unit behind the toilet. The old flush valve failed, so I removed the cistern from the wall. Then removed the flush valve. The old one was 60mm so I purchased another that said it would work with 60mm. However when fitting it is...

Our flush valve on the toilet had failed. I think the cable was jamming so the valve wouldn't close and the cistern kept running. I measured the old diameter which was 60mm and purchased a fluid master dual flush valve from Wickes which said it was compatible with 50mm and 60mm outlets on the...