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What you have created at present is a storage reservoir. Without a means of escape and it has filled with water it will 'overflow' as you have experienced. A French drain is only a means of collecting and routing water. You still have to develop a route for the collected water to run away...

Or you could fit one of these https://www.stevensonplumbing.co.uk/15mm-compression-equal-cross.html

Can I suggest you do a trial dig to see how deep you have to go to get below the clay layer (if at all). If you can get below the clay into sand or gravel a french drain at that depth will suffice.

A photo of the problem might assist

I would suggest they've dropped some rubbish into the fan when they installed it and what you are hearing is it gringding away against the impellor.

You have to turn the screw and it pulls the fuse holder back in

Clearly the right hand section of roof beam isn't getting any support from the left one that's being held by the wall. The splice joint appears to be upside down to be effective. Also the colouring on the beam undersides suggests that what you have isn't the original build. Was that two...

I would guess an electrical conduit on the basis that the coupling two tiles up from the floor isn't a gas fitting

Wrong on so many levels. Apart from the exposure of single sheathed cables, water will migrate behind the tiles into the wall substrate from both electrical and piping openings. If the original Mira unit covered both electrical and plumbing penetrations then I'd suggest you get a replacement...

"Years ago, things were not as safe as they are these days and lots of folk took care accordingly. Then we made things safer bit by bit over time. Folk got acustomed to things being safer and took risks that the older folk would be risk averse to. Result - we are now not much safer than we used...

John, the problem might not be as inconveivable as you may be suggesting. Let's assume the back box isn't connected via a cpc loop and relies upon the somewhat 'loose' IET guidance of using the faceplate screws. In normal circumstances this may well be ok. Now assume that someone decides to...

That last photo you have shown in response 26 is a real and serious concern. 2 live wires (switched or otherwise) have been 'joined' together, covered in tape and then one of them inserted into the switch. There is visual evidence of some other wire being wrapped in tape. There also appears...

Plastic face-plates still use steel or brass fixing screws so the argument about a loose wire contacting the unearthed back-box and hence making the fixing screws on the face-plate live still stands. If you are concerned about the rest of the work they did, open up each switch plate and submit...

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From cpc wago (1) to back-box and from cpc wago (2) to face-plate. Other three cpc leads (3,4 and 5) into wago (ie 5 in total) Other opinions will vary :giggle: Do not replace any of the wago units unless you've first isolated the power at the consumer unit

All back boxes and metal face-plates should be connected to the cpc but more importantly it appears that the 2-way Wago connectors each have three wires inserted. The wago connectors can only have 1 wire per point so you need to change the neutral wago to a 3-way version and the cpc one to a...

Should be capped off, otherwise if the valve passes you'll have water leaking out

It would have made much more sense if he had fitted the studs loosley into the wooden post before he set them into the resin. This would have avoided any linear or angular misalignment preventing the post being fitted once the resin had set.

Isn't that what the temperature control on a thermostatic shower for ? His and Her sets it to suit. Are you sure you actually have a thermostatic control valve and not justy a simple mixer valve.

What's her problem: too low a flow rate or too cool water To some extent the output of a combi to a shower is a compromise between flow temperature and flow rate. If you increase flow beyond the thermal capability of the boiler then the water will run cooler. Fitting a pump to boost flow...