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Nice. Could this somehow drain into waste water drain? Unsure how that connection would work, in terms of smell prevention!

The rear wall of our outbuilding forms part of the boundary of our property. Recently there has been a lot of damp coming through the walls inside the building at a low level, it's rotted the wood battens and the plasterboard completely. When I stripped the plasterboard back, after a heavy...

The ancient plastic roof on our conservatory has failed following a freak hail storm recently and is leaking in several places. I want to replace it with a slate tiled roof but I'm unsure if this is possible due to the weight. The conservatory is rectangular, about 3m x 5m. Two of the edges...

No but neither is digging up the carpark.

I am helping out the village hall in our village, the committee want to extend the network in their main building to another building about 20 yards away, another local chap has offered 50m of network cable he has lying around, they want to do this as cheaply as possible (well actually they...

Very helpful, thank you. Good to know about the possibility of Lead Paint too.

Removing it from the site is not an option due to the defibrillator already installed.

I've volunteered to help restore a red phonebox in our village that was bought by the Parish and now houses a defibrillator. It's actually in pretty good condition but needs all new glass and paint. We've got a source for the glass and the paint but my question is on the prep work. Would you...

It's a 1884 cotswold stone schoolhouse, approx 400mm stone walls throughout, rendered on the inside when it was converted. I'll dig up a few pictures. Cheers.

We have an old 1880s stone building with various floor coverings downstairs, we've discovered through lifting a few bits here and there that the flooring is simply layed over the original flagstones, which themselves appear to be layed directly on the earth (we guess this because we often get...

Yeah, I'm slightly different, in that they only obstruct the pavement and only when moving like in the diagram below. Altering the hinges is not really an option as the rise would need to be about 8 inches. At this point the gates have been there for so long I can't imagine anyone is going...

Hi all, We have a very old (1800s) property that has double iron gates that open outward due to a rising driveway that makes inwards opening not possible. We would like to automate them for convenience (and security, as being manual we tend to leave them open). All of the information I can...

Is it acceptable to run T+E cable in conduit along a fence to a shed? The alternative would be burying it but the route goes through mature flower beds and would be very disruptive.

Yes, but only for the cable exits.

After talking to National Grid it seems this is a bloody complex operation. They said that in order to remove/replace the meter box I may need to arrange the attendance of up to four different contractors simultaneously. 1. National Grid to turn off the supply (free of charge) 2. My...

We've had some pretty sideways torrential rain the last few days and at some point the RCD for my EV charger tripped. I went to reset it today and noticed that the inside of my meter box is absolutely sodden. Not dripping wet as such but the cork backing board that everything is screwed to is...

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...