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Hi, I have just painted my back gate in black gloss paint a couple of weeks back. I have been having a bit of work done on the driveway so the gate needed a wipe but after wiping it when it dries you can see mark where the water was. Is there anything to use to stop these marks or is it...

Hi, Thanks for the reply. So if I was to do the last option which sounds like the best one (I'm in the middle of getting my pation re-laid so it wouldn't be too much trouble) would this be whats needed: Fit a 90 degree bend and then add one of these and for the other 2 pipes just...

Hi, My external drain has 3 pipes going to it, one from the gutter/bathroom, one from the washing machine and one from the kitchen sink. Pretty much all 3 of them splash everywhere as you can see from the picture. Could anybody give me some advice on the best way to fix this...

Hi, We have had an electrian round today and he has said that I would need an RCD at the consumer unit end regardless of whether I have consumer unit in the garage which has RCD protection. The example used was if something was to cut through the cable in the garden, there is no RCD...

Ok great and this passes building regs ok? Ie it isn't a requirement to have an RCD at the house consumer unit end as long as the garage consumer unit has one? Thanks, Dan

Thanks for all the replies. It looks like it could be quite a big job. Is there a way at all that it can be done which will pass regulations that doesn't involve a new consumer unit as this seems the bulk of the price. If it has to be changed then it has to be changed but it just seems a...

Thanks for the reply. Regarding the house CU. I'm unsure of the answer to these questions. When changing the consumer unit, if you currently have a working consumer unit and just want to upgrade to a better one do any of these questions have any bearing on the cost of the job if I'm not...

There are numerous threads on here and on the internet where electricians are having conversations about how much they charge to replace a consumer unit so there must be a general guide/price for this otherwise these conversations would be pointless. By reading these threads I have got an...

Hi, I'm looking to get a couple of quotes this weekend so I can have power in the garage. My current setup is a consumer unit with 4 circuits all being used. From what I have read on here it sounds like this is going to be needed to be replaced. A bit of info, the garahe is about 6...

Here's another pic, I'm getting that whole wall pointed (and a better brick match where that door was bricked) but also a little bit round the front which you can just see in the picture. Does this look like a lime based or cement based mortar? What type of place would I get the morat...

Thanks for the reply. Has anybody got any idea how I would get a close match on the mortar? Thanks, Danny

Hi, I'm getting some pointing done soon and I'd like to replace some bricks where a door was bricked up and the brick match used is a completely different colour. Has anybody got any idea what this brick is called or how I would describe it. If it helps the house is about 60 years old...

Thanks for the replies. I understand that permeable block paving is a bit more expensive but ignoring the cost, visually do they both look the same when laid and with the gaps being filled with what looks like small stones instead of the normal sand, are weeds/seeds more likely to embedd in the...

Hi, My grandma had a concrete driveway installed a couple of years ago with a couple of paths coming off it. When the main path to the house was iced up/frozen, to clear the ice she broke it up by hitting the ice with the other end of a wodden broom and then scraped the broken ice with a...

Hi, I am looking at getting my driveway block paved. Permeable block paving has been suggested but other than the environment benefity I can't find much info about how it compares against normaly block paving when it comes to maintenance/weeds growing through gaps and is it expected to last...

Great thanks for the help. So once I have found the other end of it under the floor is it just a case of somehow blanking it off and then removing the pipe from the wall? It's not near any radiators and we have had the heating system drained without it since we have lived in the house so...

Hi, Is this the sort of thing you would get from a reclamation centre? It's a pretty basic rectangular gate post top but as you can see part of it's cracked off. If you look at it from this picture there seem to be some metal in it so it looks like more than just a concrete slab...

Hi, I was wondering if somebody could tell me what this: It was a copper colour, but we got this stuff painted on the tarmac drive and they painted over the pipe so it is now that black/grey colour. The reason I'm asking is we have been in the house 3 years, never needed to do...

Thanks for the replies. Yes I'll be getting somebody into do it. I'm just trying to get an idea of options I have. One of my concerns in getting a new consumer unit is that a friend who has done a bit of electrics said new consumer units are a lot less fault tolerant than older style ones...

Hi, In a couple of months I'm am looking to get my driveway re-done so this will be an ideal time to have power ran to my garage. I won't be doing any of this work myself but I'm just trying to work out roughly what is going to be needed. My current consumer unit has 4 breakers which...