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The corner posts are concreted in. The joists are fastened using 3 long screws into the frame. Down each joists there are 3 or 4 feet that support them further on to the old concrete slab patio. The feet are made of 4x2 the same as the joists, 2 lumps screwed together, one shorter to slot under...

Construction is 4x2 pressure treated joists, 400mm centres, plenty of noggins for extra strength and then, as I mentioned, lots of feet that lift the frame from the old patio and provide the slope and extra rigidity. I had an issue with a couple of joists being warped so corrected them using...

Last summer I installed some decking. Admittedly the slope I used wasn't steep enough towards the lower end but it was fine last winter. This winter, some of the boards are not draining at all at the lower end so there are puddles. What I don't understand is: - why ok last year but not...

Brush on is not really viable due to the puddling and accessibility of the area where the leak is.

I have an old concrete panel roof with a corrogated concrete roof, probably containing asbestos given the age. The roof has started leaking and, although it is getting on a bit, I'd like to get another 3 - 5 yrs out of the garage before funds allow removal and replacement. Bearing this in...

I must be more paranoid because I don't fancy working with it at all. What glue could be used on it for cladding?

We have a ground floor extension that was build in the late 1970s. It is likely the gutters, fascias and soffits are the original ones from when the extension was built. The fascias are wooden and starting to rot so I would like to replace them. The soffits look reasonable but the paint is...

Hi, thanks for the replies. I do not know the brand of gutters used as we inherited them from the previous owner. They are seamless aluminium but the corners look to have overlapping corner piece joints. They look a bit tatty and peeling to be honest. I only wish I wasn't scared of...

We have a rotten wooden fascia to one side of our house caused my a small leak at the end of one section of the aluminium gutter. The leak is caused by a small screw hole near the top of the gutter, which only became a problem when snow weighed down the gutter at that side, against the flow...

I'm thinking I will just get an electrician in to do an inspection. If any earthing needs adding then they will just have to do it with hopefully minimal disruption. I do have an installation cert dated 10 years ago to say ground floor earthing was done and upstairs fully rewired though, so...

Don't know which temperature sensor was changed. Boiler is not working at all now though, great timing! It is doing everything it should be apart from firing up/ igniting. Presumably there's no way to manually ignite a combi boiler to put us on until tomorrow?

This picture shows what the cabling is like: http://www.heluxgroup.co.uk/page/upload/modproduct_4bfb985d5f501_b1.jpg The differences being that the colours are the old ones, and the middle earth core is snipped back to the grey sheath. I'm now pretty sure it is twin and earth cable that...

Yes, serviced when the new temp sensor was fitted, about a month ago. It has been serviced regularly as far as we know, but belonged to previous owners for most of its life.

Happy New Year. :D Over the last couple of weeks our combi boiler has started playing up again. One symptom is that the heating sometimes thinks it is hot enough when it isn't. I can tell from the click on the room thermostat dial that the room is not up to temperature when it does this...

The snipped core is bare. It's a single wire in the sheath, quite thick, whereas the live and neutral either side of it are insulated and have multiple thinner wires. How can I test if it's an earth? Would a multimeter and some reading up help?

Maybe, but I don't see how it would just pull off in my hand. I've cut several bits of extra earth cable for these plates before, to link them to the back plates, and it takes some doing with a sharp stanley knife. It seems unlikely it would just snap off in my hand like that - it just looks...

I am changing a few more faceplates from cheap plastic ones to metal ones. I have done this a few times now but seem to come across new problems each time! This time, in 2 of the switches there is no earth, despite metal back boxes. The switches are a 2 way hall/landing and a 1 way landing...

No, in this case there is 1 set of cables with 6 cores. What are the dangers of having the circuit energised by two devices?

I think the confusion is because these are single sockets, all others I've changed are doubles so did still have 2 wires but going into separate terminals. The singles have 2 wires going into each one terminal. To confirm though, the single sockets definitely have 2 of each, 6 in total, wires...

If I unscrew and remove the TRV it does not appear to leak at all. Is that possible or is it just that it is able to evaporate before I notice? It is a very small leak.