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I think I do see what you mean, thanks! Well, I guess if them's the rules, them's the rules. Thanks for your help.

In that case I guess it might be more trouble than it's worth!!! There's quite a distance from the street to the house and I don't fancy messing with the house (which would mean drilling up and then repairing quite a bit of concrete and then running 150' of new pipe back to where it's come...

Hoping someone can give me some guidance, or bit of a sense check, re teeing off the mains water supply pipe running up the front garden, to provide an outside tap. The back story: Our mains supply pipe has been cut through inadvertently (not by me!!). The original pipe was black plastic (house...

Excellent. I'll give it a go and see. Thanks for the help!

Ah right, thanks! Is it likely I'll need to reset pressure on the accumulator after its been emptied and refilled, or should that just take care of itself as it was??

It was still running after 5-10 mins, when I decided to give up, turn the mains back on and seek advice. That seems too long for just water in the pipes, but perhaps not long enough to drain a 100 litre accumulator (if that is how the accumulator works??).

Hello folks. So our mains water supply pipe got severed (not by me) and temporarily replaced so working fine but lying on the surface. Now have the new trench dug and new MDPE supply pipe and correct fittings all ready to go. I've been out to the street (new-ish square plastic box with meter...

Ah right, sounds like the right answer. Presumably I can just remove the existing downlight and transformer and connect new mains voltage IP65 led downlight, hopefully I can get it done through the hole, since the space above the ceiling is extremely tight and hard to get to!

Thinking about it, apart from cost, and the risk of damaging the ceiling finish, would it make more sense to replace the downlighter fittings themselves with GU10 ones that are bathroom-suitable? ie take out the transformers and downlighter fittings and replace with new GU10 fittings.

They're Robus ones, don't seem to be earthed.

Yes, they have a glass cover which is part of an assembly that clips onto the bulb and then "push fits" snugly into the recessed housing. Hope that makes sense!

I wonder if I can once again get some advice from you good people. We have a bathroom with 50w 12v MR16 halogen downlights, including one directly over the bath and one above the shower. Each downlight is connected to its own transformer, rated 35w-120w. A couple of bulbs went, and while it's...

The remainder of the building is brick and block with cavity, as far as we can tell. It's only the centre section of the back wall (i.e. just the bit that's behind our garage and the old party wall) that's single brick. The neighbour suffering damp or other issues once it's exposed and laying...

I think it's unlikely we'd want to use it... I'd like to keep things separate once we've got them properly separate! I guess it's a question for the surveyor, but I suspect the neighbour will be left with their garage wall - which I think is single-thickness brick - facing the elements. If it...

That's sound advice!

Ha ha! I did wonder!!! I thought about possible asbestos but can't see why there would have been - it just seems to be the original brick party wall from the old house. I don't really understand why it was left there, though, not taken down when he built the new building (could have put a new...

Here's a photo of the offending article. Where it looks wet is just hardener going off.

So we have a brick garage that's structurally unsound and needs to come down, but it's attached to the neighbour's garage. Originally, there was a semi-detached bungalow, over time each owner has knocked down their half and built a detached house behind, and built a garage where their half of...

Sorry will attempt to get a photo. Pretty sure there's no rising damp; the shed was in a poor state of repair for many years before we arrived and prior to replacing the roof (which I did last year) looks like water had been running down onto one particular part and once it had started to rot...

We have a large garden shed, it's a substantial timber framed thing and one end has a glazed door in the middle and glazed panels either side, all mounted on top of a hardwood threshold/step that's actually part of the structure. i.e. the whole end wall structure seems to have been built on top...