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I went up into the loft and checked the header tanks, everything seems dry and I can't see any signs of any leaks. The damp starts at the base of the tank, but there are pipes under the floor too. But the water is working it's way along the wall, see attached... I'm just worried the tank is...

Hello all, silly question here but pls advise. As it's almost Christmas, the heating has to go on the blink of course. Just had the boiler done a couple of weeks ago but today we've noticed a bit of damp ingress has now become a full-on drip. Got about the bathroom cupboard and checked all...

Hey @mrcrow, the ceiling looks good. Very pro! I am about to do the ceiling in my garage, and have been thinking about different options. Could you give me an idea of the cost roughly of the frames and tiles necessary to do that ceiling? I was thinking about pine cladding with recessed LV LED...

My garage at the moment is completely basic, just a concrete floor, brick walls and a timber roof. It's full of boxes of stuff, a couple of bikes, and well... you know the score. So I've decided to put a ceiling in and floor it so that I can use storage above, and tidy up the ground level for...

Well, actually some good news here. Things not as bad as I thought. I've traced the cable back, and what I thought was a spur off the ring main is actually a spur directly from the CU. It's connected via a Hager 32A MCB and there's no other loads on the feed. So I feel a lot more comfortable now...

That's the temporary plan. A 13A DP fused switch, which will fee 3 double sockets. Not great, but I know the limitations until I can get a leccy man to sort a proper ring main. I mean, I'm going to need a proper double socket in the garage for my man-tools.

LOL! So I guess you're saying just replace the fuse and connect up again! I can see what your saying but with an unfused double socket feeding all that stuff it could pulling a constant 25A on the spur without blowing anything, which isn't great! There's also some really bad terminations and...

Hello All, After a power cut in my garage conversion (done some 10+ years ago by the owners-before-previous) and an examination into the electrics, I discovered a right disaster, posted elsewhere for others' general amusement...

The previous owners were in the house for 10 years, and this work was done prior to them buying the house, so we're looking at 2005 latest. But I mean, I know, not only is it an utterly **** job, but he used bright orange garden cable as if to say - look how mega **** I can be!!! Had a right...

Yup, that's for a radiator in one of the rooms. Unbelievable because there was absolutely no need - as you can see it's not floored or covered, and there's an older (soldered) joint and pipe passing over the joists as well. As I say, I've been in the house a couple of months, I think I'm going...

Yes, will move to the leccy room!

Oh yeah, I thought about that. But the extension is really just a sort of garage conversion - the roof and walls are all original, really just internal battening and plasterboard. Nothing complex about it, and nothing structural. But it looks like they've got some dumbo mate to just rig up...

Sitting on the PC today, just about to start a game of tanks. Sunday morning, just had breakfast, kids all playing happily... lovely. PC dies instantly, lights go off. I mutter "oh *******s" and wander through to tell them all there's been a power cut. But there hasn't. TV is on okay, and wife...

Thanks. Was more the intrusion of screws into the timber I was thinking of, rather than the weight of the light box (which is two fifths of bugger all) The LEDs seem to run almost stone cold, but they're just pop-outs anyway and the transformer is attached to the holder. I've replaced almost all...

Hi everyone, and sorry in advance for a stupid question. Converting the lighting in my garage, from an ancient "high-efficiency" 25W bulb that couldn't light a doll's house to two rows of 5 x 2.5W high output LED clusters mounted into wooden lightboxes that I made up myself. They look quite good...

Hello all, I hope you don't mind me returning to the forums after many months with a question and search for advice. The title says it all. I'll try and be brief, but it's difficult. 1. There was a small chimney and "chinese hat" sticking through my roof, mortared into the old chimney stack. A...

Guys, I've had continual trouble with a Grohe concealed flush unit. After some advice from this forum, I took it out, gave it a clean up and refitted, which worked for a few months. The problem then was the flush v/v not sitting down properly. Now, it's passing again, and nothing I do...

Sorry guys, I can't seem to get this thing out. When I lift it, it won't rotate at all in either direction. I am doing something wrong? I can access the valves through a hole roughly 6" x 4" under the air button panel. Anyone know if the float value etc be removed through this, or am I...

Guys - thanks for the hints. It is new, but I didn't fit it, and I'm having trouble getting hold of the fitter, so looking at sorting it myself. If it's a bayonet fitting, I will try and get it out tomorrow and check the valve. Hopefully I'll find something wrong with it. If it's a bayonet...

Having problems with my newly-fitted concealed Grohe flush. After flushing, water continues to pour into the bowl. On checking, there is a cylindrical plastic tube which, if I press it quite lightly, sits down another couple of millimetres and stops the passing water. Its an air flush, so if I...