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A friend wants 20W, 12V downlighters in his new bathroom....the same as he's seen in mine, which he likes. He already has them in 2 bedrooms. The plumber will be fitting them as part of the bathroom installation. I say I will get them with my account from the electrical wholesalers. The...

Not sure what a dwang is!! The bedrooms upstairs have just had new fitted carpets so not sure I want to rip them up. However the floorboards upstairs go under the wall from one room to the other so I assume the wall sits on the floor.

Ants can certainly burrow through mortar, they love fetching all mine out in the summer to gain access to my cavity. Once they make a pinhole they fetch enough out to get the army in

Well..I've just measured the position of the upstairs stud wall that is above the downstairs one. It's 12 inches across! So the upstairs one doesn't lie directly over the downstairs one.

Here's a plan view of the ground floor. I've omitted the doorways. The stud wall between kitchen and dining room is the one I want to go. All the internal brick walls extend to first floor only, above the first floor is all stud wall. I thought roof trusses were self supporting? My water tank...

I'm hoping to follow the trend and make a kitchen diner by removing a stud wall between the small rear kitchen and small rear dining room to make one long room across the entire back of the house. The house is a 70's square detached box with all upstairs rooms divided by stud walls. The loft is...

I'm trying to match some interior plywood to existing. I have measured it and it is heavily painted so I'll have to guess a bit...either 3/8in or 10mm are the round figures closest. Any ideas where i can get something to match? Is it a common size?

No I didn't pay the big bill. They put it on hold until the issue was resolved. The 14 quid was because the computer had estimated the bill based on what I'd used after the usage graph had normalised, then extrapolated that over the period of the peak. It's not an exact science, so it put me in...

The meter has been stable for the last couple of weeks, Ive taken regular readings and filled in a leakage allowance form. The guy from Severn Trent rang a few times to say he needed a couple more readings, he seemed quite pleasant. Had the adjustment notice today. The computer has...

There's certainly been a leak somewhere...though the only evidence has been the whizzing meter with nothing in use, and a 'hiss' from the drive somewhere near the rising main, detected by an inspector with his listening rod thingy and me receiving a bill that went from average £80/6months to...

no, it stopped after the contractors tested the service pipe :|

When I dug the pipe up, there were 2 philmac couplers back to back with a bit of blue pipe in between them. I rang the contractors to ask what they'd found and they said the joint was where they'd cut the alkathene, capped & tested it, and the leak was inbetween that joint and my house stoptap...

hardly in the spirit of the forum? I have replaced the pipe today from the stoptap in the house to the splice point half way down the drive where they cut it. There is no damage to the pipe I took out. So if the leak is in the other bit...well I am entitled to a free repair from the water...

Had a rather threatening letter from Severn-Trent today stating that, since the leak is under my property, they would effect a forced entry to fix it if I didn't get it fixed myself within 7 days. So today I dug up the drive and exposed the pipe right back to the wall duct where it goes into...

Haven't crossed that bridge yet.

I'm sure it will be in the small print, if it turns out the old black pipe or the joint is the culprit. At the end of the day, any free repair is offered as a good will gesture rather than part of the contract, so no point getting anything more than irritated by their work thusfar.

On the ones ive seen they have a level switch like a miniature version of the ones on washing machines...in other words a small tube operating a pressure switch by an air column. The tube might be blocked maybe or have an air leak? I've also had the little circuit board / timer go faulty...check...

I have found a nice piece of 25mm MDPE lying around at work, I am going to get some philmac joints today and then we'll see what I can do. Looks like that 25mm stopcock I bought last week can be useful after all! Photos to follow when I dig.

The inspector guy who came yesterday with his listening rod marked the flagstone under the toilet window with yellow chalk and said they would send in the groundwork contractor to dig down. I guess that is the guy who came today who pushed the paper through saying it was not fixable as it was...