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I'm building a garden room at the end of the garden, which is 43 metres away from the house. The wifi signal is not strong enough there and I'm not a fan of wifi anyway (unless it's for mobile devices), so I'm going to use an ethernet cable. I've laid an outdoor use 50m long Cat6 copper UTP...

My builders will be starting the construction of a garden room soon, which will feature a toilet. I will be the primary user of it, but occasionally others (friends) may use it, so there is no guarantee the wrong kind of things won't go down the loo. I need a pumping station to take the waste...

They have trickle vents. They don't have a two position catch, whatever position you leave it at it stays that way.

I have a lodger in my converted loft. The loft has roof windows (roofLITE, not sure which model but it may be Nito) in the pitched roof, and standard PVC windows at the dormer (rear) side. The lodger is very keen on keeping the roof windows open. He used to leave them open and go to work for...

I've found a (single) macerator pumping station for £850. It has a 2" outlet. With that I wouldn't have to worry about the 1% or 2.5% sloping and I could use 50mm piping. I'm wondering if I could use MDPE with that, and what type / colour for below ground and grey / black water?

The garden is 43 metre long. A 1% fall would be 430mm and I want the pipe to be a certain minimum depth where it goes in the ground to prevent damage. I don't know how deep my sewer is, but I reckon it would have to be at least ~750mm deep for this to work. Are sewers normally that deep? A...

From what I've read that's not needed at all when macerators are used. Their outlets are either 32mm or 40mm anyway. So having a larger-bore pipe between the tank and the sewer would offer no advantage?

This is yet to be decided, but most likely buried.

I'm planning on building a garden office in place of the current shed. It will be at the back of the garden, ~ 40 metres from the house, and have a toilet, electric shower and washbasin. From what I've gathered, for water supply I can use 25mm blue MDPE and this needs to be buried underground...

I'm planning on building a garden office and I'd like to have a door chime at the front door of the house linked to it. The garden office is going to be some 50 metres away from the front door, and there would be 3 thick walls on the way (house front wall + house rear wall + garden office front...

I've put yellow on 1 and it's working ok now.

Cheers. As for safety, is it sufficient to just isolate electric supply to the boiler to carry out the work? I've done that and it seems to be working in the opposite direction. When it's set to a low temp, the fire icon is off but the heating comes on. When I set it to a high temp, the fire...

My old thermostat is a mechanical one and looks like this: I'm replacing it with a digital one, here is the wiring diagram on it: From what I reckon, the old one has: 1 = permanent live 3 = switched live 4 = neutral Am I correct in thinking that on the new one it's: 1 = permanent live 2 =...

The inspector has confirmed what JohnD said: I need intumescent strips with these narrow battens.

Cheers. I've googled the product in question and found a CERTIFIRE document which specifies the door stop's dimensions (only 14.5mm wide) and says it's fire approved. I'll send him the link and hope this is convincing enough.

My loft conversion is finished and I've just had the final building control inspection. A few days ago a different team of builders (not the loft guys) started doing some other work, which involves dividing the large through lounge into two smaller rooms, each with its own door. The partition...

I've got a copy of their insurance. I saw some of their previous works; none of them finished at the time. One of their clients I spoke to was happy, but it was them who pointed me to him.

Your sarcasm is not really helpful. I employed them because cost was important to me. And there is nothing wrong with foreign labour. The Romanians did a great job, and British doesn't guarantee great quality either. I'm very disappointed with the loft boys, but you can't know what it's going...

For a little background: I bought the house in February last year. Since then I've had quite a bit of work done. For most of it (bathroom refit, kitchen refit, a new cloakroom, laminate flooring, guttering, etc.) I used a Romanian company whose services I was very happy with. Then I decided to...

Cheers. I'll go ahead then. Yes the specs say it's meant for sealing gaps between boards, but the builders had given me second thoughts. And yes, they are using scrim tape.