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You say the welder requires 15 amp supply, is this what the welder draws or this the fuse rating required. Check the rating plates on both the compressor and welder if either current rating is over 20/3 (6.77)amps then the MCB may well trip. If the mcb is a type "B" then you might...

Hi All, I'm replacing the concrete slab floor in my downstairs cloakroom as its foundation is settling causing the slab to drop; about 40mm so far and still moving. I've removed the old slab, replaced its foundation with well compacted rubble and I'm almost ready to pour the new slab. The...

Hi All, Anyone know if it is possible to get a 40mm plastic waste pipe fitting that is essentially a cross tee but with the side entries at right angles to each other. This type of fitting could be fitted tight in room corner or in my case allow two sink wastes to connect at 90 degs to each...

I'm in the middle of modifying my ground floor toilet, moving the toilet pan and hand basin positions. The toilet pan is not a problem as it goes back into the position it was about 4 years ago, the hand basin is where I've got an issue. There is a 110mm horizontal soil pipe laid in the floor...

Hi Gents, Thanks for the advice. I managed to get the tiles back in place, although I did cheat a bit; gutter man came round and did the first row for me :oops: Thanks again.

Just a thought, What's the chances of the tiles originally being laid slightly over pulled and now, due to me having removed a large area, what's left has settled in to a more normal position, thus resulting in the gap I'm now getting? If the tiles were originally laid in much hotter...

Hi Alistair, I did as you suggest on my first attempt and ended up with about 6 or 7 courses with insufficient side lap and I have been working right to left, again as you suggest. Perhaps the whole roof is sagging down cos of my fat ar*e gut having sat on it? :lol: :lol: I think if I...

From the LHS of the roof in the photo, I've pushed the 2nd course of tiles up and pulled all but the first tile, in the gutter course, from left to right towards the tower scaffold; and from the RHS of the roof I've pulled all but the first 6 tiles, in the same course, from right to left...

datarebal thanks for the reply. Yes, by overlap I mean side lap. So far I've only re-refixed the first/gutter course batten, which is now nice and straight, and with the tiles laid pulled, as you suggested, the side lap is still too short. I've also brushed the moss of the side lap...

Hi All, I've just relaid some Marley Malvern(?) pan tiles on my house roof after replacing some damaged underlay felt. The original area of work was 7 to 8 rows back from the gutter line and 13 or 14 tiles wide. When I refitted the tiles I ended with the tile overlap not being...

It's the inner leaf of a cavity wall. I wondered about raking the cracked mortar out, just shy of going right through, and then pushing in new mortar.Then rake out the cracks in the blocks to about 12mm wide and filling those with new mortar? Kind of rebuild the wall area without actually...

Hi Gents, As much as I like a good debate or even a slanging match, this thread seems to be getting away from the original topic. I wonder if Joe 90 is on a wind-up. I'm a sparks and one of the electrical forums I go on to, has all but collapsed due to wind-up merchants. Anyway back to...

err doesn't the inner leaf regardless of what it's made of, hold up the roof and internal floors???

Hi chri5 There were/are broken tiles and some had fallen off. All the cracks are hair line. Although I used a hammer and bolster to remove most of the tiles, many were/are loose to start with. I placed the bolter at the plaster tile boundary and struch downward almost parallel with the...

I've just removed the tiles from a section of bathroom wall and noticed the plaster behind them is cracked along all the mortar lines and through the centre of the supporting Thermolite blocks behind. When I removed a large area of loose plaster/sand&cement render I could see the cracks...

fm'st, Thanks for the input, I'll redo the post when I get time. Never know quite how much info to provide, some like a lot and all up front while others don't Regards, duffsparky.

fm'st, nah, still don't get it :( . Please explain what's wrong. Kind regards