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Building Control are useless and I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by 'plan registry'. I'm going to arrange for a CCTV inspection - which will involve breaking the clay drain, I imagine. Here's to £300 to find out something I don't want to know ...

Hi, 1 Running it the length of the house under the floor will be tricky... 2 Getting it around the front of the house will require some serious digging. So ... I'm praying you're right and it isn't a soakaway... Just a thought ... wonder if you could go with a CCTV camera up from the...

Hi Tony, Thanks for helping. In fact you've been here ... and to my previous address! Do you remember? De Beauvoir. We've moved the kitchen to the front of the house and after considering all the problems, everyone failed to overlook the fact that the outside drain (running in a trench...

Gawd ... this gets worse. To get a CCTV camera down there, they have to dig out the gulley.

Plan registry? Does that mean planning and registry? I checked with Thames Water drawings but they just show public sewer.

Hi, Live in a property built in 1850 which is semi detached. At the front, there is a trench in front of the lower ground window and at one end of this there is a grate (serving both my neighbour and my property) as a rainwater drainoff. Is there any easy way of telling whether this is a...

The current covering is an iron grate - think I will knacker it if I try and cut throught it. Guess I could just replace the grate with something plastic that I could cut through - but was thinking that it would be better to give it more depth in order to avoid mess splashing out of the drain.

We are moving the kitchen from the back of our house to the front. There is a storm drain right outside the front window where the exit pipes for the kitchen sink/dishwasher and washing machine will be (two in total). We have been advised by Building Control that we are fine to use the...

No one actually using LEDs under cabinets, then? I am really at the cutting edge?!

No one actually using LEDs under cabinets, then? I am really at the cutting edge?!

Thanks but I don't really have possibility for cornice of any kind.

I'm looking for some under kitchen cabinet lights. Is anyone using anything in LED or CFL that gives a warm enough light that is bright enough to provide suitable light for worktops? Don't want them floodlit - just enough to see what I'm chopping (clearly!) As an aside, on looks ... I...

Anyone any recommendations? Don't mind paying a decent amount (unglazed/glazed) - esp for a door with M/T rather than dowelled. But then again, I'm not really sure what I should pay for something like this? And if they did quality internal doors, that would be a bonus!

Just finished a load of research on this. So I'll do my best. We are doing a 4m opening with either 4/5 doors. Materials - Aluminium, Wood, PVC Aluminium - choice of colours, thinner edge profiles, cheaper than wood Wood - Oak, Iroko, Meranti, 'Other' Width - SOme systems allow up to 1m...

Haha - rereading my own posts thinking 'That chap had a similar problemt to mine ...' ANyway, well, yes, that's the one BAS - but I still don't think it was quite clear enough that these huge neoprene seals sit proud of the ceiling. They're ugly as hell. Live and learn.

Nice idea. Thanks. I'll be stocking up on cheap hotdogs and Swedish cheese on Monday so I'll check my options. A slightly less elegant solution might be to pack out the top above the worktop - e.g. with two bits of plasterboard. That would hide the gap (into which I could just insert a...

Many thanks. Will explore these and post back what I did.

I had planned on using an IKEA Numerar worktop (solid wood) in our utility room. It's a short run of 1200mm. Now the reality is here, I find I need a depth of around 660mm. But the Numerar worktop is only 620mm deep. Gah! I have two choices, I think: 1) Source a deeper worktop. 2)...

Have just removed some of the ceiling from a single storey extension (am replacing the ceiling) and expected to see no insulation between rafters ... In fact, there is 100mm thickness or so of yellow (possibly that nasty glass fibre stuff) insulation. I'm not sure whether it's a warm room...

HI Zambezi, Thanks. Why does the DIYNOT guide not mention a switched fused for the cooker?