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Down pipe is clear Gutters are clean I am sure of both. The rest has question marks. No idea when the plastic replaced the iron. But looks like this has been a problem for a while given the walls

Hi Firstly, gutters are 3 storeys up, I don't ha e a ladder, nor head for heights to fix this myself. Water comes off a large gable end, rushes down, hits the gutter, then the water splashes over the edge of the gutter. The gutter is half round plastic. (note this only happens on one side of...

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Thank you. Will the hot water cylinder still be filled by the boiler system, if the hot water side is turned off? Thanks

Thanks. I'm not really concerned about what is tripping the circuit. I'm going to leave that to professional to figure out. What I would like to do when said pro is here, is "switch off" the Hot Water Cylinder. So that it it is no longer operational as we do not use the hot water from it...

Hi All We've moved into a "new" old house. We have the following - Vaillant Ecotec Plus 637 boiler - very old copper hot water cylinder in basement - header tank in loft. Something is tripping the circuit that the Boiler and Cylinder are on. We do not need hot water from the Cylinder. As...

So if I put new circuits in a currently occupied and old house Do the sockets need to be the "new" Building Regs height?

Thanks very much. We'll be getting private building control, so hopefully more sensible. But just in the planning stages at the moment, so trying to understand where we ca save costs/limit damage to the current structure

Hi I've got a Victorian house with tall skirting boards. The sockets are in the skirting board. I want to limit disruption to the skirting and the wall. If I'm having a partial rewire / do other internal works requiring Regs (no extensions, just removal of internal walls and inserting...

Hi Just wondered if anyone had used this before? https://www.simplestrip.co.uk/ It will be used to remove woodchip wallpaper. I know of the Zinsser DIF stuff but I quite like the idea of the SimpleStrip sheets, and being able to pull th scored wallpaper off in one big sheet - as we're doing...

All sensible, thanks guys. Guessing a valve on the shower waste would likely create potebeissues, if restricting directional flow?

Hi We are going to have to put in a Saniflo. It's going into a new ensuite. I'd rather not have the sink and shower running into the Saniflo, as hair is an added item to potentially clog them. I'd like to have a separate waste for the shower. But I would only like one pipe showing on the...

Haha! How you don't want it to end up. Unfortunately, not a bedroom. Which I why I'd considered Open Web Metal joists but they seem to start at 200mm

Thanks, that's interesting. The rooms above are a bathroom and also a "plant" room (boiler and invented cylinder). Might having such tightly fitted joists make it very difficult to plumb?

Thanks. Its just as useful knowing what you are better off not doing, than going down a rabbit hole and spending a fortune

Thanks. I had hoped there was some "super slim" solution, closer to 100mm. But, looks like I'm dreaming :)

Hi, this is ground floor ceiling and floor for the room above. Hopefully thays clear, there is a floor above. Thanks

Thanks. Approx 3.5 span, so I think (subject calcs) 75 x 147mm is the best I can get depth wise. That sound about right?

Hi I am aware that joist depth depends on span, as well as, thickness of joist. I have a low ceiling that I'd like to increase the height of. Before going to a structural engineer, I'd appreciate a rough idea of what I can achieve, by removing it all, moving the joists up, and replace the...

Thanks guys, appreciated