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We had exactly the same issue with our pitch at 13 degrees. We went ahead and fitted the velux anyway. Its been water tight for nearly 2 years, ours house is perched on the coast line and we get alot of wind driven rain and it still doesn't leak. I spent an age fitting them carefully, and tiled...

Hi. I'm currently building a wooden outbuilding approx 6m x 6m, the front and rear walls are 4 x 2, the side walls are 6 x 2 all at 400mm centres. It will be having pressed steel roof sheets with 50mm insulation fixed underneath. The roof is a simple lean to style. Will 9 x 3 (the largest...

Thanks for info. Yes thay are roadforms, seems like a really good idea. Much easier than trying to stake in wooden shuttering. Do you think its worthwhile to connect the two pads. You mention dowels, is this simpley pieces of rebar fixed into one pad and sticking out into the area to be next...

Hi, Next week i'll be laying a 7m x 7m concrete pad 6" thick for the base of a wooden garage/workshop i'll be buiding. The area was excavated last Oct, 8" of type1 laid and wacked every so often along with being weathered in. I'm thinking of laying them as 2 seperate pads as 7x7 seems to...

Thanks. I'm struggling with the whole full load or diversity thing. Maybe xmas day it would get near full load, but do i start knocking around a newly renovated house to put an extra 6mm cable in, for that very rare occasion. But then again i don't want to be eating my xmas pudding on the...

Hi, We've just purchased a built under double oven (max 4800w) and a electric ceramic hob (max 6500w). The original freestanding electric cooker and hob has been running using the usual 6mm cooker cable, but surely this can't be right. With the new max being a possible 11300w then would I need...

thanks Woody, thats what i needed to hear!

Hi, Sorry for the following daft question. Which order to you do the soffit and fascia in? Do you put the starter strip along the back of the old soffit, fit the fascia and then flex/bend the new soffit pieces in or do you fit the starter strip, then the soffit pieces and then the new fascia...

Lifted inspection covers on the drains and we've got water running down them, with nothing on in the house. So i presume the main's has sprung a leak and found its way to the drains. Looks like my weekend is planned out, now where did i put my kango.....

Hi. Hope some one can help as this is driving me bonkers! Our domestic hot and cold water pipes make a faint noise like a fridge humming. If you hold your hand on the pipe especially the cold it feels like water is running through the pipe. The water meter does not move and there is no leak...

Thanks everyone for your advice. The 16mm cable advise was only given because the Mira handbook says the terminal could take upto 16mm. Electrics are to be checked/tested by building control on completion of our new extension. I spoke to building control about the cable size but they were...

Hi. I've just bought a Mira Sport 10.8kw shower. The house has a RCD protected consumer unit. I've fitted 10mm cable, about 10 metres in total length, with 2.5 metres chased in a wall. 1. Is this cable size adequate a friend keeps saying I should have put 16mm in? 2. 10800watts divide by...

Turned the flow valve to each cistern a little bit and hey presto no clunk. Takes a little longer for the cistern to fill up but no annoying noise! Thanks

Hi, Having replaced both our bathrooms we now get an annoying clunk/bang noise from the pipework every time the cisterns on the toilets fill up, just at the moment the float stop rising and stops the incoming water. It didin't happen before with the old toilets. We fitted cheap B&Q bath...

Thanks, i'll have a read about balancing and see what happens. If we were thinking of a new boiler at some point what would you recommend? I don't want a combi, as this set up has been so trouble free.

Hi. Nothing major this but more of an anoyance! We live in a detached 6 bedroom house which has 17 radiators, 10 upstairs and 7 downstairs. We have a gravity fed system, tank in airing cupboard, boiler in the utility. Its a Baxi boiler, behind the lower cover there's a plate that says wm...

Thanks guys! I didn't even think of taking the live to the light first, amatuer!!! Breezer Its is an MCB. Theres two fitted side by side but both 32 amp which would surely leave my lights on fire before the breaker worked! (its a brand new house) I do use a welder sometimes so was going to...

Hi. I'll try and describe as best as possible. In our garage we need 4 lights to be operated each on there own. I've purchased two 2 gang switches which i'll use as one ways ie just using the common and L1 on each switch. I've got the cable from each light to the appropriate switch...

sorry Rob didn't read your reply properly. The only problem with having the boiler turned down is it switches of sometimes before the room thermostat has told it to!?

yes, the room thermostat is next to the front door (doesn't seem like the best place!). Am I best to keep the boiler turned up, so the room thermostat is always in control?