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Why would it be any more a bodge job compared with joining the two ends with a solvent-fixed coupling that fitted round the two ends rather than inside them? Replacing the pipe sounds simple but it is joined with a solvent-fixed coupling to a pipe that disappears behind the sink cabinet. To...

A kitchen sink 40mm waste pipe has cracked close to the point at which is disappears behind the cabinet rear wall. I have repaired this by cutting the pipe and joining the two ends with a compression fit coupler, However, the end that disappears behind the cabinet is close to a junction and will...

The existing boiler is a Worcester 28 CDI RSF. The house has 6 radiators downstairs and 7 upstairs, and the extension would add 3 to this. For Dan Robinson: I recognized that my original post was relatively long but I really didn't think that it was hard to read. I try to avoid inserting...

I am having a single-room extension built over my garage and need to decide on a heating system. Answers to similar queries in this forum all seem to advise extending the Gas Central Heating to provide radiators in the new room. British Gas advise that, because the existing boiler is over 13...

The gutters on my house are constantly being blocked by moss and seeds from nearby tall sycamore trees. I am getting past the point of getting up a ladder to clear them out and am looking for something I can use from ground level. A pressure washer lance would probably work but splashes would...

The Henderson electric roller door fitted to my garage has a "safe-stop" device to stop the door moving if something is in the way. This device has a small A23 battery which seems to last up to only about a couple of months and sometimes less. Is this a reasonable life? I understand that...

My garage flat roof is surrounded by a low parapet with flat coping stones on top. A few years ago when the roof was replaced, the roofer sealed the coping stones, which were old and porous, with what looked like very thick, sticky grey paint with coarse fibres in it. This coating is starting to...

There seems to be a substantial amount of opinion on the various DIY web sites that the lights would be notifiable if they were NOT, repeat NOT, an "extra-low voltage lighting system which is not a pre-assembled lighting set bearing the CE marking referred to in regulation 9 of the Electrical...

I am not sure if this is the right forum but here's my query. I want to install some garden lights but, for various reasons cannot use a mains source of power so am considering 12v lamps powered by a 12v 12Ah sealed, rechargeble lead-acid battery (eg a Yuasa NP12-12). I thought that a solar...

The hollow internal doors in my house are fitted with round handles that I wish to replace with lever handles. The existing handles have roses that fit over holes that are very close to 53mm diameter - why such large holes were necessary, I have no idea. This means that lever door handles, which...

Electical apparatus such as Christmas lights, garden strimmer etc to save having to use a very long extension lead. Oh, and I should have mentioned that the cupboard also houses the gas meter but is fitted with a ventillation grill.

My eletricity meter and JB is in a cupboard outside the front door. Is it legal to wire in a power socket from the JB so that I can plug in elctrical apparatus?