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Hi folks, A have a run of seven wooden steps leading down from a balcony (house is on a hill). Several of the treads have started to deteriorate and need to be replaced. I might do all seven of them while I'm at it. The stringers look fine. The construction is perhaps a bit unusual...

Hi folks, We have a mature cherry tree in our (fairly small) garden. Long story short, over the years more and more of the ground around the tree has been covered up - one side is a tarmacced alley, one side is under a car port which keeps the ground pretty dry. The last two years the tree...

Thanks all. Went for the suggsetion by pinenot and burnerman in the end - got it pretty much exactly plumb by cutting along the length of the frame. It was out by 5cm so packing it out wasn't really going to work. Fortunately both sides were exactly equally out-of-plumb so the offcut from...

Thanks for the replies. The question I'm asking really is, perhaps from someone who has done a few of these, about how much out of plumb is OK? I don't want to fit the frame wonky, fit the door and then find out it's no good. Neither do I want to spend ages cutting the frame to be...

Hi folks, We have an old brick shed in the garden which we've recently re-reroofed and refitted. Tomorrow's job is to fit a new door and frame. Currently there is a hole in the bricks, no wooden parts left as they were all rotten. The hole is not plumb at the sides, by about 2cm. (The...

Hi folks, I need to replace a corner shower enclosure which is old and tired. I have removed all screws, doors and panels. What's left is two U-shaped brackets on the walls, each 6ft high, stuck to the walls with nothing but silicone sealant. They will not budge. I cannot get a blade...

Done it! Problem was not as I initially thought: it was leaking between the metal nut and the nylon washer. Disassembled, added a sausage of putty between the nut and washer and now it's dry as a bone. Thinking about it, I'm not sure how that ever would have been expected not to leak. I...

Thanks for replies. Forgot to say that I did use PTFE tape on the thread, and that's not where the leak is. Edited my post above for clarity. So that leaves silicone sealant on the washer. I'll give that a try, thanks.

Hi folks, Trying to replace a leaky waste in a belfast sink. I have the right waste (1.5" slotted). Fitted as follows: Sausage of plumber's mait around the plughole. PTFE tape around thread where nut will be. Drop the waste in. Sausage of plumber's mait onto top of nylon washer...

Thanks very much everyone!

I must admit I didn't count the sockets on either side of the JB - that was just for illustration. There are (from memory) 17 (single or double) sockets on the ring (4 rooms plus landings) and I don't know whereabouts in the ring that JB is. It could easily be at/near one end of it.

They'd have needed a third length of cable (between the two "spur" sockets) to do that. The layout is such that that really wouldn't have been hard for them to do... my diagram doesn't show it, but the cable for one of the sockets runs right past the other one.

Thanks John, nice answer. The JB is big (didn't notice a rating on it but definitely not a lighting one) and the cables fit without trouble. The was no sleeving on the earths (there is now - not sure if I was allowed to change that but too late now). It's also easily accessible. Seems...

Hi all, Stumbled across an unusual piece of wiring in my house yesterday. The wiring which feeds the bedroom sockets is a normal ring for the most part - goes from CU to socket to socket to socket ... and back to the CU. However two sockets in one room are fed from a pair or spurs from a...