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I am constructing a kitchen extension and building a new utility room and together they will form an "L" shape around the existing kitchen. The roof (which will be pitched) will be at different heights for the kitchen and utility structures so where the roofs meet, there will be a change in...

CDBE - is the aco strictly necessary as it is a small wall (I think maybe 2.5m in length) and at the depth of the footings it is pure sand so if I made provision, any water that did get down to the bottom would I think drain away. Woody - I'm not a builder but to my way of thinking, isn't it...

No, it's a very small garden so I don't want to lose any more of it. The area in question will be a utility room and there used to be a "potting shed" in that location that had the same thing (soil (flower bed) against the wall but without any protection). Adjacent to the utility room there will...

I am in the process of constructing an extension and would like some advice please on how to waterproof part of the external wall which will be below the level of the adjacent garden. To clarify, the garden slopes upwards away from the house and I have dug out to allow for footings etc. and am...

Not an electrical problem as such but more a request for advice on a potential career! I am a qualified electrical engineer (so not an electrician) but I am very practical and undertake my own electrical work (house re-wire, panel change etc - with professional sign-off by others where required)...

The reason for two connections is that I would like to retain the sink on the right hand side of the toilet whereas the utility room will be on the left hand side so to me it seemed to make sense to have two separate connections. With regards to the existing connection, it's difficult to see...

Thanks everyone for the replies so far - so, presumably then I could just use two 50mm strap on boss connectors below floor level - correct?

Apologies, I wasn't clear in my original post, the pipe on the right serves the existing sink and the new waste (if I am allowed to do it this way) would enter from the left. From the responses I have received, it seems that from a building control perspective this method (waste pipes entering...

I am in the process of building a new utility room and am looking to minimise the drainage requirements for a dishwasher, sink and washing machine. The utility room will be adjacent to an existing outside toilet (to be retained) and I noticed today that the sink next to this toilet drains...

It's called a process of elimination and is also a learning process. With the assistance of this forum I managed to rectify the problem and have learnt what I did wrong so in future I will not repeat this mistake!

It's not if you can return the unused component.

What does that mean?

So, for all you non-believers, the electrical works were successfully signed off today - if I say I am going to do something then I do it!

As I said - will be!! Wouldn't have said that if it wasn't true.

Will be!

Thanks for that - you were correct - neutral was in the wrong bar!

I have changed out an old fuse box for a split consumer unit (will be notified to local authority). On one side I have sockets, cooker etc. and on the other, lighting, boiler etc. The left hand side (RCD1) works fine and on the right (RCD2), there are no problems if just the lighting circuit is...

But how do I measure to confirm which size they are?

This is a daft question I know but I have a tap (European) with connectors and I am struggling to work out what size the connectors are. Ideally I want to convert so that that I can connect to my 15mm isolator valves the ends of which are too large for the tap connectors. The internal diameter...

It will be a Baxi.