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Afternoon all, I was up in my attic the other day while it was bright and sunny outside and noticed a lot of light coming down from the side of the chimney breast where the house is joined to next door (1940's terrace). On closer inspection there appears to be a gap of around half a centimetre...

Cheers for the info guys. Everything seems to have gone quiet for now (even the cat has stopped going crazy at the floor) but I doubt it will stay this way. Yep we poisoned a whole load in the summer and the smell really was not nice. I like the idea of baiting the sewers though surely they...

Just to update: We had a couple of guys come and complete drain CCTV. They couldn't find any problems and said the smell was more general sort of cellar damp/moist smell than sewage. He thought it was possibly the rats back again. A day later I have confirmed this by the scratching under the...

Thanks guys, appreciated. When I mentioned the rat problem could be linked to the sewers a couple of months ago he wasnt particularly interested. Not that i blame him as we'd had a problem before he started the work. Ill crack on with getting some cctv drainage sorted.

Afternoon all, Last year we had an extension built on the rear of our house (1940's terrace). The new walls crossed existing (clay?) sewer pipe in two places. Build over permission was given by Thames Water, everything was checked by Building Control and signed off. There is a manhole under...

Hi, I currently have two interlinked Kidde smoke alarms (one optical and one ionisation). I think 123/9HI and 223/9HI but they look like this image below anyway. The optical one has developed a fault and I need to replace it. Is there a current model that I can do a straight out removal and...

Well ive had another look at this tonight and realised the repair is not going to be as easy as id thought. I was looking at the mounting for the remaining side and noticed that the part that hooks onto the spring (sort of crescent shaped bracket) is actually off-set from the wall bracket at...

Thanks for the advice guys - massively appreciated. Ok so i have to admit that ive had to look these terms up online! As suggested I don't think a pop rivet would do the job. It needs to be able to swivel but also is sprung and there is quite alot of force on it. I think a clevis pin will get...

Thanks for your reply. They're similar but don't have the sort of crescent/half moon shape at the top. This is where the spring hooks on but on the ones in the link don't look like they have anywhre to hook it on. The side arm is actually undamaged but because the rivet also goes through...

Morning all! One of the mounting brackets for the spring loaded mechanism snapped on my loft ladder when i was coming down the steps last week. Now im not overly heavy but it really went for it! The rivet which goes through the mounting bracket and connects to the spring loaded arm (?) has...