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HD as in "hard disk"? Yes, probably. I have some that are approx 10p coin sized, probably similar alloy, and they are more than sufficient.

Free - tap the wall and listen to find the more solid bits. Cheap - use a strong magnet to find where the screws or nails are. Both are cheaper and more effective than any stud finder device.

Possibly not a lot. Do feel free to post questions here when you have any doubt at all.

That's fairly obvious because there is a pause when it wraps around from 8 to 1.

I once wasted a lot of time when I didn't spot that it was showing 12345678 at one end and 87654321 at the other.

I believe the options come down to "fully legal" and "fully illegal"; there isn't much middle ground. Do you believe that you know what you're doing? Do you for example work in a related field?

If this thread were a human, they would have been legally drinking in pubs for 3 years now.

Getting the fall along the red line would not be a problem. The challenge is that that would require a lot of digging, and getting permission. Getting the fall to connect to one of the existing drains would depend on how deep they are, which is unknown.

For the proposed red line, very roughly 5m maybe?

I counted ten courses of brick, then the concrete benching. Hmm, that's not much more than a metre; it looked deeper than that.

Very rough sketch. House wall in black. Existing deep sewer runs right to left. Existing pipes from house in blue; proposed new pipe in red. Ground is slightly lower to the left. Connecting to an existing pipe would require a sharp left turn (probably tighter than the diagram suggests). I don't...

Thanks all, that's very useful. There is a slight slope over the yard and the new location is somewhat lower than the old one, so connecting to existing pipes is difficult because of gradients. I've just googled "backdrop". Are "internal backdrops" often used? That might possibly be a solution...

I'm not aware of asbestos having been used on domestic pipes. Old stuff is felt, new is plastic.

That appears to be a paper label on an electrical cable, with a plaster wall behind. Which part are you asking about? As for under your kitchen floor - how would we know?

Dear Experts, Today I've visited someone who is considering moving their downstairs toilet. They have a concrete-surfaced back yard with a deep manhole, with a shared sewer at the bottom serving the row of houses. There are several pipes entering the manhole, two at the bottom with proper...

Good undercoats, including water-based, are properly opaque; you don’t need to worry much about the change in colour.

Don’t try to shave the bitumen, in my experience it can be quite brittle. Do you have a doormat? If I were you, I’d consider cutting the carpet back from the door with an aluminium trim edge, and fitting a large coir doormat directly onto the bitumen.

He’s absolutely normal for this job. There are only about six competent tradesmen in the UK, and they all post on this forum. That’s why we “Do It Ourselves”.

Yes they are probably weeds. (Do you have the “plant net” app on your phone?) No need to spray them, just pull them up. Reserve the glyphosate for perennial weeds like brambles.

Ancient thread! (Has something been removed?)