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The council also inspected and tested my garage installation last year so I know the deal. You're right in that he really didn't look at much. Not sure I follow, if 32A is standard size for a cooker supply, seems sensible to me to up that when adding an extra appliance to the circuit. With...

Starting to think about my kitchen extension wiring. Before anyone asks, council are inspecting and testing so it's all legit! I've only got a single slot available on the consumer unit (the existing cooker circuit that's unsuitable). Could I connect two ovens and an induction hob to one...

Guess I'll go ahead and do it if no one has any objections!

Actually the difference in height is from the steels, all the joists are going from steels (sitting inside flanges) to wall plates on walls/ledger plate along the house. Outside skin is currently two courses higher than inside, to account for wall plate and cutting joists in half to have a...

I've put the steels in for the flat roof of my extension (to support roof lantern), and I've put them in higher than I originally planned to, so the inner skin is now 50mm too low for a standard 45mm wall plate. Could I just use a 95mm wall plate? Saves me cutting a lot of 40mm slithers! I...

Possibly, hence I came on here to ask! I'm not worried about the cavity insulation falling out, more about stuff over time working it's way in. If it got full of soil then damp could penetrate from the outside skin to the inner

Yea that's basically it. I just pulled this image from the internet but it's similar to what we're doing. I have seen people question movement between the two foundations so did wonder, but BCO didn't have a problem with it so that's what we went with. I think an extra lintel is going to be...

The pipe is 1.5m below ground with 1.5m of undisturbed earth above it so doesn't need any additional protection which I think is what he was getting at? I'm clearly not explaining this very well... my problem is that there won't be a bottom to the cavity as we lintel over the two foundations...

Thanks but that's not really my situation, the pipe is buried 1.5m below the ground! We're lintelling over the gap we left (and didn't dig out) for it, so the question is how to seal the bottom of the cavity over the gap. Wondering if it might be easiest to put another lintel in-between the two...

We've got to lintel over a sewer at foundation level, so one lintel under each skin. How do you close the bottom of the cavity? We haven't dug out around the sewer so it will be sitting just above the earth unless we do anything else. Surely over time it would just fill up with rubbish and...

Wondering about getting ibstock heathers instead of LBC's for our extension, 50s council estate in west London. I assumed the alternative bricks would be inferior, but I've read somewhere that someone thought that actually they're superior. Anyone got any thoughts? Are they going to be as good...

On our floor slab (5.4m x 4.2m) design we have 225mm of cellcore underneath our reinforced slab (A193 50mm from bottom). The slab is thicker at the edges and rests on the inside of the foundation...so this makes it a suspended slab, right? The design also has a layer of sand-blinded hardcore...

The thought just popped into my head as we'll be digging soon. There will be a perpendicular sewer through foundations, of which we have a good idea of location and depth from both ours and our neighbours manholes. We will have foundations 500mm either side of sewer and 150mm below as per the...

Technician came today, measured cold flow rate out the garden tap and said "yea something wrong with the boiler, I'll tell ATAG and we'll be in touch" Result I guess!

I had missed that in the manual so thanks for that. Unfortunately I don't think it answers anything though, I took the restrictor out and even with dhw turned off still only get 13lpm out with 20 available out the filling loop. Manual says pressure has virtually no effect on the throughput. I...

Ha fair enough, thanks. We're doing a rear extension this year and replacing water main at the same time wouldn't be a big deal, but is there any point?

If asked a car salesman for a car to transport my family of 5 about in and he sold me a 4 seater, think I'd be pretty miffed. Or if I said I want one that does 0-60 in under 5 seconds and he sold me one that did it in 7, I'd be equally as cheesed off. Do you let a structural engineer decide...

He has explicitly told me he didn't. What a thing to say. So you think a garage is perfectly at liberty to fill your oil sump up with chainsaw oil if you don't spec your own oil, or ask them what they're going to put in? People pay professionals for their professional advice and experience...

So what have I got wrong? You don't think he should have checked the suitability of the proposed design? You think it's up to the customer to spec their own systems?

Gas rated again tonight at full temp and got 35kw so seems like the boiler is going full pelt. But running through hot taps with dhw off gave us 12l/min, whereas running through cold taps gave us 18l/min. So seems like it is lack of pressure... Asked our installer if he measured the pressure...