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There's a hole in my bucket... the trouble being that all our buckets get used for gardening and seem to develop holes, even the one I have under the drain valve which is leaking. Actually that's not true, it's not the drain valve, it's the quarter turn valve ahead of the drain valve. Having...

We had attic tanks in our house thirty one years. Why should there be a problem? The attic pipework should be well lagged, if not, make it so. Foam, plus felt for corners and fittings, all well tied on with string. Put polystyrene slab around the tanks, leave no gaps. As has been said, don't...

Today I bought an EV from a local plumbers' merchants. Doubtless the instructions in the original German were excellent, but the translation is somewhat opaque. I have tried to look up the procedure for adjusting the pressure and how to determine whether it needs adjusting, but no joy. The EV...

Aha. Another thing I didn't know I didn't know. Not that we ever drink the water from the hot tap. Anyway, like this? https://www.advancedwater.co.uk/prod-140-147-0021.html So, in addition to shutting off the water, should I let the pressure out of the EV first?

Oh. Here it is

Replacement kitchen mixer to install. Mains fed. There's a small undersink water heater. So, can I just shut off the water and disconnect the pipes to the tap as usual? The heater has a red canister hanging off it - pressure vessel I presume - with a gauge showing 5 bar. Atop the heater...

After a near disaster when my auto stripper cut through the wire, it worked. I discarded 4 & 6. Mind you, this did not initially go well. As soon as I discarded any wire, the phone would not dial out properly. Then I noticed a button underneath - Tone/Pulse. Wossat, thought I. Amateurs, eh? V8

Thankyou. No, I just have to replace four feet of cable where it drops down from the ceiling. I will cut the 6-core cable at the ceiling and put in a 20/4 GPO junction box and connect to the 4-core. Then the 4-core will connect to the BT extension box. The 4-core is an old GPO phone cable, I do...

BT socket box for phone extension. What I think of as an RJ11. Network cable to the box trailing down the (stone) wall. Some stonework being done a few weeks ago, so I took the opportunity of burying another cable in the pointing. Couldn't bury the original cable as it's too short to follow the...

Repeat the process with the other leg of the frame, using a non-styrene with a longer open period. This time, I don't warm the tube by keeping in it my pocket for an hour, that may have contributed to a quicker set. Perhaps as a result, blimey it's hard to expel! Feel like I need a Charles...

Actually it was a lump hammer....... With my reading glasses on - never used to need these confounded things - I read the small print on the tube. The stuff I had previously was 'styrene-free' and at the temperature I was working had an open time of 12 minutes. The stuff I used here is Styrene...

Just had a minor disaster. What did I do wrong...... Three fixings into a Cotswold stone wall, very old wrought iron nails plus/minus 3/8" square section and 4-5" into the wall. Fixings for an old hardwood door frame 4" square. Drilled the holes oversize finishing with a 3/4" drill, dusted out...

Ahhh, and the head? I could bring the whole frame forward an inch, the sill would protrude 4" but never mind. I can attach it to the frame with stainless brackets and screws. Then, thinking about it, I could put Compriband between the frame sides and the battens. And between the frame side and...

Outhousd, clad in 7" feather edge. Built 25 years ago. The windows were set back flush with the 1" batten, then the feather edge lapped onto the window side and nailed to the batten, the open ends sealed onto the window frame with a non-setting paintable mastic. Which is still sticky in places...

Took some 7" feather edge off an outhouse. Been there 25 years. The windows had rotted at the cladding/frame junction. The feather edge I took off has split so I can't reuse it, but it was lovely and flat. My local Challenge Fencing yard had some 5", old, flat, however I need 7" to match...

Thankyou. Yes, Blue label. I did think to interleave them with a membrane, probably Proctor Roofshield, that would brings any water to the surface but doesn't create a behind air space like the Cedar Breather. I'll give Marley a call. Didn't realise they supplied, I got mine through SIG. I see...

I'm laying a roof of cedar shingles on OSP. This American underlay http://www.benjaminobdyke.com/products/cedar-breather-ventilated-underlayment called Cedar Breather, creates an airspace under the shingles so they can dry both sides, and avoid cupping. Cedar shingles are big business in the...

30mA RCD tripped out twice now, about ten days apart. One RCD runs everything. So I can start chasing it, I believe I need an RCD tester, and an earth leakage clamp meter. Any recommendations please? Don't want to buy some cheapos that are too inaccurate to do any good. They also need to come...

Ahhh, Thorn. I see they offer a 45W that gives 4500 lm vs 3500 lm from my Eterna 50W, http://www.thornlighting.co.uk/en-gb/products/outdoor-lighting/area-floodlighting/LED_Fit/led-fit/96628332 and it's just above a climbing rose so that seems appropriate. I'll see if it will fit the space...

Thankyou. It's in a metal casing. Controlled by two separate PIRs. Good question about battery radios. No, they are all mains FM. Don't have a battery radio. I plugged it in in the garage to check the light output, it caused interference. So I tried it in two rooms in the house where there...