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If you treated it as a "repair" you could just smash out the entire maintenance liability of an installation and replace it with modern 110mm uPVC drainage pipe and fittings, with one reliable connection to the main drain, it all looks fairly shallow, and there's nothing technically challenging...

I just stuck mine in the web with a row of noggins to keep them all in place. Presumably you could sit yours on a couple of 4x2's screwed to the flange if they need to go higher.

Looks like you're good at digging! Why not just chuck a few tonnes of concrete down the back of the bottom wall to increase its capacity. If you want to build a second wall, I think it would need to "replace" the first wall entirely, otherwise all you've got is a a pile of bricks and concrete...

Put 3 bricks on top of existing retaining wall and lower the higher ground near the top wall (safe enough if you don't go below top of the foundation).

It's generally quite easy to modify the ceiling joists to accommodate an off the shelf size hatch with a built in ladder and sprung door.

Well it all seems to work! I'd already bought the Manhattan. I have: Split the feed from the new £10 Screwfix loft aerial recommended in my other thread into 3 - one to the Manhattan and one each to the other TVs. Split the shotgun cable from the old Humax to the two downstairs TVs which...

He's wondering about roof spread (do the rafters and the floor/ceiling joists form a triangle?). Generally this would push the wall plate off the back of the wall and/or push the wall over (hard to tell from the pictures if this is the case) and the strapping suggested would do nothing...

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Bought a car at the weekend that hasn't been serviced since 2017. Runs lovely. I reckon it could have done another year - the oil looked nice and oily when it came out. Haven't checked the valve stems yet but tyres seem to be staying up ok. In my opinion, most problems with cars seem to...

If it says no signal check the sat dish or aerial. If you can watch an existing PVR/VHS recording it unlikely to be the TV.

Gabion baskets probably the best budget/DIY option - AI or some manufacturers may give design advice. The baskets plus at least a lorry load of stone plus the labour of filling them. If stacked behind the wall they would at least prevent a dangerous collapse.

I assumed it's the first floor of a multi-storey building.

I use masonry hangers. I know people do it, but the idea of my floor being held up by a dozen bolts stuck in the side of the building equivalent of Weetabix bothers me. Here's some AI waffle which may or may not be true:

Don't take my word for it, but seems legit.

We want to record stuff on the Manhattan recorder anywhere downstairs and have it available on the TV upstairs and vice versa. We have the same setup at the moment, only 2 rooms not 3 with an obsoleteish hdr1100 and an old 20m hdmi lead from lounge 2 to the ancient bedroom TV (being replaced by...

I need to achieve this: I originally thought a 1 in 4 out HDMI splitter and long HDMI cables but think I was barking up the wrong tree and I should be looking at splitter, adaptors and Cat 6 cables? I think I'm ok with the ir remote extenders (they'll plug into to adaptors). These are about...

Just put some long ducts in. 110mm soil pipe is cheap and easy and you can core drill nice tidy holes to the outside. No need for fans, as said the air just "drifts" around.

Assuming it's deep enough to fit your car, you could just run a edging across the front of your house to form a path and fall your drive out to the street and avoid any "hump".

Knauf Dritherm 32 is a readily available "high performance" full fill cavity batt. Personally I'd see how wide the cavity is (hopefully a generous 50mm) and try to widen it a bit to squeeze 75mm in - you could step out the brickwork by up to 20mm without issue.

I doubt the device relies on a seal between itself and a brick wall to keep water out so I'd just leave it.