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Thank you for the replies, hopefully a repair will be as suggested. I can isolate the house supply easy enough. I had/have some premonitions of the thing disintegrating as I tried to remove the nut and me being in the mire. I'll get a professional in and pay for the pleasure... Cheers

1950's house, just uncovered the mains water stopcock in the utility room behind the sink unit, it is 3/4 inch iron (I think) and the stopcock is weeping from the gland and very stiff. It shuts down the flow around 95% but not completely. My preference would be to replace it but being 3/4...

That was the other thing I wondered about, the front garden is to the right as you can see in attached photo. That could be a good choice.

It's an early 50's house and only new as in I recently bought it. Annoyingly the other 3/4 of the same drive run away to the road without pooling so it is just the section shown.

I don't think it is clay but I can check that out, I could try a smaller hole and if that soaks away even slowly I can try a bigger one.

that is what I was thinking, or a slightly larger hole in the middle of the puddle area and inserting a metal grate.

Hi all, I have a problem in my new house which has a concrete drive, the section nearest the house pools water after it rains which means standing in a puddle when loading/unloading the cat boot etc. We will eventually look at e-laying the drive but for the medium term we need a way of...

Thank you Ladylola, that is a great suggestion and easy enough to do, I will get to it.

Hi all, I need to drill a neat couple of holes through the side of a chimney breast to run some HDMI cables for a wall mounted TV. I am thinking of using a 28x300mm diamond core bit as the depth i need to drill is around 280mm. As these drills do not use guide bits I was wondering how...

Gents, took on board the diagram tips, stuck with Visio as I know how to use it even though it is not easiest to use for this. I had mistakenly assumed the grey cable was to the switch which confused me and everyone else. Well done mfarrow for working out my mistake. Anyway, Have...

Point taken :-) I will assemble something ala Wiki examples and cone back for more wisdom. And advice on drawing package ti use ? I have Microsoft Visio and it's a bit of a pig for this.

Hi bAS, Told you it was a puzzle, I can confirm that what is in my diagram is what is in place both before and now. I accept that it looks wrong and that the functions of various wires might not match their colours. I suspect that it may be tied into what is in the adjacent room as the...

Based on above I tried this and it works:

Riveralt, this is what puzzled me, what is powering the lights, as this seems missing a cable. I checked and one of the 2 white cables and the top one in the diagram is live feed, the bottom one is not so assume is supply to the 6 down lights. There could be more to this in the ceiling...

I can confirm there is only 3 connectors as shown, plus the 4th cable that was not connected and confirmed to be connected to the dimmer switch. I tested what Riveralt suggested with a pendant light and now both lights work independently from the 2-gang dimmer switch.

The diagram is what has been in place for the last 2 years with a working set of 6 lights from one of the controls on the 2-gang dimmer. I am wondering f it is the end of the loop and so one of the white cables is the feed to the 6 down lights ?

Hi Ban-all-sheds, thanks for response, in the interests of any others reading this I will try and clear up any ambiguity. So, the 4 cables from the ceiling: 1 x twin & earth cable that is not connected at the ceiling but I confirmed it is connected to the double gang dimmer switch, red...

Thank you Riveralt, that made sense and was exactly the solution. I should have mentioned that the earth is present and connected in all cases as the switch and lights are metal cased.

Hi, I had some house renovation work done a couple of years back and the electrician provided me new lighting in the dining room-to-be consisting of 6 low voltage down lights and a central single lighting point. Both lighting systems are controlled by a double dimmer switch in the room. As...