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My reset button holds, pops at whatever temp I set it at but continues heating. I'll get a new one then disassemble the old one and post a pic if there's anything to see.

Hopefully that worked! If not check in my albums. Live (brown) on right is between the element connection and the thermostat, live (brown) on left between electricity supply and thermostat. Neutral (blue) dirct from mains to element post. Earth on earth post. Any ideas or just a faulty...

Hi, I have an immersion heater with an 18in thermostat with an adjustable temp cutout and reset button. The problem I have is that although the reset button 'pops' out when the water reaches the temerature set (65 deg) the water continues to heat up - basically the reset bit is not cutting...

Hi, I have just installed some pushfit plumbing in my home and some of the fittings state do not exceed 65 degrees. This shouldn't be a problem but I know that occasionally my water can get hotter than this if I have an open fire burning in my house as there is a back boiler in it which also...

Hi, Simple question, how many doors do you have to have between your kitchen and downstairs toilet? I have no kitchen door, just an archway in to it and am building an extension that has a toilet in. The toilet obviously has a door. I've done a search on here and tried to decipher the...

Magic, Thank you Blagard. So as my new toilet floor is less than 1.3m above the base of the drain (sewer) it won't need to have a vented stack and i'll get one of those WC connectors with the vent boss to connect the sink to and get a trap for the sink with an AAV on correct?

Hi, I am putting in a downstairs toilet but it doesn't connect to the existing vented stack that my upstairs toilet connects to. Instead the waste pipe runs under the floor directly to the inspection chamber of the sewer where the current stack connects to. The new toilet waste pipe is...

so I can put a bend in the new wc run providing the bend aren't too steep? That is what I'm trying to clarify I guess (like the blue pipe I drew but connecting up behind the back of the manhole)?

The existing chamber is about 1.3 metres deep and as you look down it ith has the waste from upstairs toilet running through the middle in the direction of the arrows on the black 'pipe' drawing and also the current kitchen and upstairs bathroom waste water running in to it at a slight angle...

Hi, I am at the head on of a sewer (no one upstream from me). I want to put a new toilet in downstairs and connect to the existing foul waste drain/sewer. My builder has said that you cannot have any bends in the waste pipe between the toilet and the sewer. Having looked at the...

maybe I should post this in plumbing section?

Hi, I am at the head on of a sewer (no one upstream from me). I want to put a new toilet in downstairs and connect to the existing foul waste drain/sewer. My builder has said that you cannot have any bends in the waste pipe between the toilet and the sewer. Having looked at the building...

:) I've spoken to my BCO and found that I cant use them. Cavity wall from top to bottom inside it is (or installing a lintel on top of a block wall and then building a low cavity wall on top of this - seems like too much aggravation). Thanks for reading though.

Hi, I am building an extension which is in 2 parts, one section set at a slightly higher level than the other (one part is at current floor level, the other part is lower to help prevent light loss from next door) the wall between these 2 sections is mainly internal but has about 200mm...

It looks narrow, but it hasn't been fully excavated yet (will be today). The sewer also passes over a 90deg corner in the foundation. the trenches are all 600mm wide and vary from a metre deep to almost 2 metres as the garden is on a slope. The water company is all sorted, no build over...

I'm no builder or BCO but I am building a single storey extension on my house and I had a similar outhouse which I have knocked down to allow me to extend the kitchen and put in a loo shower and another bedroom/office. In answer to question 2 - My BCO said that The rear face of the out house...

Hi, I have just started digging the trenches for the footings for my extension. There is a waste pipe that runs through the foundations as you will see in my picture (I couldn't rotate it so tip your head 90 degrees to the left). The pipe is the old clay style wastepipe, but when they originally...

Yes, the wall I'm joining to is a party wall. I like the idea of a 215mm wall and using insulating board all the way down, but I'd need pretty thick board and I'm trying to limit losing any internal space as most of the existing wall is the side of a 900mm wide corridor. Am I correct that...

ok, I won't sneak out over the boundary, but a 2cm overhang internally is more acceptable than a 5cm overhang on what should have been a flush surface. Still, if anyone can give me any advice on making the cavity wall as thin as possible that would be great.

How 'thin' can i make an external cavity wall and still meet the expected U rating of .28? The reason I ask is that the current side wall of my house is only 23cm thick so when the extension goes up the new wall will be about 5cm wider meaning that it will not run flush internally (I presume...