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The rear wall of our outbuilding forms part of the boundary of our property. Recently there has been a lot of damp coming through the walls inside the building at a low level, it's rotted the wood battens and the plasterboard completely. When I stripped the plasterboard back, after a heavy...

The ancient plastic roof on our conservatory has failed following a freak hail storm recently and is leaking in several places. I want to replace it with a slate tiled roof but I'm unsure if this is possible due to the weight. The conservatory is rectangular, about 3m x 5m. Two of the edges...

I am helping out the village hall in our village, the committee want to extend the network in their main building to another building about 20 yards away, another local chap has offered 50m of network cable he has lying around, they want to do this as cheaply as possible (well actually they...

I've volunteered to help restore a red phonebox in our village that was bought by the Parish and now houses a defibrillator. It's actually in pretty good condition but needs all new glass and paint. We've got a source for the glass and the paint but my question is on the prep work. Would you...

We have an old 1880s stone building with various floor coverings downstairs, we've discovered through lifting a few bits here and there that the flooring is simply layed over the original flagstones, which themselves appear to be layed directly on the earth (we guess this because we often get...

Hi all, We have a very old (1800s) property that has double iron gates that open outward due to a rising driveway that makes inwards opening not possible. We would like to automate them for convenience (and security, as being manual we tend to leave them open). All of the information I can...

Is it acceptable to run T+E cable in conduit along a fence to a shed? The alternative would be burying it but the route goes through mature flower beds and would be very disruptive.

We've had some pretty sideways torrential rain the last few days and at some point the RCD for my EV charger tripped. I went to reset it today and noticed that the inside of my meter box is absolutely sodden. Not dripping wet as such but the cork backing board that everything is screwed to is...

The house we bought has 3 lighting circuits with 16A MCBs, most of the loops are done with 2.5mm T+E but I’ve discovered as we’ve been decorating that a lot of the spurs, drops and internal fixture wiring is either 1.5mm or 1mm flex/T&E. This is inherently unsafe right? The consumer unit is...

We moved into an old school building (built circa 1880) that was converted by turning the each of the 2 high-roofed halls into 2-storey accomodation. The roof spaces have been left with the original timbers. At the end of each of the halls the gables have these old fashioned ventialtion...

Please help. I cannot fathom these instructions for this free-standing bath filler https://images.victorianplumbing.co.uk/images/PDF/TRAD03D-FS-nEW.pdf It seems to assume you are able to get under the floor to attach the supply end of the feed pipes to the hot and cold supply after you have...

Hi all, Renovating my bathroom at the moment and discovered that the previous plumber had put the waste pipe for the sink/bath/shower into the vertical sewage pipe above the floor level (meaning all of the wastes were ultimately flowing uphill - which explains the poor drainage in the room!)...

My new property has an TT earth but at some point someone has put block paving over the earth spike location making it unservicable/uninspectable, although it is within acceptable impedance limits currently. The property also has a PME supply which is currently not connected to the installation...

Hi all, When installing a 3-core SWA cable on a single phase installation where one of the internal cores is being used as the CPC, is it still required to earth the SWA armour layer? Thanks!

Hi all, We're looking to buy a house at the moment. The property is generally sound but even to my partially knoweldgable eye there are some serious defects with the electrics, including: - Undersized conductors for circuits - Inappropriate MCB specification and circuits for applicances -...

Hi folks, What should I repair this with? Is it just standard brick-laying mortar? cheers

I am fitting a video doorbell for a friend, what I thought was going to be a simple job turned out to be more complex as despite the chime box being 60 cm from the fuse box, it turns out the chime doesn’t contain a bell transformer at all and is in fact battery powered with C cell batteries...

Hi all, I selected Pod Point to do my 7kW EV charger installation. I've paid upfront, they've done all the paperwork and want to schedule the install, but they are being strangely difficult about how it's done. They consider a 'standard install' to be when the supply runs directly from the...

Folks, When my boiler was installed, the installer was 50/50 on whether I needed a plume kit given the location of the boiler. In the end we opted against as none of the neighbours had installed plume kits on the row. Recently in the cold weather the plume steam is sending the motion detection...

Hi folks, I want to run supply pipe to an outdoor kitchen sink. There is already an outside tap about 6 yards from there the sink would be, supplied from inside via a double check valve and isolater to turn the outdoor segment off during winter. My plan is to take a spur off this, into 20mm...