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Hello. I bought a fancy Twyford round E200 corner sink and the mounting bolts they recommend. Trouble is, the sink doesn't have the cutouts you'd expect to take the bolts. There are slots in the back, but they're both near the back corner - not by the outer edges where they'd be able to...

That looks like just the stuff I was wanting. What size would you recommend for a regular oil feed? I'm having a guess that the 19mm would be a bit tight? Again, thanks. P.

I'm guess I'm saying I have a healthy sense of paranoia. It's not me I don't trust, it's everyone else. Look like there might be a gap in the market for some sort of pipe capping though. If only I wasn't so lazy.

That would have been perfect, if I'd only thought of it before it had been installed. Looks like I'll have to cobble something together, otherwise I can see it getting broken and spraying 500 liters of kerosene over the garden. Although that would save some weeding I suppose. Cheers.

Hello. I've just had a new external, oil-fired boiler fitted and the oil supply pipe runs from the tank to the boiler above ground, clipped to a wall. I'm a bit worried that it's exposed to knocks - also the plastic coating on the copper is white and stands out lime a sore thumb. So my...

Brilliant, thank you. No shower cables up there, just a 1mm2 lighting radial. And what looks like an old rat nest. So it looks like I should be more worried about Leptospirosis than overheating wires. Awesome. Ta, P.

Hi everyone. I'm going to be boarding the loft before it gets too cold. Got some loft legs to up the insulation by another 170mm while I'm at it. Good practice is to keep wiring on top of insulation, but this isn't always possible. I was thinking of running the lighting cables through...

We bought a Lidgett garage a few years ago. The garage itself is fine, but the installers didn't put much care into putting it together. We were away when it was installed and they'd left it with a soffit board missing, no end cap on the gutter and a cracked fascia. The up-and-over door wasn't...

Hello there. I just posted this in the 'Appliances' section, but I thought this might be a better place to pose the question: We have a Lofra cooker. It’s only two years old but it’s started to trip the RCD (the house is wired to the 11th) when it gets to temperature and the thermostat clicks...

Hello there. I have a Lofra cooker, it’s only two years old but it’s started to trip the RCD (the house is wired to the 11th) when it gets to temperature and the thermostat clicks the element off. In a way it’s handy because when the TV goes off, I know it's ready. But it’s not really...

Hi. Thanks for the quick reply oharaf. I was hoping that I wouldn't be breaking any rules if I swapped the wire for a piece of 16mm2 myself, to save taking a day off work waiting in for the DNO bloke. But if the clamps are the wrong type, that's scuppered that plan. Again, cheers for your...

Hi chaps. Something doesn’t seem quite right with my MEB, and I'd like to get an opinion more professional than mine about it. I’m pretty sure my earth is a TN-S system, although a couple of things puzzle me: One, the main earth bond only seems to be in about 4mm2 wire. And it’s the old...

Hello. I’m planning to install a roddable bottle gully drain beneath the kitchen window to catch the waste from the sink and washing machine. This will be run around the house with a wide bend to the existing foul pipe, about 5 meters away. The join will be around 3 meters downstream of where...

Great. Thanks a lot for your help. Much appreciated.

Cheers for that. If I rawbolted the joists to the side wall, like you say, would it really be necessary to replace the trimmer, as it stops having to take as much weight? That said, what do you reckon to double joisting the trimmer with a new joist bolted to it, then notching the top of both of...

The final (fourth) photo is taken looking back to where my foot was. A long time ago, someone had fitted a sink in the bedroom for the old lady who used to live here. The big empty hole is where the drain for it ran. Once the soil pipe is outside, I intend to run the sink and bath drains...

Sorry about that. You should be able to see them now. Cheers.

No problem. I can't work out how to make the pictures appear in this window, but here's a link to my album with the pictures in: //www.diynot.com/network/ThrumptonPerriwhistle/albums/661 The plan is to move the soil pipe outside and put (electric) underfloor heating in the bathroom...

In the corner of my bathroom there’s a cupboard. It used to be the airing cupboard, as the hot water tank once sat directly below it in the kitchen. To let the warm air circulate, the dividing bit of floor was left out – not cut away, but never created. I’d like to get rid of the cupboard to...