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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi, I am having an extension built and need to heat a 3m x 3m room. I have no gas at my property so no 'central heating'. Just economy 7 storage heaters in the other rooms. I thought, that for simplicities sake that I could install a 150/200watt (pmsq) underfloor heating mat type system...

Hi, I know this is probably a dumb question but I have planning permission for an extension to the rear of my property which will involve building over a minor public sewer. I understand that I need to get build over permission from Southern Water, but they are asking for £867.60 just to...

Hi, I have planning permission for an extension and I am trying to keep my costs down. In order to build the extension I need to demolish an existing single story, flat roofed out building. This is quite close to my neighbours conservatory which I don't want to damage. Having never...

Hi, I've had planning permission for a single storey extension to the rear of my house. I have spoken to my local building control office and they say i have 2 options - full building regs permission or a building notice. Both options cost about the same, but I'll need building regs drawings...

I am about to build a conservatory, and need to put down the foundations. I am building from a kit which has a steel base which sits on 8 concrete pillars for the foundation. Could someone tell me what sort of concrete mix would be best? The pillars are 450mm cubed. Alternatively, can...

Hi, I am considering building my own conservatory and have been looking at the following company: http://www.ezebuilder.co.uk/page2.html has anyone had any experience of the EZEbase system (a steel base instead of concrete) or conservatories and got any useful advice before i commit to buying...

Hi, I have installed 4 linked Mains powered smoke alarms in my house and they have been fine until yesterday. They have started letting out an intermittant 'beep' about every 55 seconds. I called the manafacturer who told me they had no idea why they would do this and suggested i cleaned them...