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Hi, We had a perfectly functioning landline which had been there since we moved in, it’s a Virgin Media one and was just a regular telephone socket on the wall with a wire going outside to the sealed plastic VM box. we had some building works done tail end of last year and it got...

Bit of an open ended question I'm sure, but scenario is this. Single skin brick garage with concrete floor, approx 100mm thick (as I've drilled a hole through it). Is the floor independent from the wall, i.e could the wall sink/raise and the slab stay still or are they integrally linked?

Hello, My property has had a small "extension consisting of a dwarf wall and UPVC upper, I suppose like a conservatory but not quite as grand. Where the dwarf twin skin cavity wall meets the main house there is a 15mm or so gap filled with what looks like silicone sealant that has begun to...

I've got a Drayton RTS1 replacing an old Randall unit. There's 4 wires wired up as follows, Yellow = 1, Blue = N, Red = 3 and Green is Earth; 2 is empty: The new unit looks like this, Obviously neutral is self explanatory, 3 I'm guessing goes to 3 on the new unit making yellow "live" ? If...

Hi guys, My garage has sunk/moved in one corner, that's the best way I can describe it. As you look at the front where the door is, the right hand pillar is approximately 2 inches lower than the left, the door is well off square and no longer opens and the water pools on the flat roof in this...

Hi guys, In the near future I'm going to be studding out half my garage for use as a fish-room. Probably sounds extremely odd to you lot, but it's to store my fish tanks in and coral breeding setups. As a result I need the temperature in there to be pretty stable. I've seen a variety of...

Hi all, first post here. I moved into my new house in December and noticed the garage door is not straight. I've heard horror stories regarding the springs in garage doors so am reluctant to touch it until someone has had a look. I've attached some pictures of it from both the inside and the...