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Not had chance to get up there with the rain it's a guess at the 4" as I can see an old gutter bracket the same size as mine and there's a good 1-2cm of free space between it and their gutter.. It's been up atleast 10 years.

Have a leak between my neighbours gutter and mine. Mines 4.5" 114mm, theirs is smaller possibly 4" (I will measure it soon). I can't seem to find and unions to joint these properly? With expansion etc I don't think sealant will last using a 114mm union? It's been leaking a number of years and...

Any ideas? i'm hoping to do this soon but a little worried adding a new rad from there will cause flow issues?

Not sure why but I had a feeling that adding a radiator return to this old drain off/isolator valve was a bad idea but now i've drawn it out it looks like the same situation as the radiator above. Does this setup cause any issues? in my mind the water has 2 flows hitting head on? larger pipe is...

Thanks all i'll take a look at the mk dimmer inline option as that sound cheapest and plug and play.

Thanks i've googled some more and the feature im looking for is "soft start" it looks like a lot of dimmer switches will do this but I'll have to do more digging to see how the PIR will or will not fit in the mix.

Thanks I did google but its seems a decent product doesn't exist for 240v. I'm sure they had nice fade in lighting in star trek in the 90's its a shame we haven't yet caught up. :)

I'm looking replace the lights in my porch with a ceiling PIR and 2 downlights. Ideally i'm looking to have the lights build up the brightness over a few seconds instead of instant brightness. Any ideas? I've found a PIR and downlights but struggling with the fading.

Possibly, I will pick up a new mk switch. Failing that I'll have look under the floorboards and see if there any joint boxes but everything appears to terminate in the ceiling rose.

Hi all, Have a long on going issue at my mothers house, one ceiling light will work fine after its not been used for a while but occasionally after switching it off and trying to put it back on it doesn't work until as my mum says "you have to wait till its cooled down". I've replaced the...

I already have a good 20m of 2.5 on a roll in the garage so will cost me nothing and will have no other use for it. I didnt want to put it on a spur off the kitchen ring since it already has its own circuit. Thought it may also come in handy one day if needed with a bigger MCB. Thanks for the...

Hi, I'm having a new boiler installed in a new location the other side of the house. The current setup is an old convential boiler with pump/diverter valves etc. The current circuit is a 6a MCB feeding the boiler / burglar alarm. Coming from the consumer unit is 2x 1.5mm cables on that MCB...

Yeah it is quite low. The previous owners put laminate and some silver insulation tiles on the floor which also raised it and I'm gonna check under the lost insulation to see is it's plasterboard above the wood t&g. Obviously in the bath your even closer to the ceiling :|

Ceiling is 2.22m so to save hassle I think I'll just get a newer better looking single light. Darn.

I'm planning on replacing an old wood tongue and groove ceiling in the bathroom with a pvc t&g ceiling. I want to replace the single light (rose style) with 3 downlights in a pack made by "Philips MyBathroom" replacing the bulbs with led gu10s I plan to put the existing rose into a JB and...

Thanks guys, yes there is no earth beyond the kitchen light, it has had some refurb work done and a wall removed at some point and looks like they ran a newer cable to the fluorescent tube light which has a earth and also to the 3 switch back box that also switches this light. I've not seen a...

aye when I had the floorboards up I tried to get a route back to the CU by feeding some trunking between the joists luckily i can get to under the bath and from a bit of fishing i could probably get to the cu from inside the cavity. So one day a new lighting circuit shouldn't be too much...

Changing an old 70's light fitting in my house (made from metal!! and no earth other than first light on circuit for some reason) After taking the fitting down i found a long flex cable and after digging around lifting floor boards i found the junction box. I'm going to replace it with...

Hi, Im putting a new kitchen in and have a convential boiler with a hot water cylinder. The cylinder is quite old looking. At the minute I have a cold and hot water tap in the kitchen. It seems that separate taps are old school and hard to get a decent sink with 2 tap holes. Problem is...

Great that puts my mind at ease again. Next hurdle is plumbing then finding a space for the b&q kitchen delivery :shock: