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I got up on a ladder and had a look at the cover piece and it seemed okay. Whilst I was there put some more sealant over bits that might not have been 100% good. So far it seems to have stopped the leak. But the leak happened after a few days of very heavy rain coming from the North East...

I wasn't sure where to put this but as it is about water ingress I plumped for the roofing forum. My conservatory has a leak, it is 13 years old, see pictures. Looks to me like it is getting in either under the sealant on the wall, or under the sealant bead that runs vertically an inch or...

I have a problem with the facia boards on my porch, see photos. The timber is quite sound, it doesn't seem to be rotten, more a case of it de-laminating. Not sure how the water got in, but the delamination seems to be happening from the outside, that is the bit facing out. I think some water...

The point of flexible hose for the hob would be that if I were to attempt to change the units under the worktop holding the hob I could probably get away with it (i.e. without changing the worktop). Just realised it must be pretty much standard to use a flexible fitting with a cooker, so that...

Hi, Can a gas cooker (i.e. a free-standing unit with burners on top and an oven underneath) be connected with a flexible pipe? I ask this as I am thinking of buying a new cooker and want to be able to move it around a little bit (just a few inches each way) if I fit new units and worktops...

Thanks for the advice and sorry I have been unsure of some terminology and just plain daft with some. When I said "under the sink" I should have said "under the hob", may bad for sure. I'm not sure what to call the thing under the hob, it is a cover with a box underneath and in the box...

Answers: 1 - the existing socket is not a 13amp three-pin. It is a cover plate over a box, inside the box there are screw-down connectors I think. 2 - there is a big switch above the worktops marked "cooker" which switches on/off power to the socket under the sink. There is a unit in the...

The existing socket is not in use just now, and am not thinking of putting any kind of oven in the space underneath the oven (will be using a table-top oven plugged in with a standard 13amp socket to a different circuit). The WIKI refered to above has alot of blank pages, I can only see info...

Hello, I am thinking of replacing a gas hob with an electric hob. I will get the gas hob removed by a registered gas fitter (at the same time as he/she does a boiler service). The hob will be in a space which had an an electric cooker in it many years ago, there is a wall-socket underneath...

Thank you, there are no other cracks in the PC frames. But there are some cracks in the walls. It is a lean-to conservatory, with the main aspect facing east. The house is on a hill, so the conservator has an underbuild of a few feet, with a suspended timer floor. On the south side there...

I have a conservatory built roughly three years ago. There are eight panels and four of them have cracks. The cracks are all on the UPVC frame radiating from the corner weld, all at the bottom of the frame. They are just hairline cracks, barely visible unless you are looking for them. The...

Thank you, sounds about right. Think I will have to abandon this idea of using a sound bomb. So, would I be able to use the bell out of an old telephone, what voltage do they work on?

The bell-push and cable work okay with a more conventional bell which I have in use already, so would I be right to assume that the bell-push must be breaking the circuit properly? Not sure what the second question means, the cable from the bell-push to the actual ringer is not running...

Well I finally got round to trying this. Yes it is too loud, maybe not a great idea after all. But also a technical problem which I don't understand. The power source I have is an old mains unit rated 6v 500mA (it is a heavy one so I think it has a transformer inside). It works fine...

Thank you folks, might give it a go, can always muffle it a bit if i need to, or maybe will look for loud bell.

Hello, I want to make loud door bell. I already have a push button outside the house and wires leading inside the house. I was wondering if I could use a sound bomb an an old 12v mains unit? Would the sound bomb make its loud noise when the circuit was completed by somebody...