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Hi all, A while ago I raised the height of the roof on my attached garage. There is a small concrete block wall above the garage door which is rendered on both the front and back. I had a builder over when I raised it and he rendered it for me as a favour. At the time of doing the rendering...

Good morning all. I have an external power socket at the front of my house enclosed in an IP66 enclosure. I'm looking to install an external tap out there too so that I can wash the car and also wash the front garden with a pressure washer. I wanted to know how much of a gap there should be...

Hi all, I went to see a house which was for sale yesterday afternoon. Some of the electric sockets are in the wrong places. If I was to buy it, I'd want to change a few of these around. However, when I lifted the carpet to see if there was any access to plumbing pipework, I realised that the...

Hi all, I went to see a house which was for sale this afternoon. The radiators in this house were pretty old and knackered. If I was to buy it, I'd want to change these to the newer upright ones. However, when I lifted the carpet to see if there was any access to the pipework, I realised that...

Hi all, I've been having major issue with damp patches on an external wall. I live in an end of terrace property and the outside flank wall seems to have a major amount of damp in the middle of the wall - none of the render is loose on the outside. I can't for the life of me work out where the...

Hi all, I'm looking to have a sewer manhole moved as per the attached plans. What is the process of this? How is this done? Many thanks for your help. The notes relating to the to the sewer move read as the following: NEW MANHOLE: New manhole must be constructed of 215mm class...

Hi all again..... I posted a topic a while back about my shower unit tripping it's MCB. This issue was fixed by an electrician at the time but now I seemingly have another problem. It's a Creda 10.5kW shower unit fed by 12m of 10mm twin & earth cable, fed by a 45Amp MCB. The cable runs...

Hi all, I have a Saniflo Pro system in my under stairs area servicing 1 WC and 1 hand basin. It has been working fine until my wife flushed a baby wet wipe down the WC. It now seems to be caught in the macerator which makes a loud noise when operated. Does anyone have any instructions...

Good morning all, Over the past week, the MCB for my electric shower has tripped once. On switching it on again it stays on and the shower is usable again. It happened again this morning and now on trying to switch the MCB on again there is no switch like feeling coming from it and it...

Good morning all, I have an external light with a PIR sensor on it which is normally left on for security reasons. Recently though, it seems to come on by itself. On looking outside, there are no cats/birds/persons etc out there? It just seems to come on for no reason at all? Is this a...

I posted a topic regarding my outbuilding/office and had a question regarding the lighting. There will be 6 LED spot lights in the ceiling in 3 rows of 2. The rows can either be set up in parallel or in series. I remember at school parallel lights running off of a battery shone less...

Hi all, I've had an outbuilding/office built at the end of my garden and am thinking of installing some electric heaters out there. The outbuilding has it's own RCD protected consumer unit and having calculated it, a 2kw heater, 12 meters away from the consumer unit requires a 1mm cable...

Hi all, the upstairs bay window has a large patch of damp under it. After investigation, I can see that the windows frame sills on the outside (which are made of wood) have been pulled apart and there is a gap between the frame sills at either sides of the bay and the one at the front of the...

Hi all, I had a new kitchen fitted about 2 years ago and rather than connecting the ducting to the hood before fixing the hood to the wall, the fitter screwed the hood to the wall and tried connecting the ducting to the hood at the end. The problem is that there is very little space at the...

Hi all, I'm looking to install a residential wireless CCTV camera where the camera hangs down from the ceiling. I need a socket to power a camera with but do not have any power sockets in the loft from where to take an extenion and power the camera from. I do however have the upstairs...