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I want to add a path using 450mm paviours x2 wide along the base of a gable end house wall, to give a walkway. The ground slopes away from the wall. I am not sure how to edge the paviours. For the edge: hardcore or concrete then build 2 courses of bricks to level . Then not sure how to finish...

The pressure is pretty good mostly, but dips when the house use theirs, e.g. mornings and filling the paddling pool. The valves are all fully open AFAIK. Bristol Water did not mention the supply pressure as any issue on the site visit. I have planning permission to erect a 50mSq shed which I may...

The pipe used is black alkathene class D. 280 yards of 1" to the house then 70 yards of 3/4" to my bungalow. Laid in 1979. Class D 1" is 21.9mm bore. Class D 3/4" is 17.5mm bore. My bungalow was garages until 2004, hence the reason for the smaller bore.

For a separate supply. New connection by Bristol Water: £5200 Chlorine test of new pipe: £250 ish Laying 350m of 32mm new pipe, some or all barrier pipe: £5-6k. Or a bore hole: £8k ish?

My bungalow shares the water supply with one house. The water pipe is 350 yards from the Bristol water mains on the road. The flow rate is about 10litres/minute measured by the time takn to fill a 1litre jug. I get low flow rates occassionally so considering a water pump. The plumbing system is...

Thanks for all your advice. Particularly valid is the neighbour considerations.

I am after suggestions for driveway gates on a shared entrance to define the boundary . Slope is 7 degrees. Maybe two gates for cars or one for cars and one for pedestrians? Wooden I guess as a fencing is added to either end of the gates for the boundary. In the pic between the edge of the house...

The water pipe from the road supplies two properties, but no meter or inspection chamber on the road, it is charged on rateable value. The pipe is 1" class D black alkathene from the road to my mother's house and 3/4" from my mother's house to mine. The new pipe will be 300m long, through an...

Thank you. The cu is a split board with rcds

I built a shed and moved an external socket within it. The socket is fed from the main cu on a 16A mcb via 2.5mm armoured cable. What is the best way to add lights and a few socket in the shed?

3mx4m shed onto blocks on the flat, floor is going to be 47x125 x4m C24 joists onto joist hangers on the 3m length. Then stud walls and pitched roof. The blocks are laid onto sand. Blocks are three high on the RHS and two high on the LHS. I thought of repeating the middle section at each end...

A planning application for a shed/office (50msq) in my garden has been made, with a view to conversion to a house in 10 years time. So want to trench new electrical supply to the electcity pole under what is the garden of my mother's old house, which is for sale and under offer. Easier now than...

The exsting windows are small and on one side only so the room is dark. Trusses are 400mm. I have seen pictures with Velux spanning 2-3 trusses but with no noggins. So do Velux make bespoke windows such as 400 wide, as the std ones are 550 minimum, or is it best to span more than one truss?

Thank you, I misunderstood.

As I understand it, you suggest to extend the undercloak and then to retile so the tiles extend further out from the wall? From searching online the undercloak overhang is recommended to be no more than 50mm. Perhaps greater overhang is possible with 300m wide undercloak rather than the current...

The ply of the valley board is rotting where it protrudes from the wall under the lead, due to the weather. I did it this way to support the lead at the end of the valley to get the water to flow into the gutter. I did not think the verge strip would be strong enough to support the lead. So can...

If the heating does not work at all and the hot water tries to but fails, that suggests and electrical fault?

For hot water, it does when I switch off the hot water demand, the lockout light goes off inside 3 seconds. There is just enough oil, not a lot though. 1.25 bar, red line is at 1.5 so could do with some more, but not that low.

Fitted in 2005. Serviced annually. Expansion tank replaced two years ago. Seven day timer. Converted to a system boiler in 2020. There has been a lockout 3 to 4 times in the past year and after a reset it has worked fine for 3 months or so. Now it is in lockout and the burner will not fire. Say...

External wooden door is warped so considering replacing it with a composite door. The wooden threshold sits on a concrete pad, which I am not sure whether to remove or not? Do I remove the concrete or not?