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Hi guys - thank you very much for the confirmation. I’ll proceed as planned. Madrab: these two pipes are grey water only (sink and washing machine). There is a downstairs WC in the next room that runs under this new utility through the same pipes and we’ll consider rodding access in there...

Hi folks. I have a pair of 110mm push fit soil pipes in a room that used to be a WC but is being converted into a utility. The 110m pipe connections I refer to are a 90 and a tee and are buried in the concrete slab. The connecting lip of each 110mm fitting sits flush with the top of the concrete...

Got it!!! Sod’s Law. Looking for anges and I find it just after I posted. Anyway the kit is commonly called an elephants foot or a connector bend. The image above is a BY/Openreach type connector bend no.4 which is easily available. All the different types are available on the millsLtd.co.uk...

thanks both. Closest thing I've seen is this, which seems to be for telecoms but would allow a transition from a flexible round underground duct to a wall plate/brick buster.

Hi everyone. We have a couple of outbuildings to which we're fitting new electrical supplies. There's a few different cables being used so we're using ducting to give us flexibility and we're burying it this weekend when the digger driver arrives. We're using 50/63mm Ridgicoil from Polypipe...

Hi folks - after a bit of quick rule-of-thumb advice. We're converting a detached garage into a gym. Its a relatively recent single skin dense concrete block construction. Slate roof and we've bricked up the original garage door and have fitted a double glazed french door for access. We've...

Hi everyone. Just moving into a new house with a very nicely built detached single garage (cavity walls, slate roof and double glazing). The garage is not needed as we're building a much larger one elsewhere but it is ideal to house our home gym (in our current place this is in a spare...

Thank you very much - that’s a great tip. Hadn’t thought of that, so will get onto the planning portals pronto.

I've been struggling to find anywhere to gain advice for this... then remembered the forum! We're about to complete on a house in South Cheshire near the Shropshire border and I'm in need of a professional to prepare a set of drawings (both planning and building regs) for the construction of a...

That's really helpful, thanks both. I'll work off the pricing for some floor tiling work we've just had done in our current house (removal and replacement) and will add a few hundered quid to cover a trade coming out to check the underfloor heating before re-tiling.

Hi folks. We've just viewed a property that we love and we're going to put an offer on it. Its a recent (2019) barn conversion that has a heat-pump heating and has underfloor heating throughout the ground floor. The ground floor is tiled. The only issue is that the tiles they have chosen are...

Ace - thanks folks! As much as I’d love to pull it out, with the risk of getting drowned in insulation balls coupled with the knowledge that it clearly isn’t going to do any harm (no transfer of moisture), then I’ll just leave it be and will brick it in. Freddie - don’t worry mate, my gut feel...

The boiler is on our garage. We’ve just had it moved. where the flue went through the wall, the inner thermolite block was always missing. I guess it disintegrated when they drilled the hole. stuffed into the cavity around where the flue passed through is all this stuff that looks like a long...

spot on - thank you.

Hi everyone. I'm in need of some wall plates that have female 1/2" BSP Taper threads. This is something that has long confused me - I had assumed that all plumbing threads (on Conex, Taps, Flexis, etc had been a taper thread... until I actually thought about it and realised that's daft as they...

thanks guys - I'll have a good look

Hi everyone. I need to find a carpet repair tape to go behind a tear. The carpet is actually in a vehicle and is on a vertical face, so the repair will have to resist the effects of gravity pulling the heavy carpet down. As such I don't think a traditional carpet seaming tape will do the job...

Hi everyone. I've just fitted an electric roller shutter door to my garage to replace the old up and over. Now I haven't actually removed the old up and over door yet (the two doors can open and close independently of each other). In order to maximise head height under the lintel, I've fitted...

Thank you. Sod's law, after looking for hours I found the answer after I'd posted the above. My existing hinges are "overlay" and I need "170-degree overlay" - this would open the door fully and would swing it out past the neighbouring door. I found this video: very useful and the ones I...

Hi everyone. We have inbuilt wardrobes in the bedroom with kitchen-type concealed hinges. there’s one wardrobe with double doors. As the doors open, they don’t pivot a neat 90 degrees from the wardrobe carcass. Instead they seem to move inboard with the swing so that when the doors are open...