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  1. J

    Is drain public or private?

    Indeed and between that and the other picture I found it does look like a private drain :-)
  2. J

    Is drain public or private?

    Great thanks all, it does seem to tie up to a document I've now found on one of the water company sites with examples of ownership of drains.
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    Is drain public or private?

    The link below is the crude plan of the drains. The red is what's on the water company's own maps, I've added the blue lines based on what we can see from my house. The orange square is my house. We would want to connect above the manhole to the left of the house, which isn't shared with anyone...
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    Is drain public or private?

    Appreciate the reply thanks. Are you saying that if the drain is shared with a neighbour it's classed as public? On the citizens advice website it says that "If you have a private or unadopted sewer, and own a property, you are responsible for the cost of maintaining and repairing it. If the...
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    Is drain public or private?

    I'm adding an en-suite to a first floor bedroom and the new soil pipe will need to connect into the existing drain on my property. I've contact the water company to find out if the drain running down my driveway is private or public, they told me they had no records of the drains other than...
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    Texecom elite armed via app

    I went away without setting the alarm so thought I'd use the app to set it. However when trying a full arm and not being at the house to open and close the front door it doesn't arm. Will it arm after the set time or does the door have to be closed to set it? I've used the part arm option for...
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    Alarm PIR and door contact share +tive and -tive?

    It's a Texecom Premier Elite 24 panel. Thanks.
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    Alarm PIR and door contact share +tive and -tive?

    I've run some 8 core cable to PIRs and door contacts. In a couple of areas the PIRs and contacts are close to one another, so I ran a single 8 core to cover both. The PIR is 6 wire, the contacts are 4 wire. Can I share a positive and negative between a PIR and a contact, then use the 4 cores...
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    Soil pipe and waste routing advice

    Hi I'm going to run the soil and waste from our bathroom in the loft area and want to check if there are certain things I should or shouldn't be doing. I've attached a very basic picture showing the routing of the soil and waste pipes. The soil pipe is 110mm, the wastes from the...
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    Most efficient setup for heating and DHW

    I've got a Viessman Vitodens 100W system boiler and a 300l Albion unvented DHW cylinder. The heating is wet underfloor downstairs and radiators upstairs. The ground floor covering is engineered floorboards. The user instructions for the boiler and cylinder are next to useless when it comes to...
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    Preferred routing from BT drop cable

    OK, so it sounds like the setup can be: Dropwire to external connection box Internal cable from connection box to comms room master socket I've got a load of external grade STP cat 6 cable, I guess this would be ok to use for the internal wiring from the connection box? (probably...
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    Preferred routing from BT drop cable

    Will they terminate it at a master socket or a junction box?
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    Preferred routing from BT drop cable

    I want BT to come out and reconnect the drop cable on my house. My router will be located on the ground floor roughly in the centre of the house, ideally I'd want the master socket close to this. I could put in some suitable cable to run from the drop cable junction box where it comes into...
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    Single Oven Install - Existing Wiring!

    Had another look at the wiring last night. Half of the kithen is an extension and I'm pretty sure that until our new CU was fitted the sockets in the extension were on their own circuit with a separate fuse on the old fuse box. Now it seems that the RCD in the new CU for the downstairs...
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    Single Oven Install - Existing Wiring!

    Thanks, you confirmed my fears. I think a new oven radial is possible so longs we can hide the first couple of metres of the new mains wiring behind the kitchen cabinets, before we reach the floorboards and can then run it under the floor and up to the CU. If this is allowed I can get an...
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    Single Oven Install - Existing Wiring!

    I have a new oven, it's a 2.35kw single oven. The manual says it must be hard wired on an all poles isolating switch. This seems a bit over kill for a 2.35kw oven and the old one was wired on a 13amp plug. I could get a 45a switch with 13amp socket for trhe microwave like...
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    Repairing a flexible hose for a shower HW supply?

    The shower unit is an enclosed cubicle with a shower column and controls for the shower on one side. The flexible hose connects to the base of the column on the side by the wall, the other end feeds under the floor and connects to the HW supply. I can access the supply end as I have taken...
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