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Where would you drain the water in the ACO?

I get what you saying. It's more of an aesthetic thing as well as reducing the number of tripping hazards for my young children. Any advice on how I can drain the water from the ACO to the gulley that potentially hides most of the pipe work?

To make sure water won't penetrate the dpc I was going to use bitumen adhesive strip on the red brick behind the ACO, slightly overlapping the dpc. Any thoughts?

Hi all, I'm looking into replacing this patio for a new patio that fits just below the door sill (raised by 150mm from current height) so there's little to no step from inside to outside. This would mean that the new patio would be at dpc level. Could I use ACO dainage to overcome this...

Ok. Yes good idea. Thank you for your help

Ok thanks. How do I find out if live and earth are touching without cutting the wire?

Yes, evrything else in the house works even the upstairs sockets (apart from one at the bottom of the attic ladder). I presume this is on the same circuit as all the lights

I was standing close to it but not directly above. You're right, the only way to find out is to a temporary repair to see if this cable is the problem. There is no tear to be seen on the cable, not on the outside anyway. It may be damaged inside? Ideally I would like to isolate this part of the...

I was up in the attic walking around at the time. The light had been on for a good 15 minutes. I wasn't anywhere near any switches or cables. Only the ones under the flooring

Ah I see now what you mean about maintenance free. There is no outside light, hasn't been since I moved in around 7 years ago. At the time it first tripped there was an extension lead and a lamp plugged into the socket. The socket is on the wall at the bottom of the attic ladder. I have...

What do you both mean by maintenance free?

I don't know for sure that its the trapped cable however, this seems the most likely as I've recently installed a section of flooring on top of this cable. I was very careful and no screws were anywhere near any of the cables. I've been walking a bit on this section of flooring today too. From...

Good evening, The upstairs lights have tripped a not coming back on. I was in the attic at the time and thought it may be caused by a pinched cable under floor. I have raised a section of the floor (the one recently installed) and saw that there was a pinched wire (you may be able to see from...

Hello, I'm looking for advice on how to remove ceramic tiles off a bathroom wall without taking up chunks of plasterboard? So far I've started by chiseling under the tile and trying to lever it off. The problem is that whilst levering the chisel it sinks into the plaster board creating a...

Thanks, that explains why all the taps still work. Judging by the height of where the pipe in the conservatory goes into the bedroom I now think the pipes leading to the outside tap is under the raised chipboards floor in the bedroom. A strange place to put a stop tap though??

Hi all, Still no obvious sign of a stop tap so I've started opening some boxed in pipes to try to find a stop tap for the outside tap. I have found a pipe that was boxed up with a stop tap that's fairly close to the outside tap that goes upstairs. The stop tap was in an open position. I've...

That makes sense. Thanks for your help

Thanks. I wonder what's the reason for turning it off in the first place was . I will keep searching for the elusive stop tap/valve. Thanks

It has not worked since I've moved in. The pipe goes into the wall directly behind the tap and cannot be seen from the inside so not easy to follow without possibly taking off plaster boards on the inside. It there some sort of gadget that can detect pipes behind a wall??

Hello, Looking for some advise before I start cutting into walls or lifting floors. I have an outside water tap (on the external wall of a lower floor bedroom) that doesn't work, took the tap off and still not a drop of water. There is no visible stop tap/valve anywhere near. Is there any...