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I've got a broken clay sewage pipe. The down-pipe carries waste from the upstairs bathroom. Please can anybody advise the best way to fix this? I'm amusing I cant just replace the clay elbow with a plastic elbow because I'd need some kind of joiner to connect clay to plastic? Please help.

External to the wall. I just want to make it easier to replace the shower if it breaks in say 5 years time. My dads shower broke last year and he wanted the exact same shower again in case the water pipe didn't line up. Otherwise he would have had to carefully remove the wall tile to adjust...

Is it ok to connect an electric shower to the water supply using a 300mm flexi pipe?

It seems the general rule of thumb is to measure the opening from brickwork to brickwork in three places, use the smallest measurement and deduct 10mm to allow for the frames 5mm tolerances and for squaring up with a level. However, what if the walls are rendered? Should the window be...

I've got a single skin store room at the back of the house 4.4m x 2.2m and the room is accessed through a door in the kitchen. There is a toilet and a sink in the store room already and I'm planning to install a shower. The rest of the house has cavity walls. The room gets cold in the winter...

All the ceiling roses in my house only have one wire going to them. At first I just assumed that the loop ran through the switches. However, I checked a few switches and they only have one wire going to them as well. I traced the wires underneath the floorboards and discovered the roses and...

Sorry I meant IEE regulations. It was just something that was mentioned here: //www.diynot.com/pages/el/el014.php

I need to add some more lights. I don't have access to any of the existing ceiling roses but I've found a junction box with a spare terminal available. This isn't enough so is it safe to add a second junction box? I understand that its common practice to get a feed from an existing celing...

I do have very easy access to the ceiling rose in the spare bedroom because I'm currently building a partion and putting up a false ceiling. Anyway, so your saying I could get my live from the Hall switch and my neutral from the bedroom? and this new light will be activated from the switch in...

no of course people don't use a relay in domestic lighting. If I had access to an attic, I would never dream of using a relay in a million years. Its a bit of a bodge job plus the relay wouldn't last much more than a year or two anyway. When the lights are off, power would be going to the relay...

yeah but the light DID work because I tried it. It was just reverse.

I want to add an extra light to my hall but I dont have an attic so I cant get power from one of the other celing roses. I tried wiring a light to the 2-way light switch to see if it would power the light. The light worked however, the light was on when the others were off. When I switched...