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Hi all I have terrible damp and fungus growth under the wood floor on the ground floor of our typical victorian terraced house. We had a new patio door put in and this has removed the air bricks. Only now do we realise the error of this. So before I go about replacing all the joists and boards...

I’m making preparations for burying an electric vehicle charger cable to be installed by British Gas. I’m digging the hole 450mm deep and have been told to put 150mm of sand covering the ducting. I’m preparing it as per BG instructions and taking photos. my question is what type of sand to...

I’m making preparations for burying an electric vehicle charger cable to be installed by British Gas. I’m digging the hole 450mm deep and have been told to put 150mm of sand covering the ducting. I’m preparing it as per BG instructions and taking photos. my question is what type of sand to...

I am running a cold water feed to my shed, about 10m from the house. The house already has a cold water tap on the outside, and I intend to plumb into it (keeping the tap for garden work) but having a permanent feed to the shed. I am digging a trench to the required depth (~750mm) but within...

Hi, If anyone is an installer of motoroised gates, or had them installed in a residential setting, could you give me advice? I am getting it all professionally installed, but have a few local companies and each is trying to sell me their kit, so any advice is useful to me right now. We have...

Anyone got any ideas how to locate buried 2way solenoid valves (hunter)?! I have bought a house with an irrigation system. The operate via a 2 way solenoid valve. they were a bit hit and miss in operation. I have got some working by replacing valves, cleaning valves or just bleeding them. I...

Hi, I have a built up of drainage smell in the basement where we us to have are old toilet drainage before, basically the old drainage is no longer in use and still has water standing, its under the bay window in the basement. I can access it by removing a few bricks from inside the basement as...

Hi all, first post here and have tried to find some answers for my question but no joy. Moved into a house and needs some upgrading, including the boiler/radiators. Ideally I wanted a combi installed in the toilet downstairs to free space in the bathroom (our current system takes up about 1m sq...

I very important customer of mine, the landlord of my local boozer, complained of a continuous noise coming from the pipework of the pub, even when he turns off the mains stopcock. It stopped when I turned off the supply at the water meter, so I determined there is a leak underground between the...

Hello, I’m having an extension built on my house and whilst the footings are exposed would like to run utilities to the detached garage 2m away in case of a future garage conversion. I’ll leave them unconnected at both ends so essentially empty pipes and cables running underground from under...

The original cracked/leaking clay drainage of the house has been disconnected and partially removed, with an inspection chamber installed as described in this thread (thank you to those who so kindly offered advise) We have temporary drainage set up & need to figure out the next step. This is...

Need to connect into downpipe from the gutter, normally not an issue but... Have a clay underground drainage pipe that extends only 5 cm from the side of my garage. That includes the lip, also there are some minor cracks extending about 8 cm into the pipe body. Have tested the pipe by...

Hello What size armoured cable will I need to run about 150m and what would the maximum load it could take be. I will be using an electrician but I am just looking at the options and pricing the work up. Thanks Barnman