ProDave

Earth leakage faults are funny things, particularly if they create a path between neutral and earth. The imbalance is not enough to trip the RCD until you draw a substantial current, which is why turning on a different circuit may have been the one that caused the RCD to trip, but not the circuit that actually has the fault.

Our kitchen / diner is 7M by 5M. I would divide that 10M by 10M space in 2, for a kitchen diner and separate lounge. We lived in the house as we built it and first to be finished was that kitchen diner which we briefly used as a living room. I HATED a living room with the noise of the fridge starting and running from time to time, and noise of the dishwasher disturbed the peace. I was glad to get our separate living room completed.

In our case (Scotland) it was 5 metres from a boundary or 10 metres from a road or watercourse. The watercourse one was bonkers, in the case of a treatment plant where the output was clean enough to go directly into the watercourse. So that is exactly what happened. Instead of being allowed to build a soakaway right up to the burn, no that was not allowed, but we were allowed to discharge into the burn instead.

ALWAYS look at the recent alterations first. That is always one of my questions "have you had ANY work done recently" It's a shame not everyone answers that properly, it could save them a lot of time.

This highlights the importance of sealing every single penetration through the air tight envelope of the building as you make them. So much easier to fix then than near the end.

Could very well be condensation. Give us some context, type and age of house etc. Switches and sockets on outside walls of cold uninsulated brick or stone walls can be prone to condensation in very cold weather.

Firstly, read any of the reviews, that sort of shower screen and seal are absolutely rubbish. You need to establish if the leak is actually water passing under the seal, OR water passing under the chrome bit between the hinge point and the wall. Effective but naff looking solution, a shower curtain on the inside, it need not be a full size one, perhaps a cut down one to just cover that corner section to keep that dry, so not too clingy in use?

Why not a planning application to replace the old garage with a new one? That would put it beyond doubt.

There are two completely separate issues, you need to separate them. 1) does the system used need a drainage field to provide secondary treatment? I would not personally install such a system now. 2) whatever system you install it produces water. that has to go somewhere. Assuming it is a treatment plant that has no requirement for secondary treatment, then that could go to any of the different forms of land drainage, or it could go to a watercourse. Local bodies like the Environment Agency or SEPA in Scotland often need to licence a discharge to a watercourse.

Can you get a certificate of lawful development for the existing garage and use that to then rebuild it with one the same size?

So an article about a landscaping earth bank, without so much as a single picture of the offending earth bank? Qwality journalism. Sorry to hear of Sarah's Cancer. Hope the treatment works.

WHY on such a large site have your permitted development rights been removed? I would be appealing that so you are once more free to build PD buildings. It depends what you want to do with the space, my favourite if just storage is a static caravan.

And now I have a new riddle to solve "SMS messages from certain senders not being received via wifi calling" This is SWMBO's phone. she is with O2. The basic problem that triggered this chain of events was the O2 signal at our house disappearing in early December never to return in spite of them saying the fault is fixed. So now we are both 100% reliant on wifi calling for anything to work at home. Today SWMBO was trying to get a verification code by SMS to log onto a service. It did not arrive. she then went out, when she got to town, the messages had queued up and she received them. That's strange and while we were discussing it, she received an SMS from someone else. So it can receive them via wifi. So why did she not receive the others. So i sent her an SMS. No that one did not arrive. She sent me one, and it did. So it would appear on her phone when at home and connected via wifi calling she can only receive SMS messages from some people not everyone. Anyone care to work that one out?

Too busy pondering the elephant in the room.

Take the frame apart and glue the bottom member to the floor with your chosen adhesive.

Just be carefull that looks like it has potential to remove a finger if you don't treat it with respect.

Perhaps Ian could describe what he wants to cut and where?

We have the very cheapest wooden 2G velux windows. No condensation on the frames at all not even in the en-suite after a shower and at our colder outside temperatures. We do get some condensation around the edge of the glass, so I regret not choosing 3G glass, but on the other hand this thread suggests I would still get condensation there?

Yes you need someone with a flue gas analyser to set up the burner. Money well spent.

In what context are they saying it is "notifiable work"? In England and Wales the wiring comes under Part P, so at least some of the electrical work will have to be done and notified by a suitably qualified electrician. And at least part of connecting an unvented hot water cylinder will need to be signed off by G3 plumber. Other than that you can do the lot your self. As I am an electrician I did it all apart from the very final water connection, testing and sign off of the UVC by a suitably qualified plumber.

Making progress on this. Initially the rebuilt PSU did not power up, and the TIP32 got very hot. So left it for a while. I had a another look today and found another short circuit SMD diode, a power device this time. Rather than look it up and order one, I surface mounted an ordinary axial diode. Now we are at least partly in business. The PSU powers up, it appears to have 2 outputs, one that stabilises at 5.3V and the other at 21V. That would tie with a logic supply and the 21V is for driving the dozen or so 24V coil relays. On power on the backlight to the little LCD display come on, the lights behind the pushbuttons flash once on power up, as do 3 LED's on the main board, but no text on the display and no apparent reaction to pressing any of the buttons. I guess the next thing is go and try it back in it's box and see if there are more signs of life with everything connected.

No our bathrooms are never "damp" and the towels stored on the shelves in them are dry when you pick them up. As others say, the constant air changing with the MVHR results in a very nice internal atmosphere the air is always fresh and dry, but not too dry. A properly insulated house with mvhr, just forget all notions of "damp" you had from old houses.

I am reminded of the old Tithe Barn in the village I used to live. A large 600 yer old structure that while superficially okay, was leaning, the roof was warped and leaking and a lot of rotten timber. It was sold for something in the region of £200K to the Astom Martin Owners club who stripped it bare rebuilt the frame, re roofed and re clad it all under the watch of English Heritage as listed building. The restoration cost many times the purchase price. Look at the building in this link, not the cars https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x4876955c67ed843f:0x89ea14e1091ccede!3m1!7e115!4shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPl32oFKQj4QtfNm0nxNi0YyIZFVbOCbEBtAhKW%3Dw242-h160-k-no!5sAMOC+barn+drayton+st+leonard+restoration+-+Google+Search!15zQ2dJZ0FRPT0&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPl32oFKQj4QtfNm0nxNi0YyIZFVbOCbEBtAhKW&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFnOD-wMr8AhVsSUEAHaNaDuIQ7ZgBegQIFxAC I know yours is probably a different scale, but money pit is still what springs to mind.

Unless you have deep pockets, this is one to look at, not buy.

Nothing is zero maintenance. No 1 is grass and buy a lawnmower. Anything else is buy a backpack sprayer and some Gallup XL (Glyphosate)