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I think it was some Canadian chap , viva le Frances marketing massive

I hope it’s not eroding the support under your foundation.

thats not what he wants to hear!

Lalalala I’m not listening…

It would be nice, but the drains run in that area, as does the electric. Sod’s Law and all that.

Having slept on it last night, well I didn’t get much sleep for worrying. The plan is have another little dig around tomorrow morning just to see if I can find the pipe. This is to check if it does indeed go under the floor. If I can’t find it or if it does enter the house, even if the leak is outside, I’m going to just relay it all. I’ve had enough already and even if I do find the leak I know I’ll just worry it’s going to happen again. The plan is get a big arse roll of blue poly pipe and some fittings, run it on the surface to the back of the house, cut out the under sink cupboard back, drill a hole through the wall next to the internal stopcock and connect it all up. That way I’m not worried about what damage the water could be causing. It’s not like it’s winter and there could be a cold snap and it could freeze at anytime is it ;) Then dig the trench and bury the new service and fit the Insuduct and a new under sink cupboard back. Cue pictures of mud, holes, water, drills, dust, mayhem, blood (it’s not finished if you haven’t cut yourself) and tears. But fuck ripping up our kitchen floor etc.

At my old flat (one of 14) we had the pavement outside dug up multiple times as Thames water insisted there was a leak around the various jumble of stop cocks and meters. They kept hearing a leak and then insisted it was on our side and if it wasn’t fixed they would fix it by removing the concrete steps down to the property and bill us, except for some reason they were going to bill me for the whole amount???
Nothing happened until a sink hole appeared in the road the size of a Mini (old not new).
The new water main had been leaking and washed away the road foundation the resulting hole was 6 foot deep, they filled it with concrete and I never did get a bill.

Who knows, you could end up with a beautiful cenote.

then I'd say you ought to lay a 32mm pipe if your going down that route.

Good call, that’s what comes out of the meter box and the internal pipe to the heating is 3/4 copper so it makes sense.

WD40 has changed, it's a seized Yale bolt lock, how the hell do i know which one I want

Just the standard one.

its what I went with, in a very uneconomical 100ml size,. just seemed to have got very specialised - like I'm going to stand and read the side of all five cans

I'm pretty sure there will eventually bea court case like the neurofen one for the various period pain and different pain type packets but they're all the same.

The WD40 company now sells a load of other products under the WD40 brand. They're not meant to be special versions of WD40.

like I'm going to stand and read the side of all five cans

Silver bottom = a specific application. E.g. Electrical contact cleaner or whatever

All blue = regular WD 40

The smart nosil thing is great.

smarty nosil thing is great

I was totally sold on this, but only want it for one job, so it felt over tooled

Today I moved a socket in my kids room which is part of a ring (two lives and two neutrals). Was an old single socket attached to the skirting board so low it could hardly be used.

Swapped it for a double socket and moved it over about a foot. I plugged in a socket tester before and it showed two greens, cool.

Put the new plug on, it’s showing an error as LN Reverse.

Only one set of L/Ns have an earth (old house!) and the other set has an earth (new ring?)

I’ve checked the other sockets on that ring and they all have the same LN Reverse error.

What could cause this as it was fine before I tried to do something helpful 🤦

The only thing that fits what you say is the whole circuit has the wires reversed at source but the socket you first tested had them reversed again and therefore showed two green lights.

Only one set of L/Ns have an earth (old house!)

There has never been a time period where the UK has had three pin plugs but not earth wires everywhere. What you have is dangerous fucked up wiring.

Thanks, yeah I assumed it may have been reversed at source also. I reversed them in the socket and it did nothing. Looking at the other sockets on that ring they are all wired correctly.

Part of the house still uses steel conduit for the live/neutral so earth is provided by the steel conduit for earthing to the sockets.

It’s not good I know, and we’re going to replace when we can. But I’m not sure it’s dangerous per se as it is earthed.

But I’m not sure it’s dangerous per se as it is earthed.

It might be, assumes the conduit is continuous. To really know you would need to test it with more than the 3 light testers.

On the other hand almost everything is double insulated...

I’ve asked the electrician to come out next week. We have another job well beyond my capabilities so I’ll get him to look at it at the same time.

About 20% of the house still uses conduits for sockets. I think I’m going to get a price for rewiring them as I need to change the position of some downstairs sockets that are setup the same.

Nearly all downstairs lighting also uses the same conduit But I think I need to save that for next year #nomoney

#operationleakgate
Update;
Finding the leak and or pipework has been aborted.
So far I’ve found the old electrical supply, the new electrical supply and water coming from everywhere now. I think I’m close, but I’m 99% sure it’s under the slab. So relaying the whole supply is a go…

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I was wondering this morning if there was a temporary bypass pipe in
(If you're lucky enough to have a sink that can go unused that would have a waist pipe going through the wall to feed the bypass through that)

I've got what I think is a stick valve on a towel rail. One turns 2½ times, the other only about ⅔.

Can I replace the brass bit or do I need to replace the whole thing?

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