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Reversed plumbing on Gainsborough bar shower - solution?
Hi peeps I have a thermostatic Gainsborough bar shower with the plumbing reversed. Is there a solution to this, rather than having to re-plumb the thing? Cheers, Larry.
 
Sealing edge of garage roof
I have a concrete garage with a roof made of box profile metal sheeting tha t slopes very gently down from the door end to the far end. At the top of t he slope is a gap as shown on these photos: It...
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Glass Cutting query
I have a flat sold workbench in the shed, I also have a 1 metre steel rule and stout gloves. 1. What's regarded as a good make of cutter, that's available on ebay? There is a local Homebase, but...
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IBC tanks
I am fed up with my normal tubs springing leaks around the connectors, I have three in series. So I am looking for a low cost IBC 1000 litres container. However I wish to place a submersible pump in...
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Fixing to Thermalite blocks
Anyone had any experience of fixing into rendered 'Fermalite' (as the builder called them) blocks? I'm guessing resin is the method?
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Solar Roof Panels
Just a thought - as the panels have a lot of metalwork and are presumably at earth potential what are the added lightning risks?. Will they "attract" lightning? If so, then should they have a heavy...
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isolator switch for built-in appliance
This gets discussed from time to time but it seems hard to get a proper sta tement of what is permitted according to current electrical regulations. Ca n someone advise please? I am fitting our new...
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OT : - insuring old houses.... (long)
[Default] On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:19:37 -0700 (PDT), a certain chimpanzee, Jim K , randomly hit the keyboard and wrote: The belly in the gable is common, and (as the surveyor's report bears out) is...
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LED PIR Floodlights
I'm sure this has been covered before but doesn't come to hand in a search: Can anyone recommend from personal experience a modestly priced LED PIR floodlight. I have many of the conventional 150 watt...
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Wind mended ?
I see that wind is now producing some 2.5GW after 3 weeks of producing less than a GW. They've obviously mended it, it must have been broken. What I want to know is what arrangements there are for a...
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Stainless Splashback...Perfect cleaner found!
Chip oil splattered up the back of the range on the splashback. "Someone" didn't bother to clean it off and it semi-solidified.... Brake cleaner, Mr Muscle, and other kitchen cleaner stuff just didn't...
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(probably a bit OT) Laser question
Being as a laser maintains its power in its beam. Does anyone know if a laser beam is infinite in how far the beam shines or is there a limit?
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Creaking waste pipe
I suspect this is expansion it sounds like an expansion noise that from zero accelerates as water runs out then deaccelerates as it cools, noise stops after a couple of minutes. Thats what I think it...
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Central heating - heating comes on even though only water on (according to controller)
Very strange. Got a heating controller that, basically, you set separate times from heating and water. At the moment, heating is off. But we still need hot water. Trouble is radiators still come on...
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Wells well again!
As mentioned last week my well pump packed up leaving me watering with expensive metered mains water. All is well again now, a the replacement pump arrived today and is now installed. I would like to...
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