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FLAT Capping for meter tails chased into a breeze block wall.
I am chasing a channel in a breeze block wall to take 25mm meter tails and 16mm earth and then capping this over with 150mm wide 3mm thick 2m length of steel for mechanical protection. The whole lot...
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Garage socket & pattress question and 17th Edition wiring regs
Hi, I am putting in a new 32A ring main that will just be for garage internal sockets and external outside sockets. This is on a RCBO. Reason for this if anything happens outside, it does not affect...
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House insurance and burglar alarms
Hope someone can help..... We have a Friedland SA5 6 zone wireless alarm system that I installed approx five years ago, and have maintained since. This unit is very similar to Yale wireless alarms so...
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TOT Insurance
I phoned up to get some motor insurance and got the scripted hard sell for additional cover. Approx 10 seconds of conversation: sales rep : "We can offer the extra benefits for £29". me: "No thank...
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Balancing heating system including U/F heating
I've been fiddling with a number of rads in our badly piped-up house over t he last few weeks to encourage some unenthusiastic radiators to start heati ng up. I've not got a thermometer to balance...
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Acrylic mirror material ...
In message , Arfa Daily writes Expect it to scratch badly in use.
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Vitodens 200
Noticed a small leak from my Vitodens 200 system boiler today. It's coming from what appears to be a thermocouple (its a brass cylinder with a thin copper tube going to the PCB) in the water return....
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Not a leg to stand on
You can DIY the rest
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OT History of the world in two minutes.
Excellent.
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speaking of carpets...
..my stair carpet has disintegrated in 10 years, which is probably my fault for actually selecting a not especially hard wearing one, and having cats and dogs and it being the stair case that is in...
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OT - 'big' washing machines
It'd suit me to have a washing machine that would take more than a nominal 5kg. I'm looking in the range of 8 - 12kg, using JL's site for research, but would like to know a couple of things. How does...
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OT - of interest to senior members
In message , Another Dave writes It made it the same for men as women, which was one of the drivers behind raising the pension age for women.
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GU10 oddity
I have a GU10 4-light fitting in the kitchen, fitted in August last year. Since then I have gone through 6 replacement bulbs, all but one have been in the same position in the fitting. Coincidence or...
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Ordinary radiator- move water inlet to top tapping?
Ive got a large, heavy & expensive but otherwise ordinary radiator to which I want to fit a Honeywell "Rondostat" digital TRV. Sadly it has an LED display that can't be read with the 'stat in the...
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Picking an underlay
I'm Having a carpet fitted by carpetright (who curiously couldn't be beaten on price by all the local independants I tried). Anyway, opted to sort out my own underlay, as I know they massively markup...
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