Recent content by stevejoyce

Hi - is it difficult to install a shower tray with a shower mixer ? I am thinking of having one installed after browsing through catalogues this weekend... Are the trays screwed to a wall on one side and are the florboards needing to be cut rhgough to run the wate pipe? About the shower...

thanks for you help everybody. i suppose a sparky can self certificate/sign-off the work without the need to contact the LABC and therefore no waiting around time. will have to think about this now tonight.

LABC ? : local authority building control?? sound like it couls be a long process......

so i wouldn't need to do anything to the conumser unit, except for isloating the power to the spur (s) whilst altering them. i'll have to think about this and the best way to do it. notifieable? do you mean i'd ned to write to them before i start the work? one last question: why a...

pump would be in bathroom - next to hot water cylinder, so close to spur. hmm, not sure, didn't think about a RCD. do you mean take a spur off the wiring centre and rate it at 13amp? why 13amp though, the shower pump only requires 3amp?

Is it possible to spur off a spur to install a shower pump (3amp) What I mean exactly is: the wiring centre for my Central Heating controls are in my bathroom, in the airing cupboard. Is it possible, to take a spur off the L, N and Earth from it, into a fused connection unit which I could...

thanks mate - i do as you say and just try and change the nut/valve from inside the cistern if it will let me!! otherwise, i will get a new pack of fibre washers (1/2" size correct i believe)? could i even go for a equilibrium type ballvalve valve for a quieter operation? or do these not...

ballvalve in attic is dripping and annoying, so i am going to change it tomorrow - get a replacement from wickes. one q-are the threads standard size? i mean the thread which joins to the tap connector from the rising main-if not, is altering pipework necessary?

why a shock?! the part p course is a few weeks isn't it - it can't be a whol electric course surely?!

thanks for all your help. i will get a book and try and enrol on a college eveing course, hopefully some will start in the new year!! i have heard of part p also, but thought part p was for plumbers, etc who wanted to be able to wire up a boiler legally, etc?? i didn't think p was a full...

ok fair enough - this will be tricky though as you cannot spur off a spur so a new cable will need to be run from the back of a ring main socket :( gonna be a big job :cry:

ok thanks i will, i'll ring round / search the web for some colleges. hmm i am guessing the course can go on for like 3 years in total? (3 certificates ??) if you say after the 1st year is successfully completed, i could apply for a job as a mate? even with low wages it would be better...

ok mate, thanks for helping.

Thank you for all your help and info. I would like to work for someone possibly in a year or so if I can take a year long course possibly that will qualify me to work with / for someone as like a mate? or even to work alone in the future after experience. are any of the courses 1 year...

thanks for the link. i will print it out and read it carefully this evening when i can relax more! if the pump only uses 3 amps (don't know why i thought it needed a thick cable from the CU)! - could it be possibly to spur off the CH wiring centre box live neutral and earth and replace...