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Update - Help Required Urgently. Insurance say they are not covered for the tank replacement. It now seems likely that they will need an emergency fix as they have two young children in the house. That and the fact that we are supposed to be going to them for Christmas Day. They live near...

Can I thank you for all the helpful comments. The house is just out of the 10 Year NHBC guarantee period and they only recently managed to get the builders to get all the showers working correctly. The emergency plumber sent out managed to get cold water restored and they now await the...

Emergency plumber due later tonight. I was wondering what may have caused it.

Hi - My Brother In Law has had a tank burst. What could cause this please and could recent work to fix showers have any bearing on it? Having to advise him from a distance. [/img]

I would assume this should be a mortar rather than cement but await replies with interest as I have a similar problem.

Hi Just bought some lamps for outside of house. Problem - I want to wire them by looping from one to the other but the space in base of lamp is not really sufficient to allow it. Is there any supplier of bases similar to those for Conduit that I could use - the diameter needed is 4 3/4...

Just a line to say thank you to Danny for the help supplied when I was in need of advice. Ta

Thanks Chris but which would you recommend?

Hi I am about to change a number of radiator valves to TRV's. I wish to know the most reliable make to use? I have read all of the arguments on another board where some argue for the cheapest that B&Q do etc but it simply confused me even more - as if that were possible :( I have searched...

Thanks Kev

I appreciate what you say but my local central heating (CORGI registered) 'engineer' will not touch the electrical side of boilers - Catch 22 methinks if you take things to the extreme. I am an experienced electrical engineer and able to replace a timer if I coud only establish how to gain...

Hi - Can anyone help please I need to change the time switch as it loses anything between 10 and 30 minutes in a 12 hour period (seems to depend upon how the tappets are set). My friendly C/H engineer was asked to change this way back in May but claims he did not as it was working OK. Maybe...

Help I used Unibond tile adhesive (orapid set?) and it says that you can grout after just 3 hours. OK I thought but the grout - good old Unibond again - says I have to wait 24 hours :? Any one know which? Ta

I need to remove a Speedfit connector from a copper pipe so that I can a) fit a washing machine tap and b) run the pipe properly around a bend (it currently cuts across the corner). Question is how do I remove the Speedfit as cutting the copper pipe is not possible due to the location? Ta

Hi not all that much help but when the [was] Rover engineering centre was built at Gaydon they wanted polished natura stone walls fro the 'Street' (an indoor viewing/boulevard area) but could not afford it. The project engineer in charge discovered a firm that could polish the surface to an...

Late fities early sixties I was training and worked on both Rubber Sheathed (TRS) and PVC. Remember one guy (no nationality no pack drill) who asked us to downrate some of the 15 A sockets as he did not want to waste electricity :roll: Wasn't the multi strand PVC stuff a pig to get to lie...

Hi - Our kitchen has sets of low voltage lights set into the ceiling. Problem is that one bank of 4 have started to switch off then come back on again after about 20 minutes. Any clues please or should I ditch them and replace with mains voltage lamps?

Playing safe the stuff I have is 130 x 50 mm. Again many thanks for your help.

Many thanks for that much aprreciated. Now just got to clear enough junk to get access to the walls. Have a good weekend.

Thanks for that advice but what is best way to fix wall plates to the brick walls either side? The height above the platform will be adequate for what we want it for (about 6'-00" or so)