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Evening all! I've recently bought a few nice (in my opinion!) cast iron radiators and would like to plumb them in using preferably a large fitting and large pipe feeding 28mm or 22 at bare minimum. Ive attached a photo of the fitting which appears to be 1.25" but finding a suitable valve and...

Hi Guys, I'm wondering if anyone can help, I'd love to find a solution for this problem. We've just had a new bathroom and airing cuboard fitted with a Worchester 30si combi. The bathroom doesnt have any windows and the extractor fan isn't doing enough to stop the bathroom staying very...

I'm re tiling our kitchen floor at the moment and need to remove the old adhesive, at present I'm using a wide chisel and it's taking bloody ages! Is there a quicker way or maybe a solution that will soften the original stuff? TIA :D

What is the best way to go about re fixing plasterboard that has become loose? Literally every piece in my hallway up the side of my stairs has become loose since I pulled the handrail off to fit a new one. I was thinking maybe drilling holes at intervals and filling with expanding foam...any...

Hi, just after a few ideas before I call out the dreaded plumber or if it is something that I can change myself? My boiler seems to have done this now and then since installation but very infrequently now it is doing it almost if not every time there is a demand for hot water. When you...

I understand relays..and their uses...I'm hoping you can help me with this so bear with me. I'm looking to turn a water boiler on when the lights in my garage come on, basically so its not left on overnight. The lights are always switched off when I leave and on when I enter despite the...

Hi, I've managed to lay my hands on a Zip aquapoint II water heater that I want to install in my garage under the sink, the installation notes I have come across mention various valves.....The installation that it was in previously had nothing apart from a service valve. I'm tempted to bang...

Hiya guys, hoping someone can help me, I'm relocating a floodlight on the side of my house, it is activated by a seperate PIR. I'm tempted to when I relocate the light add another at the adjacent end of the building. I'm unsure what wattage I can total with the PIR and my lighting circuit (my...

The maze behind the kitchen unit (wanted to hide as much as possible) I've not done a lot with copper before, the first stuff I did was with those Yorkshire fittings, I didn't get on with them and ended up draining the system down and adding solder, nightmare. :lol: At the notches in the...

Hiya peeps, my house in the last 5 years has slowly been getting worse, always above the doors and windows and in some places presumbably on joints between boards, I've managed to patch it up in places but i'd really like to get to the bottom of why this is happening and a way of fixing it...

i'm cuurently staying in a large house in France with some family (12 of us!) My partner the other day said she got a shock off the washing machine, I ignorantly put it down to static, but when I came to use the same device today I got one hell of a belt. My arm is still tingling now and this...

I'm trying to find an new one of these without hacking the new pipework about again :evil: Doesn't need to have a drain off, this one pictured has a slight crack on the drain off cap :( Only noticed after id modified all the pipework feeding the radiator when I fitted a new radiator in the...

I'm fitting some new rads in the house today and have had the boiler off just to be sure...sadly the job has taken slightly longer due to me running out of copper fittings. cold house tonight then! Is the boiler ok to be turned back on aslong as the room stat is left in the off...

:lol: Now that I have your attention! Can I solder chromed copper pipe as normal? I've just soldered this as a test run so to speak but i'm unsure if the joint would be any good, its in the central heating system. Also another question....i'm running a pipe between my lounge and...

After doing a head gasket on a nasty meganne scenic I've been given I have been having trouble starting it, the deisel pump etc had been removed. I tried starting it and was just cranking so I looked up on autodata and notcied a fuel cut switch which I pressed...now i'm thinking I may have de...

Would this be possible on this type of circuit...basically I wan't to replace a water heater that has been installed by plugging into a 13a socket that has blown up (after about 20 years by the looks of it!) My calculations @ 240v...would be looking at ~12.5 amps, is this ok to use a 13 amp...

Or anything else I could use? Any Ideas would be appreciated!

Can anyone recomend a fixing to use when I install my kitchen in a few weeks, my main concern is the fixings as one of the walls is plasterboard then thermalite blocks and the other is just plasterboard stud wall. Any ideas....especially if pics of the fixing is available would be massivly...

Hiya, Wanting to move the light from the center of the room and make two ceiling roses either side of the center of the original. Will i have to remove the boards upstairs or will i be able to push the cable through the space between the joists (I know every house is different!) And what is...

Hi all, just finishing my video projector project, I had to make a few holes in the wall to feed the 2.5mm t&e cable down to a fcu..the thing is where I have filled the voids and all other filling I have done (over old removed picture hooks etc) when you paint over it's always very obvious as...