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Ok, new kitchen has arrived but in her infinite wisdom the other half wanted to get a sink from elsewhere as she didn’t like the ones they sold. She found one she liked which is a sink and drainer total 750 in width, sink is 550 including tap holes to side. The rest is draining board. Now I’ve...

Ok. So a few weeks ago my wife got a shock off what she thought was the metal kettle we use plugged into the outlet which is also the cooker switch (a twin unit). She binned the kettle as thought it was faulty and plugged the new kettle into another outlet in the kitchen. This is now the same...

ok. i have an old servowarm elite 50 and the the pump seems to cut out occasionally causing the water to kettle and then this cuts off the gas through the high temp cut out.. (i'm guessing here from advice i have been given elsewhere). Anyway i called an engineer out who said the system is...

Is it normal for the cable that comes from the mains (SWEB) block to the meter to be hot. I've not touched anything in there in ages but i noticed this eve that theire was a "hot" smell. I touched all the cables from the dist board.. all ok. then worked my way back to the meter.. fine. but as i...

Ok.. maybe not the correct place to post, but as i post here regularily it may be a start. (after all we are all friends............) My fiancee and I are off to hawaii :D :D for our honeymoon and our daughter is going to gran canaria with her grandparents for two weeks... now she is 2 and...

ok, clarkson can be a bit full of himself and hammond is just a big kid. but the first of the new series had me crying with laughter for longer than i can remember.. clarkson actually looked like he shat himself when he lost it in the koeng and as for the monkeys ... lol pmsl

on the way home from work i was driving down a single carriageway road, quite windy and i noticed the car in front was a bit all over the show and crossing the central line on the bends. Initially i thought the driver might be a bit worse for wear. I looked at the car closely and saw it was a...

ok. I weigh 13st exactly and eat x amouint of calories.. I have not gained or lost weight in the last 2 years. It therfore figures that the amount of calories i injest is close to the amount of calories i burn. However if i now go for a 20 minute run 3 times a week but dont change my diet...

any ideas folks.. (dont suggest a deleorian or a time turner.. or any other time thing) Ive been advised by my doc to exercise to bring my blood preesure down. problem is i dont have much time. i get up at 6:30 and drive to work almost immediately. i get 30mins lunch break. i leave work...

//www.diynot.com/shop/RADIATOR_REFLECTOR_FOIL_5M_X_5M/6354 is this stuff actually worth ethe hassle of removing the rad to fit? just noticed some of the rooms in the house are cold even with the rads on full.. anything to help! :p :shock: :P

ok. stupid yeah. out of control yeah. fine £200 and 6 points .. hmm not enough.. but then you learn...... THAT SHE WAS DISQUALIFIED DRIVER AND WAS CAUGHT LAST WEEK FOR DRINK DRIVING!!!!! talk about a danger to our roads. this woman should have been locked up and obviously has no common...

I have an old servowarm elite boiler, nothing wrong with it, seems to give reasonable bills.. is it possible to change the electonic timer for a different one?.. they seem to be preety generic. i have a (on, off, all day, twice) option one, and would like to get one with more options, ie three...

i have a crawl space beneath my house which is well ventilated. Most of the downstairs heating pipes run throught this space, just beneath the floorboards. (in a mix of copper and polypipe) Is it well worth the saving to insulate the pipes?. bear in mind it will take me best part of a day in...

whats the closeset i can run a 2.5mm cable to a heating pipe? thinking of using same notch or must it be a specific distance awya.. thinking heat resistant cable and voltage drops when warmed. (so many questions today) :p :P

was thinking about this last night. Is the problem overloading the section of spur closest to the ring? If you connect a spur off a spur the max load from the furthest socket is 13A, therefore the max load off the first bit of spur is therefore 26A. If you connect the spur using 4mm cable...

I'm planning to add another two sockets to the ring upstairs. I've checked back to the Cu and found a 16A circuit to the kitchen (ring), and 2 32A protected circuits (ring again), one to upstairs and one to downstairs. Now my question is this.. The 16A uses 2.5mm cable and the other two (the...

ok i see the point....but not really an option... http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13504491,00.html its the.... pmsl.. actually more like half a guinea (pig) in old money.. :D :D :D :shock:

We are about to get fitted wardrobes in our bedroom, but when moving a chest of drawers away from the wall I found the wall very damp at skirting level.(first floor) Now i'm assuming its condensation due to lack of air flow behind the unit. esp as its a cold North facing external wall Now...

Ok, someone correct me if i'm wrong but i need to fit a small heater (60w) (yes sixty) :shock: inside a built in cupboard to air air circulation. This is the way i assume you would do it: Disconnect the supply. Remove one cable from a nearby double socket. Reconnect this cable to a 20A...

I'm trying to source some low power tubular type heaters for installing in the back of some damp alcoves. I've seen them around but cant find them now. Low wattage. (like 18w or something) that can be left on permanently to get air circulating in the built in cupboard and stop it getting damp...