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Hi all, in my latest night class we were covering pumped shower systems and in the lecture one of my colleagues asked the lecturer why it was against the water regs to be able to hook up a shower pump directly onto the mains (ie not have a cold cistern and HW cylinder) Lecturer came back...

Hi all, does anyone know where i can buy an atag boiler from? my friend is after one and we've searched on the internet but nobody seems to sell them. Tried PTS and plumb center but no luck thanks lorraine

Hi Everyone. Have tried searching but can't seem to find an answer to my rather specific problem. Last year I had a new boiler (Viessmann) and unvented tank(Santon Premier) fitted along with all the pipework and radiators which I plumbed myself :D Only problem is now (within the last...

Hi everyone As I have a bit of time off I am in the process of sorting out my central heating. The problem is I appear to have sludge (black iron stuff) in my radiators as they are heating up at the top but not the bottom. So i went and got some fernox central heating restorer, drained the...

Hi Everyone I have enrolled to do a plumbing course at my local technical college and as I work during the day, I was given the opportunity to do a city and guilds plumbing technical certificate 2 for two nights a week?!? does anyone know if that qualification is recognized or not? I had a...

Hi Everyone My rewiring is almost complete, I got down to the ground floor pulled up the floorboards to be greated by a severe case of woodworm - surveys are such a waste of time + money (and mine was structural!) anyway onto my question. As I am pretty much ripping out most of the stuff...

Hi everyone, As you may know me and my dad are currently in the process of rewiring my house (informed the council and handed over £90) and have done the following (attached with questions): 1. taken out the old fuse box, replaced with new consumer unit :D 2. split the upstairs and...

Hi everyone as you may know, me and my dad are rewiring my house and we have just had the consumer unit changed to a brand spanking new General Electric one (Are they any good? It was either a choice of that or Square D or something). Thanks to everyone for help with that. Seeing as there...

Hi everyone, as you may know. I am in the process of having my house rewired and after I posted, Ban all sheds kindly pointed me to a section on the oDPM website and after much wrangling with my LABC. They are coming round to certify mine and my dad's work! anyway I have a few questions...

Hi everyone, Please could you answer a quick question for me, is there a recommended height for wall sockets? I heard on tv that it has to be at least 18inches from the ground to assist disabled people but was unsure. thankyou. Lorraine

hi everyone, I am in the process of redoing my utility room and am contemplating replacing the carpet with laminate. i just have a couple of questions. 1. would it be okay to lay the laminate directly on to chipboard without an underlay? or is that absolutely neccessary? I just don't want...

hi, I am currently painting one of the rooms in my flat and want to get the radiator off the wall. So I went to b and q and watched the demo on how to get the radiator off. it looked fairly straightforward, shut both valves and then undo the nuts. only problem is i don't know how to shut...