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Hi All, Long time since I posted on here. Its good to be back. Does anybody know whether you are allowed to get out of a cherry picker, onto a roof for instance. The building we are working on has fixed ladders up to the roof but we aren't allowed to use these as they could be unsafe...

Morning all, For the last couple of days we have suddenly developed a noise like the sound of a toilet cistern filling up. It is constant 24 hours a day. However, there are no cisterns filling and no overflows overflowing. if I touch the water pipes in the downstairs loo, it feels like a...

Hi All, I have to work a one-off night next thursday night after having worked monday to thursday during the day. Obviously the thursday will be a very long day. My question is how would you want to be paid for it. The nights work may be 5-7 hours. Starting at 11pm. Thanks

Hi All, I need to put up an aluminium mobile scaffold tower. I am pasma trained but cant remember how high it needs to be before you use the stabaliser legs. My company has ordered the scaffold for the job and I'm not sure what height it will be. Is it a case of a minimum platform and...

Hi All, We live on a main road and get quite a bit of traffic noise. At the moment we have timber windows with double glazing. In my wisdom I was wondering if triple glazed units would make much difference and if so what sort of thickness they would be. As I would in theory like to swap...

Hi Everyone. We've currently got 2 brick plinths that are two brick lengths square and about a metre high. The hollow centre is filled with concrete. From these brick plinths our 5 bar gate is hung from hinges put into the brickwork when it was being built. My plan is to extend the plinths...

Hello All, Does anybody know how to find whether a future court case is actually taking place. My mate and I are still owed money from a contractor we worked for last year and he has been stringing us along all this time regarding the money. By the way, I am not holding my breath about...

Hi All, Second question of the day. I bought a new 12V 7Ah battery for my burglar alarm today and fitted it in. I was presuming that if I then turned the power off to simulate a power cut then the battery would keep things going. But no, sure enough the external sounder started. The...

Hello All, Last night we had a power cut and the external sounder went off for the standard 15 minutes because I presume our back-up battery in the control panel is dead. It hasn't been looked at or serviced since it was installed 8 years ago. About 11pm the power came back on again but...

Hello All, I think I am going mad. A number of years ago I put 5 downlights in the ceiling of our hall, no problem. I want to do similar in our backroom but for the life of me I can't remember how a wired each light to each other. The lights each have there own transformer with a live and...

Hello All. I need to move a PIR down the wall a bit so I can lower the ceiling. Obvoiusly though if I try to open up the PIR I get the alarm going off with tampering. If I try to turn the power off to the alarm then all hell breaks loose and the siren starts outside. I have Securit 800L...

Hello All, Probably a daft question from a complete plumbing novice. Is there a name for the part that I need that screws into my new radiator one end and then attaches to the existing radiator valve the other end. I will have to work out the sizes, I get a bit confused with 15mm...

Hello All, Thanks for your replies yesterday. On closer inspection I have an existing cable of 4 wires. There is a Yellow, Red, Blue and Earth. The Red and Yellow are live. On my new bathroom extractor fan I have only 2 terminals. One that says for permanent live and the other for...

Afternoon All, I have just bought a bathroom extractor fan to replace the old one that has packed up. It would be fair to say the new one, Intervent is very cheap to replace an RDL one. Not being an electrician I am now confused as to the wiring. The old one has connections for Live, Neutral...

Hello All, Recently moved into a new house and the shed needs the felt replaced. It is a flat roof shed with a slight gradient. My plan is to strip the old felt and renew with shed felt with one piece overlapping the other piece. Is it advisable to use some sort of adhesive across the whole...

Hello All, I have an old rusting isolating valve that I want to change. It is just past a bend where the pipe goes into the shower. The other side of the valve is the pipe going through into a cupboard. There is only about 10mm of play in the pipe. Is this enough to change for a new valve...

Hello All, I am sticking self-adhesive floor tiles to MDF. The instructions recommend priming any porous substrate and chipboard and ply are mentioned but not MDF. Can anyone tell me whether it needs to be primed and if so, with what. PVA I presume. Thanks

Hello All, Can someone run through the procedure for fitting a compression joint. I am fitting some new taps. For the basin I have cut the pipes and bought 2 flexible tap connectors. 1 is ok and the other has a slight leak. On the bath I have just connected back on the existing 15mm...

Hello All, I thought I had a nice little job for a sunday morning. Replacing the shower switch for a new one. The old one was old and grubby. Bought a new 45A one from B&Q. Similar connections in the back 2L and 2N plus 2 earths, basically the same as the old one. Connected no...

Hello All, I have been sold some Bal bond SBR and the above BAL grip wall tile adhesive in a tub. From a well known tile shop. I explained that I have ceramic tiles that are 235x355mm and are going on a normal plasterboard wall in a bathroom away from any wet areas ie bath or shower or sink...