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Hello Can someone kindly tell me what this (see attachment) is properly called (so that I order the right thing)? It’s the cartridge out of a shower mixer bar. Many thanks

I've just bought a 1.5kw panel heater. I want to test it before hard wiring as it means moving a lot of stuff around. Can I run it for an hour or two thru a 13a plug? The instructions say don't do it but I can't see what the problem is.

My shower/bath mixer tap is playing up. I can move the collar up and down enough to see the flat bit where presumably I can unscrew it but none of my spanners or wrenches are thin enough to get into the grooves. What sort of wrench or grippers are going to do it?

I've just moved into a property and discovered that the mixer tap will only feed the shower and not the bath. The mechanism appears to be a chrime collar that I presume moves up and down to select either bath or shower. Are these things straightforward, i.e. what could the problem be and hiw to...

My Mrs recently bought a modern chandelier from Amazon. It turns out to be German (I think). The problem is that when I shortened the supply lead all three wires are encased in a clear plastic. The original terminated in properly identified blocks but it's impossible to tell which was which...

My electrician added a spur for a cooker hood. After he left my wife decided that she didn't like the socket where it was - so I chased in a 10 inch run to the other side of the hood, extended the spur by means of a block, and put a blank plate on the original. Am I right in thinking that this...

I'm replacing plastic with metal plates. The existing earths run to the back box first and then run a fly to the back of the plate. Is it ok to leave this arrangement for metal plates?