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Hi. I'm thinking of doubling up an old radiator. Thing is the inlet and outlet pipes as the radiator will stand off the wall by double the current amount. I have 10 mm microbore copper. Now it's standing off ~40 mm and I need to go to 83 mm. Also the radiator can be dropped by 50 mm to fit in...

Hiya. I have one of these:- It's brand new. Can anyone explain why it should call for heat for only 40 secondsish every hour or so? I can't see any purpose for operating the boiler for so short a time. That just seems like it's ruining the boiler as it clearly can't heat anything in < 1...

I'm referring to these... Which way around is the 75 mm x 100 mm please? I.e. if the spur was bolted to a 3" x 3" wooden fence post, would it be exactly the same width or half an inch wider each side than the wooden post ?

This is a bit of a curve ball. Is there a substance that can be applied to copper to prevent the spread /adhesion of solder? So if you apply this stuff, the solder would be repelled and the copper remains clean? Sort of a masking fluid /tape that withstands a blow torch. Anything at all?

I've been guttering, and thought that I'd use a water level to ensure that the outflow is lower than the top of the guttering run. It's a 6m run, so I was aiming for a 10mm fall across it. The water level doesn't seem usable for one person up a ladder :( It might seem simple at first - water...

There are many threads here regarding the installation of eaves protectors. And several videos on line. Just push back a few tile and hey presto! But what happens at the ends of the fascias? They never deal with the ends. One end might be flashed against another wall, and the other end is...

My sister has the following existing fascia and soffit detail, and we're looking to cap over /under:- The loft is vented with a continuous run of 45mm wide slots along the existing wooded fascia, so I think that we have to keep ventilation. Also notice that the existing wooden soffit board is...

I've been looking around (and on-line) for uPVC roof line products (fascias, soffits and guttering). I've been to Eurocell in Birmingham and their stuff looks very good. However, it seems the highest cost of anything I've managed to find on line. Swish, Freefoam and Wickes all seem to be...

Imagine a three bedroom house with an upstairs and downstairs, and a garage. It was build circa 1985. Imagine too a consumer unit with two breakers for all the sockets. Let's call them left and right. A. If you turn off the left breaker, all sockets upstairs go off. All sockets downstairs go...

I'm wondering whether there is any form of transparent plumbing pipe? I mean stuff rated for domestic water pressure that fits the standard diameters (say 15mm or 22mm). Rigid or flexible. Since you couldn't solder it, it would have to be compatible with either push fit or compression...

What's the actual difference between these two PVA products? Both say they are for priming and bonding (specifically mentioning wood), yet the price difference is 5 times. Is it that Resin W gives you a 100% bond whereas the Ever Build PVA only gives you a universal bond (n) ?

I'm putting up some shelves onto plaster boarded walls and I'm confused. When you look on line for advice, it all seems to revolve around the type of fixing you use. They range from small generic yellow Rawl plugs, through Fischer specialist plaster board plugs to large spring toggles. It...

I'm in the happy position of having to connect together two halves of a pond pump's electricity cable. It got cut. Some details:- Otter 3000 pump. The cable is the standard factory fitted 3 core 0.75mm² rubber cable. The cable measures approximately 7mm in diameter. It's not armoured. The...

My sister has just renewed her home insurance. I've spent ages over the years installing, greasing and upgrading her burglar alarm. Wires, batteries, strobes, more PIRs and more reed switches. And more wires. Her having a burglar alarm made absolutely no difference to the lowest three quotes...

As the sticky is locked, does anyone want a Tunsall Security TS500 system manual? Probably not as it's a bit old, but it's going in the bin unless someone wants a copy. Dated October '91.

Some one posted a worrying and plausible issue with burglary. I imagine that this is a common technique as there's nothing worse that breaking into a seemingly unoccupied house to find four marines sleeping off that night's champagne party :eek: + :mad::mad::mad::mad: = :cry: I've thought of...

Would it help if this was a sticky, maintained by the community? "Recommend" and "recommendation" searching results in 44 entire threads on this forum. There must be others like "what's a good wireless alarm?" that I haven't counted. The same stuff is repeated over and over. The same...

I refer to stuff like this. It looks like typical trunking. Thing is, I don't know how to use it! I don't consider myself uneducated, but I can't figure out how to put together a run with corner and tee connectors. The only way I can assemble a run is to attach it piece by piece as I go...

I'm specifically referring to the Pyronix KX15DQ PIR. It's this... When some sort of detection event occurs, the indicator light flashes. There are two flash types. 1. A long steady on, which I assume is a full detection event of something wandering around in front of the sensor. 2. There...

I've done a search for "PIR" and there are no recommendation threads for the last 2 years, so perhaps it's time to ask again. Technology changes so rapidly... Is there a common internal wired PIR detector that is recommended? I'd like to exclude pet tolerant varieties. Other than that...