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    downstairs bathroom 25m from HW tank

    I have a gravity fed HW tank and want to put a downstairs bathroom in my house with HW to a sink and a walk in shower. The only issue is that it will be 25m from the HW tank and with such a long pipe run, it will take an age for the HW to get through. I could put a power shower in - although...
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    advice for solid oak floor

    Hi, I've recently had a solid oak floor laid to my living room (4m x 7m). The oak was glued to level concrete after a parquet floor was lifted (which was stuck down with bitumen). A liquid DPM was applied before the new floor was laid. The oak floor is 20mm thick 140mm wide and various...
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    dimming 12v halogens

    i've installed 6 12v 25w halogen downlighters in my study, each of them with their own transformer. They all work perfectly well when using a normal switch. I decided to replace the switch with a dimmer and again all fine. the only problem is when I dim them to the lowest setting on the...
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    Boiler kettling

    I have an Ideal mexico CF 40/60 floorstanding boiler that is situated on the ground floor. There is a hot water tank on the 1st floor which is gravity fed from the boiler. When the boiler fires up, there is a knocking noise from the boiler which echoes around the house. I'm fairly sure that...
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    Extending Ring Main Advice

    Hi, I need to extend a ring main to put a couple of new sockets in. The problem I have is that the only place for the new cables to be situated is behind the skirting board - However I already have central heating pipes behind the skirting board (concrete floor). Can the 2.5mm cables be...
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