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Found out yesterday my underbuild in spain is like Glastonbury in the rain.muddy as hell. Traced it to a leak from the mains to the house, its bubbling and fizzing but is that an indication that the leak is very close to that point or could it be 2 metres of concrete breaking away from the...

Hi guys, Flat in spain ( but no difference as far as i can see) Bathroom Light fitting has 3 wires brown L blue N green ( checked on other lights connected in other rooms) so looking to set up 4 LED down lights ip65 built in drivers. Using 1.5 twin and earth joining earths by Junctions and...

Hi guys, Flat in spain ( but no difference as far as i can see) Bathroom Light fitting has 3 wires brown L blue N green ( checked on other lights connected in other rooms) so looking to set up 4 LED down lights ip65 built in drivers. Using 1.5 twin and earth joining earths by Junctions...

Hi gents ( and ladies if your here too) decided to get wago connectors as the helgar box is way too tight for the 4 cables going to the rose and another out makes 5 ,so possibly 15 wires squeezed in:( going off the photo of the present set up ,what wagos would i need to do it safely and...

Hi guys , I have two plasterers due Friday to plaster a bedroom walls and ceiling, stupid question time... If I have a water hosepipe up through the window ( as the room is directly above my outside tap) would they 'be ok doing the mix in the room itself or have to go outside each Time they mix...

hi guys, Bought a quickwire switch and load block to change a rose for a modern set up in a bedroom but upon checking the rose has actually 4 2.5 cables into it making it a possible second light on the switch although theres only one light in the room . I had a loft conversion a good few years...

Hi guys, C h remote Timer has 4 different settings for the day each day, but it doesn't specify how long each runs for, had it set for morning at 6.40 but was still on at 9.30! Any way of setting for an hour or so as opposed to getting up and using manually!? Ta

Hi Guys,thanks for reading, have decided to try and fit understairs units ( eventually) but first need to remove brick wall and pantry shelf. Im worried if the wall and the walls supporting the shelf may have something to do with the stairs support. stairs are still sitting on the main walls...

Hi gents once again, After a house visit by a company I have had a quote by phone message,just a basic 4 line breakdown, Job costs Labour total I agreed in principle but thought I would get a contract of some sort as I did off previous quotes explaining % of money up front...

Hi guys, just had two plumbers in,the idea being they disconnect the two pipes from the cylinder and cap it off thus leaving me with a normal working hot water cylinder for a few weeks while i remove the old rads around the house for them to come back and install a new combi system. they left...

Hello all, bad smell traced it to the breaker ,was very hot and melting plastic in top right corner, so called a spark asap he said it was loose wires there , he tightened them up and now it works fine but is coming back to install a whole new box system. would it be ok to leave it as it...

Hi everyone, long time no log in! Anyways Bad leaks in the bedroom during driving rain ,played detective a bit but am reluctant to play spider man on the roof,at my age. Took a photo do you think this is the culprit? had the house repointed about 3 years ago but they didnt do the chimney...

Whil;e I was on my hols my neighbour had new gutters installed , we live in a semi sharing the downpipe ,just on my side of the boundary . Looks nice but it is about three inches higher than the original and where it meets the downpipe they raised the downpipe spout up and have bent the...

Hello again gents, I have a light fitting i want to put up using the existing ceiling rose cable ( keeping the rose in place) but new light fitting has an earth conection on it. The cable off the rose only has the two pos/neg no earth. can I just wire it up using these two and ignore the earth...

Hello again gents, I have a light fitting i want to put up using the existing ceiling rose cable ( keeping the rose in place) but new light fitting has an earth conection on it. The cable off the rose only has the two pos/neg no earth. can I just wire it up using these two and ignore the earth...

My primatic has given up the ghost ,or more ,I have . Been looking around and (please correct me)an indirect tank does basically the same job as a primatic, coil comes in with the central heating water passing through heats up the water ,or the element can heat it up from the tank. If that is...

Fiat Brava x reg failed mot last week on a few minor faults and the CO emmisions and lambda tests. I sorted out the minor probs and then to hopefully pass the emmisions failure did an oil change changed the spark plugs,changed the oil filter and cleaned the lambda sensor and the air filter...

I have an old primatic emmersion heater ,less said about that the better! but anyway my thermostat kept tripping out so I kept resetting it and the element would work for a time but then the thermo would trip out again. I bought a new thermostat but have the same problem,do you think the...

hi all, Just bought a oregon 91 electric chainsaw secondhand,runs ok but chain is blunt,how can I tell what size chain it is? it has Oregon 91 on the bar if that helps . Id imagine lay the chain flat and measure end to end ? Dont want to buy the wrong one! oh yes and is any paticular chain...

First just a quick intro to me I have four different fork lift truck licences , nvq level 2 in production and am first aid at work qualified , working at height/ladder trained ect ..but all in a production factory enviroment . Have recently been made redundant and was looking to do some...