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    Cast iron soil pipe - socket size?

    I have a leak from the waste pipe contraption at the back of my toilet so I was thinking of replacing it all with just a McAlpine flexible pan connector WC-F23R. I believe that the fins on the end of the connector are designed to fit in a 110mm socket. From the photo, the cast iron socket on the...
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    Clunk and scraping noise

    I have a Glowworm Swiftflow 100 combi boiler. It makes a loud clunk and scraping noise, on average about once or twice a day. I have uploaded it to YouTube. The sound I am talking about starts about 20s into the recording, but I have left the preceeding boiler noises in the recording to help...
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    Pilot light went out but has reluctantly relit.

    We have a Glowworm Swiftflow 100 combi boiler. Today we discovered that we had no hot water and then found that the boiler pilot light had gone out. We went through the lighting procedure. In order to light the pilot light you need to hold in the gas control knob, press the piezo to light...
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    Steam iron anti-scale systems

    I don't need to fix anything; I was just wondering how anti-scale systems work on steam irons. There appear to be two types. The first is irons with replaceable anti-scale cartridges - What's in the cartridges? Is it some kind of water softener or is it acid for reacting with the limescale...
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    Floating a floor

    I have just been watching the Wickes TV programme about fitting a solid wooden floor. http://www.wickes.co.uk/pcat/webtv The first thing that surprises me is that they are floating a floor over floorboards which I would expect to be uneven. They are using 5mm fibreboard - Will that sort out...
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    How to lay elastilon

    So, as I understand it, Elastilon has elastic properties and pulls the wooden planks together, even as the wood expands and contracts. If that is the idea, when I am laying it, am I meant to stretch the elastilon as I pull out the plastic cover sheet so that the sticky surface, then exposed, is...
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    GlowWorm Swiftflow 100 - dim and flashing MAINS light

    I was having a shower and the hot water turned cold and never warmed up again. The pilot light is lit but the burners do not light when I turn on the hot water. There are three lights: MAINS, RUNNING, LOW PRESSURE WARNING. The only one that is lit at all is the MAINS light but it is very very...
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