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    car port

    Just wanted it to be spot on best i could due to the forward slope, but i think thats the only way...just thought may have been a more technical way
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    car port

    Between my gable end i have a long drive..opposite my neighbours garage. So the port will span from my gable end to his garage wall. It will have a slight slop forwards into guttering and down pipe. I have permisson from my neighbout to mount a beam along the its lenght..i will add one on my...
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    car port

    Hi guys Building a carport bewteen two opposite high walls. I ll attach a beam to one wall but how would i mirror the same position on the opposite wall please?
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    Joist direction

    am buying a new fish tank, total weight when full is almost 1/2 ton. In order for the support to be there the tank will be hard up against the wall which between my home and my neighbour (semi detached) problem is I can't take up the floor and check as we paid a fortune to have laminate...
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    Toilet cistern confusion

    Anyone? Will any cc cistern work?
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    Toilet cistern confusion

    Yeah I think eventually it would leak and then be a chew on again to replace. So basically any cc cistern should work?
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    Toilet cistern confusion

    hi guys, hope someone can offer some help. My cistern stopped working so had to buy new flush bits. In order to fit I had to remove the cistern from the toilet. This was held on by 2 bolts though a metal plate which sat on a rubber donut. The cistern it self had no bolt fixing holes. So...
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    Kitchen unit cooker hood

    Yes old one was like that but this cupboard has a normal cupboard door and opens left to right, not up and over like cook hood type, I can only assume the filter sticks on the bottom and the extract goes through cupbaords and out
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    Kitchen unit cooker hood

    Hi Had a new kitchen fitted and we have noticed the cupboards sides above either side of the cooker have began to bubble, after only 2 months. The problem would seem to come from the steam from the cooker. We bought this cooker hood, but all it was, was an empty cupboard. So how does this...
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    Odd boiler problem

    Hi guys Hoping someone can help. We have a baxi combi boiler, about 4 years old and last service in September 2014. We have a shower, the mixer types with thermostatic valve and its always work ok. Anyway the other week I noticed a marked in crease in the water pressure coming from the...
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    Cramped space

    Hi there I am removing a socket from a ring main and replacing this with a 13 amp fused switch box. from this I will spur of a single socket and another spur from the fused switch will connect in series 2 double sockets. The layout is all done, however I am concerned about the amount of...
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    Leaking shower

    Hi Guys I have a mira 88 shower, the type that runs off the cold and hot feeds, not from the taps but from the pipes in the wall. Last year I got a new combi boiler and noticed the shower began to drip after turning it fully off. Recently its got worse and now its a steady stream. I...
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    Electrical cable help please

    Hi Guys, I have a single socket that is below the kitchen work top and is used for the washing machine. Opening this socket reveals 2 cables entering. It was my plan to add to this socket a 3rd cable running to a fused switch to enable the addition of further sockets. Well the socket is...
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    plumbing problem.....cant think

    Hi guys..have a question that i hope someone can help with..I have a massive fish tank that i need to fill with warm water, normally done by connecting a hose pipe to the mixer tape, but this doesnt work that well as its hard to keep connected. So was thinking of fitting to the hot and cold...
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    baxi boiler leak, please help

    Cheers, just wasn't sure if the expansion was at fault forcing the water up.If its nothing other than faulty vent I can replace that myself
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