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Can I plaster over a plastic pipe and a plastic push fitting (equal T). I will cover it in Hemp Sleeving beforehand. Or does the plaster get into the inner workings of the pushfit connector and muck it up? What's best practice?

Has anyone had a bad experience with Wicks Rapid Dose Sealed System inhibitor applicator ? Or is it just me? I have been plagued with leaks from my boiler over the years while happily applying the Wickes Inhibiter. Then I began to take notice of the black 'gunk' around the filling loop (were I...

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As this is solvent based, will this melt the foam insulation on the back of the plaserboard?

I am about to fix insulated plasterboard directly to my plastered solid brick walls. Can I use 'gripfill' or 'pinkgrip', or will the solvents in these adhesives melt the bare foam insulation on the back of the plasterboard? Otherwise I will use standard plasterboard adhesive also known as...

Does the cable from the Cooker to the terminal outlet box need to be heat resistant flex or anything, - or will a standard bit of twin and earth be o.k.(suitably sized of course). The installation manual for my new cooker only specifies HO5VV-F pvc flexible cable, - but I cannot find this at...

The heat resistant cable from the cooker can loop into the kitchen cabinet next to the cooker were the 'cooker control unit' is . Yeah I know that strictly speaking the control unit should be "easily accessible" !! If the cooker control unit was mounted above the worktop - and I did...

I am re-instating the cooker control unit in my kitchen, can I wire the cooker straight into the \\\'Cooker Control Unit\\\' and not use the \\\'Terminal Outlet Box\\\' ? (5.3Kw new cooker to be used with existing 4mm cable and 32A mcb)