Recent content by Ninemill

Yeah I thought it would probably look fine, I just wish I'd chopped that 40mm off the blocks yesterday before they went in. Apart from aesthetics, the reason for wanting something thin so that I can course up in the old imperials is that I'll be paying twice for the bricks - once for the...

Foundation concrete was supposed to be set at 1 block and 4 imperial courses below dpc, it's ended up about 40mm higher than it should have been. In hindsight I should have cut all the blocks in the 1st course down a bit, but I measured and decided that 1 course of block and 1 course of 40mm...

I'm currently having a small extension built on to the back of my house and we started laying the first course of blocks yesterday. These blocks took me to about 50mm from the brick courses (imperial) on the main building that I'm trying to match up to. I was intending on buying a few 40mm...

Hi there, My sister-in-law's boyfriend is just starting out as a builder/handyman so I thought a good xmas present for him this year would be a site radio. The Makita BMR 100 looks the best but does anyone know what would be the best sort of battery to get for it that could power it for a...

Thanks for the replies guys, turns out I'd made a mistake with the shower hose. I've got 4 of them lying around from various bits and bobs that I'd bought. It turned out I had been supplied one with the taps but it had got moved amidst the bathroom refurb. The one supplied with the taps has a...

I'll try and take pics tonight, but in the meantime I've phoned the manufacturer. The guy on the technical line said I should be able to remove the nut from one end of the shower hose to allow it to thread through the holder. Once it's through I can re-attach it and couple it up to the...

Sorry about that, obviously wasn't making myself very clear! Here's a photo of the tap setup... http://www.tapshop321.com/images/photos/1673/sagittarius-plaza-4-hole-bath-filler_MA.jpg And here's a cross section diagram of the shower hose and holder. The connections at both ends of the...

Hi everyone, just getting round to fitting a 4 hole deck mounted set of taps to my new bath. Everything makes sense apart from one thing... I can't work out how to thread the shower hose through the holder for the shower head. It needs to come from the outlet underneath the main spout, up...

Looks a very similar situation to mine, I'm gonna try and pick some up before I start connecting up - gotta be the extra cash if it works! How much did you put on in the end? I'm guessing run it in the grooves for the entire length of the thread, then give it one more layer along the length...

Did you have any kind of washer at the end of your parallel thread or did you just rely on the loctite? The coupler I've got don't have anything like that on them.

Thanks for the reply. Called the shower manufacturer, they said a parallel thread was fine. Plumbers merchants sold me some 'Plumb Blue' and said to out that over the PTFE as well, but the Loctite 55 stuff you talk about looks good as well. Do I need to grab some of that or does Plumb Blue...

cheeky bump. Just been to the plumbers merchants, they sold me a coupler like this http://s7g3.scene7.com/is/image/ae235/82086_P It's got a parallel thread but the guy said to just wrap loads of PTFE round it until a grommit builds up at the back end of the thread. Is he right?

Afternoon everyone, I've got a concealed shower valve that I'm fitting in my bathroom. The hot and cold feeds are in the vicinity of the valve in 15mm copper now and the stud work is almost finished for the false wall, which will then be pb'd and tiled. The valve has two inlets and 1 outlet...

Not sure if this will fan the flames or put them out! Here's the amp I've been given - just a basic studio power amp. 100w, has overheat protection but I have no idea as to the internal circuitry. http://www.touched-by-sound.com/en/Recording-34706-MAM_Music_and_More_PA_100.html Looks...