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Ignore my earlier post. Like a complete idiot, I had not added the washers to the elbows. I know, I'm an idiot lol :oops:

Hi I hope someone can make sense of this, I have just put in my new shower valve which has got plastic tap connector type fittings for the hot and cold inlets. I put PTFE tape around the plastic threads before attaching plastic elbows. Turned on the water and both elbows are weeping. Tightened...

Ye surely, if the question is sooooooooooooooooo boring, dont bother wasting your time replying too it then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :roll:

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but just about to install my new shower, have a resin stone shower tray which is going to be laid on tongue and groove flooring. I have seen that you can cement them in place or use silicon sealant on the underside of the tray, which one is best to...

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I have just checked, the sockets upstairs and downstairs are all on the same fuse which is a 30A (old style rewirable fuse). Would this effect what I am proposing to do??

Thanks for all the info. Taking what Jim2287 said that you can spur from a radial or a ring, by using an fcu and the same size cable, here is what I am hoping to do: 1. Take a 2.5mm spur from an existing double socket, that I have checked and I think its on a radial circuit (no continuity...

Thanks, for that! So would it be safer to keep with the 2.5mm cabling for the spur as normal or upsize it to 4mm as I read in a reply to someone else's post????

I Have been reading the posts on spurs and general info on them on other websites, they say that a spur that is too long can be dangerous!! But cannot find out how long is too long! One of the posts on here suggests using 4mm cable instead of 2.5mm if the spur is going to be very long, is this...

My question is: How do I tell what type of circuit I have in my house, either ring or radial???? Moved into a our new house about a year ago (built in 1975, if that helps???). Don't know a great deal about electrics, but I want to see about taking a spur from a socket in the bedroom, but...