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    Radiator Leaking - What am i doing wrong?

    Hi All, ivw done a bit of DIY plumbing throughout the years and never have i had so much hassle as i have today. My wife purchased one of these https://www.bathroommountain.co.uk/santorini-anthracite-flat-panel-heated-towel-rail-650x400mm-33178?_br_psugg_q=santorini It didn't come with valves...
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    Cooker Hood Help!

    Hi mate. Please see below photo, but yes I will be fitting an elbow, going to try and get a 110mm soil pipe elbow fitting. The other problem I have is the existing ducting through the wall was that white flexi stuff that you often see on tumble dryers and it had caught on the wall when they...
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    Cooker Hood Help!

    Hi Guys it states 650 in the Manufacturers Instructions please see below?
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    Cooker Hood Help!

    Hi All, we purchased a house 2 years ago and have gone to replace the existing cooker hood and having issues with meeting the Building Regulations and Manufacturers recommendations. Link to the hood we've purchased at bottom of post. Problem. We have a gas hob and therefore the minimum hood...
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Many Thanks mate I purchased a Wago Box this afternoon to use my existing Wago 221 connectors in it, will terminate all inside that and pop it back through the hole in the wall
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Thats what I thought and wondered if its behind that cabinet, I didn't want to have to take that off the wall. Is thst what you think as well its behind the cabinet? If got the wall cut out now underneath the hob and the fishing rods through from top to bottom, just need install the fused...
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Hi mate yes I tried that and there's a stud in the way, must have been drilled and threaded through the hole in the stud, but even if I had managed to get through, I still have no access on the external wall for the termination box that the round flex terminates with the flat t&e.
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Hi mate yes checked inside all cupboards, I've now managed to get a section of gyproc cut out to the eight hand side of the double socket under the hob and managed to get my carbon rods down inside the cavity to the bottom, just need to hook it out now, that's my favourite bit lol :) Can I just...
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Hi mate I can't get through to the left to terminate on the existing fused isolation switch, but I should be able to get down the wall to put a fused switched spur in off the socket below the hob that the hobs plugged into. Many Thanks for your help Spark Right really appreciate it!! :)
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Many Thanks Sparkright. I'm not an electrician therefore not sure of all the regs but have done a bit over the years and want to comply with regs. Therefore, is it OK to break that ring/plug socket under the hob, put a 13amp fused switched spur in, then connect the ring back up to that original...
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    Can you solve this Puzzle Re Electrics/Cooker Hood

    Hi All, can anybody please help me to solve this puzzle? Replacing cooker hood. Existing round flex connected to existing hood was only 2 core and had no earth. New Hood is only class 1 (Bosch!) and requires an earth. I have a 13amp Fused Spur above the cupboards (see picture) and this...
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    Cooker Ventilation

    Hi All, I would be really grateful if somebody could help me out on this as it's doing my nut in! We are replacing our cooker hood, and have found the house builder used the white plastic type of tumble dryer style flexi pipe through the wall. The external wall in the masonry is 120mm, however...
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    Galvanic Corrosion

    Even better Many Thanks John!! :)
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    Galvanic Corrosion

    Many Thanks John didn't even know you could get them many thanks!! :)
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    Galvanic Corrosion

    Hi All, I need to fit a couple of angle brackets to the below aluminium track on the top of my campervan, and will then be fitting a slotted channel to the angle bracket, and then running 2 x slotted channels off of of that slotted chanel running to another slotted channel on the other side of...
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    Earth Bonding Pipes Under Sink?

    Hi mate the plastic pipe comes out of the floor, into cabinet, up to approx 12' below sink, connects to copper pipework for approx 12 ' then connects to a flexi pipe then the taps?
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    Joint Question

    Many Thanks mate, I didn't put any on the flexi side, it's on the copper pipe coming up with an olive and nut on then that connects to the valve end and then the other side of the valve end connects to the flexi hose end and leads to the pipe, I haven't put anything on that flexi hose end that...
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    Earth Bonding Pipes Under Sink?

    Many Thanks mate. So therefore even though there's no run back to an Earth rod or the consumer unit, by linking the two copper pipes together, kind of equalises the pipes and therefore would either stop or reduce the amount of current flow from one pipe, through the human body, and to the other...
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    Earth Bonding Pipes Under Sink?

    Morning All, we moved into a newish house nearly two years ago, built approximately 12 years ago, in Scotland, timber framed, with plastic piping, apart from near boiler, and under kitchen sink etc, and possibly other sinks (I haven't checked yet as all the other are all wall mounted and...
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    Joint Question

    Many Thanks Wayners much appreciated mate will leave it!
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