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yes apart from the bickering about 230/240v. Can someone with the regs help-seco services perhaps.

typically, posters are being pedantic and giving allsorts of information except what you want to know. So I'll try to help. A 9.5kW shower will take more than 32A so the fuse would blow eventually. If all was OK with the shower I would expect the fuse to last quite a while before blowing. If...

My daughter has a 2006 Focus, 40000 miles and the other day she rang to say that it started making a noise and the steering went heavy just as she turned into work. There was also a lot of fluid under the car. As she is 60 miles away, she called the RAC who came out and took her car to a...

3 phase power =1.732xVxIxPF where 1.732 = square root of 3 V assume to be 415 I is the current that you are looking for. PF is the power factor which should be almost 1 in a near totally resistive load such as an oven. 18500=1.732x415xIx1 Transpose the formula to give I=18500/718.8...

I try to tell her all this, but she just goes off on one, you know what daughters are like. It seems that there is no co-ordination with BG as to what previous visits have found or replaced. Anyway back to the original question. If she decides to replace what can I do about the drain. From...

She has a Vokera 20-80S or is it 80-20S? Anyway when she first moved in the house she found that the plastic front cover that supports the controls etc was broken, leaving all the switches, timer and stats loose, and electrics exposed. I fixed a tufnol sheet to the chassis with off/on and...

My daughter is considering having her unreliable Vokera replaced by a new condensing Worcester type. As it is a foreigner, the plumber has asked for someone to have a drain for him to connect to. I've had a look at our Baxi which was fitted two years ago and it has a 15mm pipe coming...

erm, I meant how many tonnes, bags or whatever.

I have a hole 800mm deep and 1300x900 wide. How much 20mm gravel do I need to order to fill it?

I would echo what has been said-you don't need a contactor for that small a load.

I have a 9 month old petrol Focus 1.6 and is running fine but there are a couple of odd noises that I was wondering if anyone else had with their Focus. Shortly after I have first started the car, there is a quiet twang somewhere at the front of the car, under the bonnet perhaps. It sounds...

My Mk 2 Punto is making a noise like a motor boat, there is little coming out of the exhaust pipe at the rear and underneath, just behind the mesh section near the gearbox the pipe has corroded and come away. How much of the system will have to be replaced? It seems that there is a long pipe...

I have a bathroom to tile, which then needs a shower fitting. I want to bury the pipework. It's a Triton Zante II. If I work out where the pipe needs to come out, is it normal practice to bury the pipe leaving a few inches stuck out. Tile and fit the shower then is it easy enough to cut the...

I'm sure that many of us on here have spent many a happy hour feeding a coil of string into a hole then trying to fish it out using an old wire coat hanger taped to a piece of oval plastic conduit. There's no secret to it really.

My own personal opinion is that crimps are designed for multi stranded conductors, so that they spread into final crimped area. Single stranded can become weak and break and voids can be left, even using the correct tool. I would avoid them personally, but I'm sure that many sparks would be...

sorry that last post should have read delta 230v.

You can get an invertor that will accept a 230v single phase input and will supply 3 phase 230v. You must then make sure that your 3 phase motor can be wired in star and has 230v windings. 99% of them do. An invertor will be around £200-£300. This may be comparable with a single phase motr...

I have a 3 year old focus and have never had to use the spare key until today, when I thought I would give it to the mechanic who is carrying out the 36000 mile service and first MOT. When I used it to open the door, there was a bleeping inside the car and when I turned the ignition on, the...

You lot should stop being pedantic and grow up. In answer to the original question. Yes it can be jointed. I would advise, if it is inside, use a suitable box. If it is outside and buried, use a proper joint-looks something like a submarine. Ther must be millions of these in the country...

There doesn't seem to be a forum on TV wiring so i'll try this one. I have a V+ box in my living room and an additional box in my son's room upstairs. The cable goes from the entry point near the living room TV, upstairs to his room. He's moving to another room upstairs and I want to...