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I will answer my own question for the benefit of future readers 3) An air admittance valve can be fitted to the side of the toilet above the waste pipe so negating an external vent. A mean to rod should be available too in event of blockage. These black couplings can be used to create very...

Hi I have a semi with attached side garage. I drew up some plans which passed for a basic ground floor box behind house and garage and poured the footings this last fortnight under a building notice. So no professional or builder input to this point. It is bank holiday weekend and I cant speak...

Genuinely thanks for help guys. Some postings arent very helpful but I guess that is the nature of the beast, its easy to level criticism and sarcasm when sat at a keyboard. Sparky has been and wired it all up and sorted out any problems. Re ran as much cable as possible and colour terminated...

Thanks Pete for a constructive reply. I don't want to trouble sparx while he is away. Do you think sleeving identification at all terminals is acceptable?

i had a sparx changed my CU last month as well wire in a new kitchen ring main. I had ceilings down and ran the cable as per his instructions and replastered this week. He is coming back to terminate all connections and issue my part P after his hols but I need some light in the kitchen area...

Hi, I am refurbing my kitchen and had the ceilings down so ran some cable for a new kitchen feed, and downlighters from a reel left by the previous homeowner. I have now boarded and plastered the ceiling. I just pulled the cable through the first downlighter hole and noticed it has two...

further to this I have used multiple washers and o rings but cannot quieten the fan. However it appears the rubber mounting that the fan spins on may be the culprit. Is it replaceable?

Thanks for the pointer, I had initially thought rubber would have been inappropriate because of the heat on metal surfaces within the oven.

Hi, I have bought a used tecnik range oven and the cooling motor is noisy when in operation. I have taken the oven apart and the cooling fan itself is fine. When unmounted from the oven casing it turns very quietly, but the way it is mounted causes the noise metallic rattling sound. I think...

thanks john, good advice. i am a tenant and I just got fed up with constantly reminding my landlord about the hot water problem so decided to take a look myself as figured it would be something fairly simple. I suspect any advice I pass onto him will fall on deaf ears.

after much contortion I have establishged the ball valve was sticking and have freed it and hopefully it will now work ok. many thanks. great help.

f+e tank very hard to access but dipped a wooden spoon it in and bone dry! So far filling with about 50 mugs of water as so inaccessible. Should I fill it half way or less? Might seem a very basic question but shouldn't this be filling with cold water with a floating ball valve? I really cant...

thanks for quick reply. will do very shortly and report back.

I have a conventional Housewarmer back boiler with a Randall 102 analog timer controller. CH works fine through the controller. However HW does not. In HW mode the timer fires up boiler when twisting through ON but flame goes out within 1 minute and consequently no hot water. About every hour...

In the absence of a meter I removed and joined the wires from the thermostat together (as prompted from another forum), turned on power and the neon oven light came on and oven began to heat. I have ordered a new thermostat. Many thanks for any help and advice.

have you put salt in it? we had one years ago that did something similar unless the salt reservoir was full