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The gas bonding needs to be done within 600mm of entering the building - couldnt the spark simply run a new 10mm cable from the gas meter to the board if you dont want to rip the floor up to check?

I'm currently still installing to the 16th edition as theres not much choice of 17th edition CU's and they're more expensive at the mo

Thats a circuit breaker not an RCD - circuit breakers will only trip in fault conditions i.e. overload of short circuit. So it will either be a break in the cable so the live/neutral/earth cables are touching somewhere because the cable is damaged or the shower is overloading the circuit...

where is the bypass valve normally located - near the central heating pump? Is this normally fitted on a vented system?

Looking at the FAQ the only things that i can see it could be are: 3) Air lock in heating pipe work (not radiators). Turn off all the other rads to force the flow into the cold one. or 8 ) Sludge in radiator or pipe work or valve causing blockage which will need to be flushed out One...

the whole system has been completely drained down and refilled :(

if it had sludge in the pipe surely it wouldnt refill with water once the system had been refilled? :?

One of my friends rads stopped working & is completely cold. So far he's replaced it with a new rad with new standard valves, both valves are fully open and the systems been bled. When the bleed screw is opened water comes out of the rad. Its supplied with standard 15mm copper tails. The...

i've done the beginner course at ableskills which is pritty good if your a complete novice, i can now skim to a decent finish. But if i were you i'd sign up to your local college and get a C&G qualification, my college does it every sat 8-1 for a year

Be careful if it is fed by 2 wires, dont presume which wire is which :wink: I came across a person who had an old stat fed by 3 wires and then upgraded it to a digi stat which only needed 2 wires - he should have connected the perm live and switch live to the new digi stat but instead...

I'm in Elecsa - any jobs i submit get processed every tuesday by Elecsa who then send out the building control certificate which the client should receive within a few days. I can check online the status of the certificate i.e. submitted, certificate sent to client. The sparky who did your...

Sat in my van today (vauxhall combo 02) and locked it whilst i was sitting in it, and found out that the locks dont deadlock. So any smackhead can pop my front windows and open the whole van by pulling the door lock up :? What a c_rappy design!!! If i disable the central locking i wont be...

I've got a vansafe bolted to the chassis where all my expensive tools go, cage bulkhead and one of those van locks on the back doors (no windows). The only weak point is the side sliding door :? At least if they did get into the back all the main tools are in the vansafe If they smash the...

Cheers for the help guys - i feel much more confident with it now - from your info and the info on http://www.melimatic.com i've learnt alot :wink:

the stopcock turns a few turns before tightening up but it doesnt stop the flow of water. I'll try fixing it 1st using the info you guys gave but failing that i'm planning to isolate the water from outside using the stopcock in the street and cut this stopcock out with a hacksaw and replace it...

just found a pic of the same stopcock - except i dont know if its got the handle on the left http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa10/peter999_photos/pic6-DSCF5957.jpg can this be cutout quite easily and repaced with a leadlock stopcock?

An elderly pentioner has a seized stopcock, its extremely old as i've never seen one like it so i presume its got lead pipe connected to it. the stopcock is embedded in the wall just above floor height so to replace it is going to be extremely difficult as it is as the wall is going to need to...