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Just a bit of advice for anyone needing building control permission. I recently put in a woodburner and was a bit worried about getting BC in to check it. I spent a lot of time reading the building regs and followed them carefully taking my time getting everything spot on. I am a fairly...

I have oiled beech worktops which are fine apart from a small patch about 4'' square which always looks dull despite repeated oiling. I cannot really supply a photo as it is only visible when the sun is on it at a certain angle. It looks to me as though the grain is 'open' but as I am not an...

Anyone any thoughts on this. I need to glue aluminium strips around the cut face of a fireplace aluminium to marble. What glue would you use? Thinking maybe high temp silicon. I asume NMN would crack too easily. All advice greatfully received. BOB

Thanks for all your help. Particularly John. Have now got an adjustable s.steel piece of pipe from the stove manufacturers that twists to all angles very useful but very expensive. Anyhow works well and only ended up with about 20degree angle. Just a final qestion what do you all think is the...

Thanks for those replies. I think a bend of some sort is the way to go just a couple of question to any of you knowledgeable people. 1. Is there a minimum height above the stove you can put in a bend. I know 45 degrees is the max angle in part J but cannot find a height. 2. is a flexible liner...

Any help would be much appreciated. I am installing a multifuel stove 4 KW. Chimney is clay lined and house only 20 years old. Bulilding control have advised no liner needed asth flue is in excellent condition. Now th problem. The flue is not central with the fireplace and is in fact...

I bought a new toaster 6 weeks ago. Have never had an RCD tripping problem but now when the lever on the toaster is pressed down the main RCD trips. This does not happen every time but sometimes also happens when the toast pops up. I would just normally replace the toaster but the b.....dy thing...

Need a bit of advice. I have a lean to greehouse next to my garage wall. I intend putting a small 1kw greenhouse heater in there and would like to know can I 1. simply run the cable from the heater through a hole in the wall into the garage and plug into existing socket via RCD. Or do I need...

Any electronics experts out there. I purchased a friedland chime 6 months ago pretty expensive should work up to 200 metres. Unfortunately it is totally unreliable. Sometimes it just does not work at all. However if I take off the bell push remove the battery and leave it a bit then put the...

Any help from sparkys would be appreiacted. I am removing an electric shower which is defunct and replacing by a mixer(NO ELECTRICS OR PUMP involved). Is best practice to remove the MCB feeding the shower or just to turn it off and isolate the cabling. I assume the former is the correct way...

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posting this again to see if anyone has any ideas if changing the prog does not work. Need to sort tomorrow as the OH will go spare if the heating is off over Xmas. Can see me down at B & Q for a couple of heaters. Suggested to her we have a bonfire Xmas day. Bet you can guess what the reply was...

Thanks for that offer Parkymike if I can't get from local merchants will contact you again. I am not sure it the programmer.This is the scenario. This afternoon the heating decided to only come on only when the hot water was turned on on the programmer. It would not come on by itself. Thermostat...

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Programmer packed up today. No water or CH ordered a new one but mey not come until after XMAS. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to hot wire the terminals to temporarily keep the heating and water running. If so which terminals(marked 1-8 on the baseboard. Otherwise maybe a cold XMAS any...

Yes thanks will try tomorrow as its not too cold tonight. I do a lot of DIY and just thought it may be easy just as a purely temp measure to hot wire, but I really do not want to mess with the terminals without knowing which to wire together.

Programmer packed up today. No water or CH ordered a new one but mey not come until after XMAS. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to hot wire the terminals to temporarily keep the heating and water running. If so which terminals(marked 1-8 on the baseboard. Otherwise maybe a cold XMAS any...

Need a bit of help. I want to wire some kitchen unit lights in and need to know if it is acceptable to DIY or need to get somenoe in. There will be 4 lights with transformer. Can I simply use an existing plug socket and switch or wire it as a spur from an existing socket and fit a switch...