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Sorry force of habit - I meant equipotential bonding... working in the public electronics sector requires everything to be bonded to a common earthing point, hence just force of habit to say earth bonding. Obviously the last thing I want to do is bond my bath tub to earth which could be at any...

how about if i keep the swept t slightly lower down the stack so i come out of the wall into an elbow that then angles down at about 45 degrees and use about 400mm of pipe to mate with the swept t?

so it wouldn't be a good idea to cut the stack and fit a 45 degree to crank it over then run along for about 1 metre at 45 degs then another 45 degree section to straighten up again and run the rest of the stack vertically up from here?

I’m just checking the earth bonding in my bathroom.... There are two copper pipes coming into the bathroom for hot and cold water. These then connect to plastic pipes, and every connection to a tap or shower after that is by plastic pipe. We have a stainless steel bath, with chrome mixer...

Hi All, I'm refitting my bathroom and taking the opportunity to change things about a bit. What this has meant is the WC has now moved diagonally from one corner of the room to the other. At present the soil pipe goes straight out through the outside wall, turns left and runs along the...

I take a great deal of offense to this. My work is never cobbled, I have build my company up over 25 years building electrical, electronic and digital control systems an the associated software. My customers come back to me year in year out because of a) the service we give b)our attention to...

Well they illumnate large car display stands easily, these are pretty serious illumnation modules! so yeah no problems. I design and build automations systems such as lighting systems, or a rotating gantry that holds a car upside down, placement systems etc... as such I have an interest in...

They are CE marked... That is a requirement to be able to legally sell them... hence they have passed EMC testing and Low Voltage Directive testing, as well as various other tests. What about if I just plug it into an existing 3 pin mains outlet? Which is how it is designed to work...

Interesting... As an aside what about if I decide to fit my own design of multicolour LED down lights, these use standard down light style housings, along with ultra high intensity LEDS, which are hermetically bonded into them, with a sealed diffusing lens. We have also designed special...

I am planning on fitting a new plasterboard ceiling in my bathroom and thought I would take the opportunity to replace the ageing lights. I would like to fit 4 x low voltage downlights each with an individual transformer that will be concealed within the loft. As these are low voltage and...

I have a baxi duo tec 28 that has been working well for 3 years, but recently developed a leak, that turned out to be a loose connector and baxi fixed it. Now however it seem to be loosing pressure taking about 5 Hours to go from 1 Bar to E119 code (i think its this code - low pressure). It...

if the roof structure is strong enough to withstand the weight of all those slates for the last 130 years surely adding a few sheets of plasterboard to the underisde spread accros the entire area isn't going to make much difference? I have spoken to a retired architect about this and he...

sorry that was the dimension of the roof timber rafter. I am unsure how big the eaves are, they dont look huge or small, kind of normal...

I'm not at home at the moment but just look at my stick of inches i would say they are between 3 and 4 inches thick by 6 inches deep. I would like to use it as a studio, so i need to think about sound proofing to a certain extent and also acoustic performance within the space itself. So any...

yes I had heard that you can / should run a further set of insulation over the top of everything... but as I am not using it as a room for 'living' in I may not bother... I need to try and keep the cost down. Do you know how thick the kingspan was? Was it expensive? How much air gap...

The floor will be tiled. So I mount the flex out let in the bathroom above the floor and make the connection to T&E cable here which i then run under the floor to the switch located outside? What happens if water runs down the wall (which will be tiled) onto the outlet and enters it?

great thank you! I am planning in cutting back all of the metal pipes before they enter the bathroom and replacing them with plastic. So there will be plastic feeds for hot & cold water as well as bath, sink & toilet wastes. The plastic 'extensions' on the hot & cold feeds will be about...

I am fitting a new bathroom, which will consist of a stainless steel bath, chrome plated taps, shower etc... I will be using polyplumb plastic pipes and fittings. Obviously I need to earth bond all of these items, what is the best way to do this? Do i need to tie anything down to earth...

I am fitting heated towel rail into my new bathroom. Obviously I will be getting the correct building regulations and ensuring it and everything else is correctly bonded out. The cable from the heater element is quite short, maybe about 2 feet long. I would like to fit the switch to activate...

I have recently moved to a new house where some work has been carried out in the loft. This includes moving and reinforcing the roof supports, strengthening the floor joists, flooring and fitting a velux window. Infact pretty much a complete loft conversion except there is no staircase to go up...