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We currently have a Fluorescent tube light in the kitchen (it's a T8, White 58W , 5Ft tube). It's suddenly started to glow dimmer. So first question is is it the tube or somehting else? Next question is that the Kitchen is typically quite dark as it has no external windows, is it ok to...

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It's a Triton ..(is that a make?)

Hi, The Shower in our bathroom which runs from the hot water cylinder just like the bath & basin only seems to run tepid or luke warm. If you adjust the tempertaure to be cold you get cold, but turn it back to hot and it's luke warm. It's just started to happen, and nothing has been...

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My daugters room is above the garage and very cold in the winter. Is it ok to use normal wool type loft insulation under her floor? The type of insulation I bought was called space blanket and encloses the wool type stuff in a big plastic/foil bag. I bought it and then read on the package...

I have a wall on which I'd like to hang a heavy framed picture, which has a pice of string going from one side to the other for hanging. It's a masionary wall, but has wood panel effect board hung on it using vertical studs(can't find any horizental studs). So a few questions: 1. What...

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I've had my heating system for about 18 months and after about 15 months my room thermostat stopped working, it seemed to be the mechanical part and the stat only clicks near max temp and turns the heating on. So I replaced it and now six months later the same thing has happpened. Is there...

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Thanks I'll take a look. Regarding my question about the p-trap, s-trap roughing-in distance, what does this mean?

I'm at the moment ripping out the old cloakroom suite downstairs and replacing it. I'm searching for a new suite and have come a cross terms I'm not familiar with. Also th wate pipe goes through the ground. So in this context on Specs for WC Pans wold does the following mean What is a...

Thanks. I understand now.

So there is no difference in what they do? (i.e. allow you to stop the flow to chnage a tap etc..), they look the same but one costs more than the other.

...a service valve and an isolatiing valve? Are they they same thing?

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I'm currently redoing the downstairs cloakroom and have stripped off the cieling paper. There is a black slimy greasy mould in one corner(probably from when there was previously a leak). What is the best way to remove and cleanup the mould?

I'm at the moment replacing the ground floor cloakroom suite. The suite that I am ripping out is a low level wc, and I wanted to replace it with a Close coupled wc. Since the WC waste pipe goes out of the back of the WC and into the ground, the location of it would mean that a close coupled WC...

Thanks for your help. Job done. I eventualy got the following slice from ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-18-20-22mm-ALL-IN-ONE-COPPER-PIPE-SLICE-CUTTER_W0QQitemZ320042474720QQihZ011QQcategoryZ3191QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Couldn't believe how easy it is to cut pipes with...

Thanks to everyone who posted for their help. (in particular softus & sime10), the differing points of views were invaluable for a novice like myself. After reading all the posts I had planned to just close the main stop and drain the system as it would have been probably less agro all round...