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    External boiler?

    Hi all and thanks for the replies, computer been down for a while and only just managed to get back online. In answer to some of the questions: Yes we have a carbon monoxide detector in the room which constantly reads zero, and has never moved off zero since it was fitted when we moved in...
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    External boiler?

    Been out the plumbing game for some time now. Can you buy an external gas fired wall mounted boiler? The reason i ask is the house we are in now has a wall mounted boiler in our bedroom, and we are both getting migraines, which i presume would be down to the boiler, could be wrong but i...
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    Question on connecting lamp holders

    Excellent, appreciate that. I already have some sound to light screens and i just need a few constants, hence me building some for a fraction of the cost of buying new. Cheers buddy ;)
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    Question on connecting lamp holders

    Hi, I am currently making some Disco lighting screens. I want to connect 4 lamp holders inside the boxes i have made and then fit coloured 60w or 100w lamps inside. Option 1: Can i wire the lamp holders all together and just put one 13amp plug on. Or Option 2: Will i have to put one...
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    Foundation depth?

    Ive dug down to the hard clay, hit it about 500mm deep so i will stop there. I'm gonna fill it in with concrete at the weekend. The building is to store my disco equipment in, i have a shed for the greenfly killer ;) I'm not going to touch the mound in the middle until i pour in the...
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    Foundation depth?

    You are a star, thanks alot.
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    Foundation depth?

    Hi, I'm going to dig out a foundation to build a small "brick built" shed about (approx 6ft x 4ft) in my garden. The ground is clay and i have a large Leyland conifer tree about 1 metre away from the new build. I have crawled the net and this site but am confused on a safe depth for the...
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    how safe to remove an earth wire?

    No earth switch, it is a decent amp though. Now i have more of an idea i will experiment. Cheers guys.
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    how safe to remove an earth wire?

    I appreciate all help here. Ok, i have done what you have suggested and the humming stops also when i disconnect my 2 mixing desk leads that input into the back of the amp? Is there any solution to stop this?, would a a ground loop isolator work on these leads?, would bonding the cases...
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    how safe to remove an earth wire?

    hi, I have a seperate 750 watt amplifier which is powering 700 watt speakers. The problem i have is the amplifier is making a loud buzzing noise through the speakers when turned up even if there is nothing playing through it. Now, if i remove the earth wire from the plug off the amp it is...
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    usb drivers

    Are you running on Windows 98 ?
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    Two computers, one broadband, ones slow but the others okay!

    look at the specs, you just answered your own question.
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    Wireless

    Buy a wireless router not a card.
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    Windows has blocked some startup programmes . . .

    click on start and look in your programs and find "startup", remove the items from start up and it should go away.
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    Please help

    Try defragmenting the PC, it often helps :wink:
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    Connecting to soil pipe

    It looks like asbestos cement (can't say for sure), not pure asbestos. If so, it is only dangerous when you create dust. Where dust is likely to be generated (sawing, drilling) use a water spray to damp down any dust. Have a good vacuum of the area of work immediately afterwards too, and of...
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    single pipe central heating

    Turn some of the other rads temporarly off until the cold rad gets hot, then in turn, turn the others back on.
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    leaking toilet

    Had same problem last year, fitted a loo and the customer had me back wice for leaks (only nothing was leaking), they had a young son and i thought in the back of my mind he was peeing on the floor, it turned out the trap at the porcelaine base of the toilet had a minute hairline crack which...
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