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Agree with the above, it's probably not a risk. However, if you are still concerned you could take a sample and send it off for analysis. Costs under £50 I believe.

Screwfix also do Leyland with free delivery. Similar cost from what I recall.

Battery electric are only suitable for teeny tiny gardens. They struggle with window boxes. For quarter of an acre you probably want a medium sized petrol mower. Easier if you get a self propelled one. Honda or B&S engines are both superb and will give you no problems. The only questionable...

Cat litter left on it for a day.

As you say it faded out and then came back again, I'm thinking it's most likely to be a poor connection in the lead, or the connector - and the pull on the lead caused the power to be cut momentarily. As you've swapped extension cables, we can probably rule out a fault with them but the...

Just refit the whole bathroom! Complete new suite for £200, cheaper if you find one of B&Q's on offer. Hardly worth refinishing, unless you especially have a fetish for an enamel bath (many, women especially, prefer plastic as it's warmer on the bum). You could probably sell the cast iron...

Knowing a little how committees work, I would advise both an advisory on your work notice, and also a letter outlining the exact area, extent of damage and possible consequences (as others have detailed above) - with photo of the damage - sent with it. The photo is a superb tool for explaining...

The best way (I think) is to run cat5 to every point you think you'll need, whether it's tv, speaker, phone, control point. You can do the lot at once if you're building or decorating soon, or a little at a time as you feel like it. Terminate each run of cat5 to a central point - cupboard...

No. Bare lead.

You didn't mention anything about it looking nice! Bubble wrap, plenty of it! It's what's used for polytunnels and greenhouses, looks fugly but traps air and it pretty good insulation. Cheap, easily put up and (when somebody complains about how horrible it looks) easy to take down. Doesn't...

Well, maybe. The usb repeaters, self powered, are often borderline. Can you not fit a normal £5 powered usb hub at the 5m mark? If there's no powered sockets handy, extend the low voltage feed into the hub and tape it along the first usb lead. Even if it's a bit ugly, you can get smaller...

Erm - sort the leak out and try again?

A tip I've learned is to stuff a bit of toilet roll up the pipe. It shows water very well, and dissolves if it gets seriously wet or falls into the tank so won't get sucked into anything or cause problems.

BAS - that /was/ kind of what I was asking, if there was a way they could be adapted to work properly. Throwing away a grands worth of pressure washers because somebody bought the wrong ones is not a path I'm willing to take, so we'll carry on swapping fuses and ensure the same mistake is...

Why would it have been filled in? Seems odd to lose what is a critical area for a pub without good reason. Filling with sand would seem strange too, expensive and time consuming if all was needed was to tile over a hatch? Flooding? Buried spouses? Ghosts? There's often a hatch down to...

Cost. It's intended to be used in a wide variety of locations, all of which are fitted with 13a sockets (the MK weatherseal ones) To add 16a sockets in enough places to allow it to be used would cost several thousand. Not a Karcher - I forget the manufacturer. Both blue and red bodies.

Thanks for the detailed reply. They cost about 500ukp each, so well beyond the hobby range, but obviously short of economic changing. (Wouldn't replacing the motor with a smaller one work out cheaper than this anyway, or is that too simplistic a view?) This is clearly beyond my electronic...

Thanks guys, you've confirmed what I've thought. :( We actually have two of these units, both about three years old, and they've behaved in the same way from new - so I don't think they do have a fault as such. They are pat tested every six months. The piston ending up at TDC is an...

I do wonder if BG engineers get commission for sales following visits? I have a very low opinion of BG as a company - although some of their engineers are very good. The price difference for a like-for-like boiler replacement by BG and a local independent is quite often staggering. (4.5k for...

We have a pressure washer which although sold for connection to a household supply has a motor of (I think) about 3300 watts. According to my maths, this works out at just under 14 amps. We're using a fused, wired RCD on the lead with a 13 amp fuse. It works okay, but every now and then...