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Im looking to buy the Machine Mart DIY sandblasting cabinet, and a compressor (links below) to suit. The blaster cabonet requires 10CFM @ 8 Bar. However the compressors I am looking at or in my budget seem to stop at 9.5CFM with 8 Bar. Obviousley its slightly underpowered for the cabinets...

Tried disconnecting battery running in mains alone.....same thing happens. Do these rely on having A battery in permanently

We have a concept alarm with a remote keypad fitted. This morning while disarming. After pressing the last digit. All leds started all flashing and buzzing noises came from the master panel.....apologies for lack of info that's all I have been told at the moment. Any ideas chaps

Our Patio has a couple of loose flags and needs re-grouting as its all either washed or worn away.... what should I be using to re-lay the loose flags, simply a sand and cement mix ? And what is the best method of re-grouting the whole patio, I think originally a dry mix of sand/cement was...

Please excuse my nievity, Im looking to install a basic CCTV system at our Property, mainly to watch over the vehicles parked on the drive. The rear of the Property is quite secure and not generally accesible unless accessed through the front so a simple two camera system would be fine. However...

I quite a lot of AV equipment in a closed cupboard that Id like to turn off when the actual TV is in standby, My question being, do these energy saving multi plug sockets work with TV's switching in and out of standby, ie: will the socket see the TV go into standby and therefore switch the other...

I think Doggit is right, there seem only to be studs every 4ft but the TV is going close to the wall, and not on an extending bracket. Great aadvice chaps thanks, much appreciated....

Upstairs the interior walls are what I call eggboard, Im afraid i dont know the correct name, its two sheets of 1/2" plasterboard with a cardboard honeycomb pattern in between, whilst its great for dropping cables down im not sure it can support anything except picture frames ,Can anyone tell me...

Great advice thank you.

I have bought a new oak TV corner unit and placed the sound bar on the higher of two shelves, however the soundbar is actually slightly wider than the front apeture so about an inch of either side is blocked by the front of the unit. So wherever I place the soundbar inside the unit, it sounds...

No, one stat controls the whole house.......

We had a pressure vessel (big red thing) fitted to our C/H system last month, its a Condensing Worcester Greenstar 24i (non combi) that has pumped H/W and C/H, We came to put the heating on the other night and none of the radiators work upstairs. I have turned off the downstairs ones and set the...

Can anyone direct me to a good website that has good looking fonts to download that contain both letters and numbers......Even better does anyone know of a website that has colourfull letters and numbers (as jpegs) to download. We are trying to create a message for printing on a T Shirt, but...

Yes sorry its a RCCB, Its a make I havent seen before, called Aoelec, the A is a Delta symbol. A single 20A CB feeds the kitchen/cons/garage hence my mentioning the load, I do realise that RCD's trip for inbalance etc and not load. As it was my first brief look, I started with the garage wiring...

The inlaws have a secondary RCD protected 1 way board that feeds their conservatory,small kitchen and garage supply, but the 40A 30mA RCD is randomly tripping out usually overnight with little load. I have had a quick look around, and removed a couple of covers but all "seems" in order, My...

great advice thanks guys!!!

My bath taps are now getting loose and have a poor "action" so sto speak, So im going to replace the inserts....Firstly are these new ceramic quarter turn taps the way forward, and are they a straight swap for the older rubber washer type insert (bearing in mind the dimensions match). Secondly...

I have been asked to fit some flush celing downlights in a bathroom, apparentley thay are ip65 rated, which makes them suitable for the bathroom enviroment, is this correct? Also the loftspace above the celing is freshly insulated with thick insulation. What do you proffesional chaps fit these...

going to have a look tomorrow..cheers for the advice!!

the light part of a Ventaxia luminaire IP57 light and fan unit is not working, the fan runs but with no light. I havent been to the house yet, but they have tried several new lamps (12V 35W) with no success, has anyone any experience of these. My first thought would be the transformer has gone...