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My ground floor flat has a small patio, with a concrete base that very cunningly lifts at the edges and pools water up against the wall. I would like to take the edges off & remaining tiling adhesive before laying a new layer of concrete to provide a slope away from the building. What's...

Coming back to this post after a while. I did manage to find some companies manufacturing likely replacement parts. There's Gira (in Germany), Polytron broadband systems and hirschmann (in Germany). All found by spending time using google. Search for MATV throughpass sockets, MATV...

I've been doing some remeidal work on the balcony attached to my ground floor flat. Now that I look at it closer, I see that the previous owners raised the slab level by ~ 2" and then tiled it, leaving the top surface ~ 1.5" below the DPC. Considerable less than the recommended 150mm (~...

Thanks all. you've given me something to work with and now I know what I'll be up to tomorrow. I'll try taking the reamins of the boxes off, and then expanding foam I think - as its quicker setting than hardwall.

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Sorry, I've not been very clear. Each room has its own thermostat inline with the electric heater for that room. There are three radial heating circuits from the CU, each rated at 16A : 1) Lounge 2) Kitchen & hallway 3) Bedrooms 1 & 2 I've elected to replace each of the original...

OK. my mistake for assuming a ring. It'll be a tap off system with a powered distribution system - when the power was out to the communal areas the other day, I had no TV signal. No obvious markings on the backplate. There's the manufacturers name - Antiference, a very difficult to...

Been fitting new thermostats to my flat. In a couple of cases this means working round the old circular backboxes (some metal, some plastic but all mounted on conduit) with imperial screw fittings & in some cases said screw fittings in completely the wrong place. Just dug out the wall...

In trying to reduce the interference I sometimes I recieve with my freeview box, I have replaced my cabling and now want to replace the TV socket. I live in a flat, and the existing socket would appear to be a spur off a ring. ie when I look in the backbox there are two cables attached to...