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Hi everyone. I want to do a cold water run in 15mm polyplumb pipe, but am worried about the pushfit fittings coming apart. I intended to use copper compression fittings with copper olives. Anyone have any experience in this area? cheers

cheers softus. My dad said tie it to the towing eye on my car and gently pull it out. Then he hastilly retracted the idea when my mrs showed her disapproval. Any thoughts?

Hi all. Hope you are all well. I have just cut this eyesore juniper bush down in my front garden and now I have a stump sticking out of the ground about 10 ins high. The bush itself was about 4 feet in diameter I suppose. Does that give any indication to the extent of the root system...

Not sure about that. Have you contacted candy? They might be able to throw some light on the subject.

Check if there's someone on your roof pouring wet sand down your chimney? How long as this been going on? not since christmas by any chance? :wink: Is there a bird caught in there? dislodging loose and crumbling mortar?

how long is the cable run? Voltage drop has to be taken into consideration. I'd probably go for 2.5 in any case. that way I can add more floodlights later on if I want.

you can either go into the loft and tie up the ball valve and then leave the tap running to drain the tank before changing the washers, or you can turn the supply off at the mains and then run the taps till the tank is empty. Depends which is easier. I'd say turn it off at the mains, but I...

3 meters is a fair distance to ask that little fan to blow all that smoke/steam. Why dont you try a recirculating one with carbon filters. The only drawback is remembering to change the filter periodically.

drill through the back of the existing box and mount a second switch outside? connect using 3 and earth in the same configuration as an upstairs landing light controlled from downstairs hallway? You can also get infra red activated lightswitches with a little remote control.

The element would only draw the current it was designed to draw ie. 8amps (2000W) - so in other words, you shouldn't overload the new element. I'd have just thought that it might take a fraction longer to get to cooking temp. Maybe Candy changed the specs since they made your oven. Having...

sizing seals the pourous surface of the plaster and stops it soaking up the paste before it gets a chance to dry. When this happens the paper may start to peel. I'd say mix up the paste and then dilute it by 50% with water. paint it on and leave it till it feels dry. This depends on how...

Hi Ryanna, 1. well you can screw them - drill small pilot holes and then screw using self tapping screws. The downside to this is that you obviously make holes in your door which is something I wouldn't want to do if there was another way. 2. You could try no more nails. (theres one by...

i would imagine venting into a chimney would be to much of a distance for a normal extractor to blow air for. you could consider a re-circulating hood wwhich filters the ait and doesnt need a vent pipe.

could be air in the system. try bleeding the rads. if you have air in them, you had best check the pressure gauge on boiler (assuming you have a combi boiler?) as if there was a lot of air let out, the central heating circuit pressure may drop below operating level and you'll have to top up...

indesits remember where they were in the program and you try to manually move it in it will return itself back to where it left off. with the machine off, turn the dial to the dot at the end of the program. turn the machine on for about 10 secs. and turn off again. this should reset it...

Phil, I had a leaking mains stopcock which leaked at only 2-3 drips per minute and in 4 days it had soaked though the kitchen wall and started to remove the walpaper in the front room along its entire length so i's reckon its entirely possible. cure the leak in the gutter and see how you go...

makes sense. cheers.

I got it out. it turned out to be a 6mm allen bolt. However my epic journey came to an end when I realised there was 1 last bolt behind the water pump pulley and I think the allen bolts holding that on were done up by Geoff capes and I ended up rounding out 2 of the 3 bolt holes. I'm gonna...

Neo, hope you can help here. I am having trouble gettingthe lower timing belt cover off. There seems to be a 10mm nut roughly in the middle that is is in the bottom of a recess. However, the external diameter of my 10mm socket is too wide to fit into the hole. The 9mm goes in, but obviously is...

cheers guys. Amazing - I went on a VW forum and strugglet to get anyreplies. came on this trusty old site and got loads! So in effect taking the rocker cover off is just toi make viewing the timing mark easier and if I line up the camshaft timing notch on the back with the surface of the head...