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Ah, my edges will be 30-odd degrees and the pointy remainder, smoothed. As for dangerous- well, who'll be fuddicking about in there other than ME? The person who cleans out the soot and ashes?! Thanks for the advice, all!

Thanks- so you'd imagine that a glass merchant would have the kit to do this? I wouldn't attempt it myself, but I was wondering if it were actually technically possible to do it!

Need something to go on the (pale stone, textured and impossible to keep clean) hearth below and in front of a domestic inset wood burning stove on fixed, inbuilt legs (ie it cannot be lifted to slide something underneath). A T shape where the long bit slides in underneath and the cross bit...

Well, at the plumbing suppliers, the elbows came out of the box marked '22mm'! I saw the box the bloke took them out of myself. They have '22' stamped on them. http://www.gwsupplies.co.uk/p/5409/endfeed+obtuse+elbow+22mm+copper+fitting.htm If you look at this picture, or any of the...

I have a straight 22mm copper downpipe on the outside of the 2 storey house (an overflow). It comes out of the eaves and stops 6" short of the paving. To fit a lean-to greenhouse, I have to divert the pipe via 2 'end feed obtuse elbow' joins, so the pipe will head down, be diverted at 45...

Thanks- I get it now!

My mother's house was recently assessed for electrical safety. The report said she needed to replace a couple of wall and ceiling lights but they need to be 'dual insulated'. What does that mean? Can any light be dual insulated or do you have to source special ones? She also will be getting...

Because they are opened and closed perhaps 15 times an hour at peak and a 7 year old cannot be expected to be able to reach let alone operate sticky bolts. The doors get closed in this weather to keep the heat in the living room. Now, any ideas?

10 year old estate house, 6 panel moulded doors throughout: We have a double door dividing our 2 living rooms, like French windows (but with no glass!). You close them using an ordinary latch bolt into a strike plate/push down handle arrangement and a top mounted slider bolt up into the...

Well, he was working on an 10 year old existing installation ie no room for manoeuvre! The boiler is fixed to where it's fixed; the vent pipe takes the line through the brickwork originally knocked so I doubt he could overcome the 'fall' problem that easily- or could he?

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When the last lot of snow melted, the water ran down into the boiler vent on the outside garage wall and flooded the boiler (10 yr old Potterton in the garage). The marvellous rescuing plumber has managed to realign the fall of the vent pipe a bit to hopefully reduce the possibility of a...

It's not looking good for our boiler which failed during last night- pool of water beneath it this morning- I expect the heat exchanger may have ruptured when it froze.. am awaiting the coroner's report! What should I be looking at as a replacement? We have a 4 bedroom detached 10 year old...

I bet it's the heat exchanger that's split (':cry:')

This morning I came down and found the heating wasn't on, no pilot light- and a pool of water underneath the wall mounted garage situated unit, still dripping from beneath the unit. It has been -5 here on occasion (southern hampshire!). The indicator lights are on ie there's power to it and by...

Hi Ikea don't say anything about being dimmable! It comes with the usual 'cartoon' instructions- it was the bloke who fitted it who said that BUT I'm not sure he really knew! He flicked through the cartoon book and hmmed. Surely it's the BULBS that dictate dimmability, the fitting is only...

We have had an Ikea Tidig light installed http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20160766 which has 6 of the above halogen lights installed but which apparently can't be dimmed on a dimmer. The reality is the end result is too bright...! Can I replace all the bulbs with the next...

I am a CH and HW numpty. We had a Megaflo installed in the loft about 6 months ago. At first, the HW gushed copiously from the bath tap. Husband has nipped into the loft now and then and has tweaked the tap to the required level (is is about 1? Just over?)- but now the HW pressure is no...

Just having 2 large rooms celing skimmed. The plasterer has left without telling me what to do next! He said it was going off very quickly by which I assume he means it was drying faster than he'd perhaps expected. Would I be right in thinking I shouldn't put the heating back on in those...

Sorry, trying to get gist in the few characters you're allowed! I need to 're-light' the dim lounge. It's 6m x 4m. Plan is to retain single central ceiling light on one switch, but to add 4 'wall washer/uplighter' wall lights 2 each on each of the long walls, running off 2 separate poss...