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I thing what he is trying to say is: People that advertise as being plumbers and heating engineers that charge standard rate per hour, £140quid for example, 1 hour fixing a boiler yes charge £140, but 1 hour fixing a toilet for £140, bit OTT! i could fix a toilet and yes im a docker lol :D...

Yes i will be using 22mm pipe from boiler and have 15mm running off to rad's, also 22mm going upstairs and 15mm to rads again! Cheers for saying plan was good, took me a good hour, haha :D :D

Right lads after some research and getting a plumber who is willing to fit boiler, gas meter, etc after! I have done a rough plan on the computer of pipe work etc, want to know what you think and any mistakes you see: Like i say its only a rough one, also still unsure weather to use...

As said, from the start all i'm thinking of doing is running and fitting the pipes for rads and hanging rads, at no point did i say i wanna fit the boiler or muck about with gas what so ever!! Some very good, helpful replys, i have had a mate of mate round who is a plumber to also give me...

tube is gone, it was rusted to bits and most of it fell off! i have got some metal tubing in the loft which should do the job?

The earth rod is, the cable was in a metal tube underneath the old concrete path!

its about 5mm thinkness if that helps. Trust my mate to work away the week i need him

I leave it then, sounds safer haha, yes its all being updated as soon as i get the money to do so

Yes there another meter above that, a clock style one! :D

Thats the only pic i got at the mo, as im not living there. Yes it is overhead power supply. Complete re-wire, new CU, all updated,etc is on the list of things to do, just getting round to it. Getting drive done, then a interal wall being knocked down, then its electric's or plumbing!

I thought this was a D.I.Y. forum! :D :D I just looking into it, i came on here for help and i'm reading all the reply's, i've always said i will any thing ago once aand if i muck it up i will have to get someone who knows what their. I do agree with diy_darren when he said "but I...

Here's a pic of all the fuse boxes, Yes there out of date and yes it is going to be re-wired.....

Opps sorry, wrong thing cant remember what it is now, i know his highly qualifed tho

Im not sure, he said he can do i when he had a look at the electric's, his more qualified than you have to be for part p, so guessing he knows what his going on about

through the electric supply or something along this lines!

Cheers mate, im just research pipe layouts, etc and then think more carefully about it!

Getting the path down the side of my house block pathed, so rung my mate to come and wire up the earth the new way of doing it, so i can remove the rod and old cable. This is where my prob starts his away till next thursday, path getting starting friday.... Can i remove the rod and leave it...

I have thought about this, on long runs of pipes i was going to run along with the rafters to cut down on the notching them out, as the ceilings are down, upstairs can be done without removing alot of the floorboards, maybe near to where i want the rad's, etc I understand its not just about...

I was thinking of the wrong one then, there is on the government does, i will have to look into this one!

Thank you, a helpful reply, i have had a look at a few diagrams and it does seem quite simple once you get your head around them. I will be re-plumbing the outside toilet as a bit of a practice at soldering etc!