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Not sure if this should be posted in electricians forum so apologies in advance. I am a qualified plumber. This is in my own house and will be implemented by a qualified electrician under my instruction. I have a thermal store designed and installed by myself. Off of the thermal store I have...

Not sure if this should be posted in electricians forum so apologies in advance. I am a qualified plumber. I have a thermal store designed and installed by myself. Off of the thermal store I have a radiator circuit, flow and return,which takes heated water from the store independent from any...

I am a CIPHE registered plumber builder. I need to buy a Baxi Duo tec Combi. Plumbfix have got one but wont let me buy it , not being Gas Safe. However I am plumbfix a/c holder. They have informed me that if I can get a Gas Safe engineer to order, I can then use the order no. to pay seperately...

Ive installed some mdpe, and I have used a polyplast 25 mm MDPE stop tap fitting. It seems to be leaking. I have had it apart cleaned it and refitted it but it still leaks. I can only guess that Ive overtightened it. Is there any way I can salvage the fitting now this has happened, i.e. could I...

Looking for a combi boiler for small flat I'm building. Consumer magazine Which considers the Baxi Duo-tec 24 HE to be its bets buy. However I see that the Biasi Riva Compact 24HE is about £200 cheaper. Anybody think of anyreason why i shouldnt go for the BIasi or BAxi, or which is better...

We have this set up: From the Public road a sheathed (x two L + N) 16mm cable comes up from ground onto the side of my neighbours building (detached pub) it runs along his building unsheathed to the back of his property and then overhead in 16mm to the front gable of my other neighbour whose...

I have a supply of stored rainwater.I want to take a supply from the roof outlet (40mm) to use as a grey water supply to my loo. The head of water will be no more than 2m. Is there any reason why I cant run the supply to the isolation valve before the cistern ballvalve in 40/32mm plastic solvent...

When designing a circuit is their any advantage or disadvantage in creating more mains ring circuits than necessay. For example, putting the kitchen on seperate circuit, living room on seperate circuit and bedrooms on seperate circuit. Would it be wise to putpumps and heating controls on...

How realistic is 16kw consumption for a 1 1/2 bed granny flat assuming 3 ring mains 2 lighting circuits. Small kitchen with electric cooker and tumble dryer washing machine etc. Gas CH and HW. To calculate power consumption in this case do I just add up all my KW ratings of all appliances...

I am looking at running a seperat sub metered consumer unit in a granny flat. Ive found a cable size calculator on the TLC electrical supplies page here...

I have built an extension which incorperates a seperate'granny' flat. I have wired the lighting and mains circuit and now wish to connect it all up at the consumer unit. My intention is to connect this consumer unit to the original house consumer unit using armoured cable (twin cored) It will...