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    Fire resistant light under a steel

    Hadn't seen them before. Had a look and all the ones I've found look like they would be a bit too big and I don't know how I would get them on the other side of the hole?!?
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    Fire resistant light under a steel

    Hi, I've sold my house and had to get the building inspector round to do a final check on a steel we had put in 2 years ago which we thought was done but wasn't. Our electrician put in some small spot lights running along the steel. We had the building inspector round today who said that the...
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    Slow flow wall mounted bath taps

    Hi, I'm putting in a new bathroom and have just finished putting in the bath and I put in wall mounted bath taps. The flow of water coming out was awful and I've now read up a bit more and found out that they probably aren't suitable for a gravity fed system because they need a higher...
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    can a boiler go in a cupboard?

    thanks for the answer re the instructions. unfortunatly its an old boiler with no instructions. im aware that its not a price comparison site. i was hoping that someone would have given me an indication that was all. if someone said "oh thats easy it wont cost much at all" or "thats a massive...
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    Silver Trowel plastering courses

    i did a course very similer to the 10 day course. i found the first week was very basic but did give you the knowledge to reskim a wall. i'm glad i did the second week as it goes into more depth. at the end of the course i could plaster to a basic level and very slowly!! i then did loads of...
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    can a boiler go in a cupboard?

    hi, my parents have just moved into a new house and im going to put a new kitchen in soon. at the moment the boiler is on a wall the will be coming down so its got to be moved. we want to put it in the airing cupboard which is about 18" away from its current location. its a large cupboard, floor...
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    shower pump with a bath/shower mixer

    hi, im just about to start my bathroom ive bought a shower/bath mixer tap and i wanted to put in a pump. ive done a bit of plumbing before so not worried about installing the shower but ive never put in a pump before and im not sure what i need to get really. my cylinder is on the same level as...
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    tiling tools

    hi, ive done a little bit of tiling before but ive always borrowed tools. im doing my bathroom and wanted to invest in some tile cutters but wanted to make sure that what i get is good enough. it will only be for diy use but i dont want to spend out on something crap i was looking at this...
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    Mirror in a greenhouse

    I've just put up a new greenhouse but the only place I could put it in my garden is not ideal as it's along a fence which is on the south side of the garden so half of the greenhouse is in the shade. I was wondering if it would be worth putting a mirror on the northern side of the greenhouse to...
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    central heating problems

    Ahhh I see, thanks for al your help
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    central heating problems

    Sorry the oldred joins a brown wire then goes into the box with a red on the other side and the orange joins a blue with nothing on the other side of the junction box
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    central heating problems

    Thanks for that. I'm a bit confussed about one bit though. What do you mean by join the red to the orange? On the old sm they are not joined so do I put the new valves orange wire where the old orange is (which goes into a junction box with a blue wire) or into where the old red is which joins a...
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    central heating problems

    I did buy the cheap crappy hosrtman in the end. I'm not going to be here long so didn't worry to much but thanks for the advice. I've been putting it in this afternoon and I've got a bit stuck already, the timer went in easily enough the wiring was all the same. The hit I'm stuck on is the 3...
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    central heating problems

    hi, our central heating system is not working properly. we have a gravity fed system which has a switchmaster 805 timer which is really loud and the buttons dont work properly and a switchmaster valve (i think its tha three port valve which feed the water to the hot water or the central...
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    Apple tree removal

    I've got an apple tree in my back garden which needs to go as it's in the way of where we are putting our new decking. We had a few other bushes which I dug out and moved to our front garden and have been fine and I was wondering how hard it would be to dig the apple tree up. It's about 7 or 8...
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    how to sit a steel on a corner?!?

    hmm interesting.... thanks for your help. i think i'll take your advice and get an engineer in cheers
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    how to sit a steel on a corner?!?

    how deep would that need to go?? is there any way of getting around putting a pad stone in on the end of the wall?
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    how to sit a steel on a corner?!?

    i need to have a wall taken out and a steel put in but the steel would end up on what is now a corner and would then be the end of a wall so the pad stone could not go 150mm either side. the wall to be taken out supports the floor joists above where they meet. the wall on the left is...
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    help with a steel?????

    i am having a wall taken between our kitchen and dining room. its a block wall which is supporting the floor joists above but doesnt have a wall above. i'm just wondering how the steel will go in as the wall to be taken out (on the right of the picture) is staggered and so the steel would sit...
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