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Been doing a bit of plumbing work lately and have come across a reoccuring problem three times. A few times I have soldered an incorrect fitting to a run of copper pipe. I try to remove the fitting by reheating, the solder melts and I pull on the fitting but the fitting jams and will not budge...

Just completed my first ever soldering plumbing job and pretty pleased with the result. However, I am getting a little paranoid about if I have deburred the pipes correctly or not. I used a deburring tool as pictured below and counted 8 revolutions on each end of each pipe, I think I may have...

Got a bit of a Christmas diy project going. Building out a wall with 3 inch battens and will fit with 12mm plasterboard. Wall will be partly tiled and have a small sink. Is the batten spacing ok? I am worried about the edges. Will the plasterboard be week at the sides and top and bottom. The...

I need to fix some 3x2" battening to a solid wall (3 inch protruding from the wall). I was planning to use 8x120 frame fixings and reckon that this would give me around 46-50mm in the wall after countersinking. Is this satisfactory? Or should I go as deep as 10x135? Also if the 120 depth is ok...

I have a solid block wall 900mm in width with a sink on it and all pipes are revealed. I am doing up the room and would like to conceal these pipes. I was planning to build out the wall by 3 inches, which will cover all excisting pipwork. My plan for doing this was to use 3.5" by 1.5" studwork...

We have an existing gas stove with a balanced flue through the wall. We would like to upgrade this to a log burning stove with a piped flue. My question is how high would this piped flue approximately need to be? I have looked at building regs documentation, but found this confusing. Anyone have...

I want to get a new front door for my flat to replace the current wooden door. As the flat is on the first floor it has a video door entry system with an electric door release. I want get a new composite/uPVC door fitted, however I can't find any door companies that deal with door entry systems...

We are a church that has just changed business tariffs from Npower to Eon. We were switched over yesterday and half of our power has gone off!! I have checked all distribution boards and nothing has tripped. However I think I may have found the issue. Our electricity meter is a large dual rate...

Just bought some new powered PA speakers and need to extend the mains cable to each a little. I am a bit confused on the cable size to use though. The plug supplied with each speaker has a plug fitted with a 13A fuse and the attached cable is 3 core 0.75mm2. I went to Maplin and bought a length...

Sorry, there is probably already a guide on here for this, but I can't find it. I am needing to remove a ring main socket and for aesthetic purposes I can't use a blanking plate. I understand I can't leave live wires in the wall. So what would be the correct procedure/route for channeling wires...