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    soil pipe fall quick question

    A quick question- the Building Regs Part H give 'gradient limits' of 18-90mm per 1m length for soil pipes and 18-44mm for 40mm sink etc waste pipes. So does this mean that if the fall isn't vertical then the slope has to be within these two figures? As otherwise they would give a minimum...
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    i-temp terrier

    Does anyone have experience of these? http://www.saveonheatingbills.co.uk/ They seem sensible. They look ugly! I need to buy thermostatic valves anyway so was thinking of putting a couple in. They only work when the heating system is on, so the benefit would be that during the day...
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    second floor boiler?

    Hello all, I am renovating a house and redoing pretty much all the plumbing. The CH system is being done from scratch. I have bought the ATAG 325ec boiler after recommendations on here and elsewhere, the question is where to locate it; The tidiest location for it is on the second floor...
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    Wetroom

    I'm planning on fitting a wetrooms in a house conversion. There is a lot of conflictiong information online but I have the following plan and comments from anyone with experience would be most welcome; 1- Existing timber floor joists (Room 1.9m x 1.7m) 2- 9mm to nothing firing strips laid...
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    notching and drilling for cable

    Hi All, I am putting a loft conversion in my house and moving a few walls about internally, large sections of the house are being stripped back to the studwork. The current Distribution board needs replaced, and given that some of the circuits include a mixture of sockets across 2 floors...
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    Waterproof socket in bathroom?

    I am overhauling my house and want to put the washing machine in the new bathroom. It will be built into kitchen style units and obviously it needs a power socket. I know Part P says no sockets in bathrooms, but surely an IP56 rated waterproof socket at the back of a cupboard will be fine...
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    can combi boiler run with the rads feeds cut

    Ok so I thought this was a simple one; I thought that if the heating system is switched off, ( on the thermostat and on the dial on the boiler), I could cut the pipes feeding to the rads and continue to operate the boiler for hot water for showers etc. But the shower water is cold. This...
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