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thanx, ill give it a blast up the carraige way and hope to god the engine dosnt sieze!

sorry/ it was serviced with an established garage whom i was reccomended to but not a main dealer who was a great deal dearer. it has only done about 3 or 4 miles before i got it home and is a 1.5 petrol engine also i forgot to mention that it had its mot done with the service so surely it cant...

hi/ ive just had a full service done on my car and when i reversed to park it up i noticed a lot of smoke coming from the exhaust ,it wasnt black and it didnt smell and it has a cat converter but before the service the exhaust was clean. i was just wondering if the wrong oil has been added could...

cheers for putting me straight, now i can go and put sybills mind at rest ,oh and dont mention the WAR!

the plumber who installed my boiler has replaced my old manuel valves with trv,s but ive noticed that he put all the trv,s on the right hand side of the radiators apart from one which is on the left hand side is there a reason for this or has he made a mistake without realizing?

im not having any problems its just that a plumber told me that 8mm is more prone to clogging up thus restricting waterflow and making the pump work harder thus reducing its lifespan.the plumber told me he prefers 10mm over 8 or 15mm pipe so i just thought should i change it to save problems later?

what are the advantages/disadvantages of using micro bore ,as i have just had the old backboiler replaced with a new condensing boiler but am still using the same 8mm pipe runs to the radiators.would it be feasible to replace this with 10mm and would i still be able to connect to the same...

it was just an interpritation i got from a diy book it didnt really explain the process clearly but im a little more the wiser now thanks!

hi ive just had my old lead incoming water supply replaced with mdpe pipe. and from the rising main stopcock copper pipe is installed. i understand that this needs to be supplermentary bonded in 10mm earth cable back to the main earth block near the cu and that it has to be within 600mm.the...

hi just a couple of simple questions 1)what size junction box should i use for breaking into a lighting circuit to install a couple of wall lights 20amp or 5amp? would it make much difference. 2)how is a 2 gang light switch connected up to supply 2 seperate lights, is it red to common and...

ok thanks, i,ll just stick with a radial and save a few bob on extra cable.

i was thinking of a radial, but wouldnt a ring be better as the electrical current can flow from either end and raise the current carrying capacity of the circuit without increasing cable size or changing to a 32 amp mcb?

is it acceptable to run a ring main off a 20 amp mcb? i ask this because i have a spare fuseway in the cu and was thinking about putting a seperate ring in the dining room. it will only have 3 sockets one of which will be spurred to a security light. there will be roughly 11 to 12 meters of...

the cable run from the fcu to the floodlight is just under 2 metres and the light itself is 300w ,so i assume a length of 1.00mm cable and a 5 amp fuse would be suffice. thanks for the tips/

hi, does anyone know what size cable i should use for a security floodlight outside?. i have a spur running off a junction box on the main ring curcuit and this goes into a switched fused connection unit. but what size cable should i use going from the fused connection unit to the...

thanks to all for the tips,now i know what size cable goes where no more headaches. just to let kai know i havnt got an emersion heater cylinder as i took it out when i got the boiler installed

hi im cross bonding my water and radiator pipes in 4mm earth cable BUT (1) what size earth cable should be used from the main earth block to the earth terminal in the consumer unit,at the moment there is 6mm cable,but should 10mm or 16mm be used. ALSO (2) what size earth cable...

doh! its all become apparantly clear to me now thanks for the tips :oops:

i wanted to keep the unswitched socket hidden with the plug left in permanantly connected ,then i could just switch it off at the switched fused connection unit ,also the fcu that i have has a 13 amp fuse in it does this mean i can use a 2.5mm cable run from the fcu to the unswitched socket?

im fitting a cookerhood but unsure how to wire it up.can i spur off a switched fused connection unit from a socket on the ring main and from the fcu to an unswitched socket (which will be hidden behind the extractor)and if so what size cable should i run from the fcu and what size fuse should be...