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Hi All Sounds really silly to ask this, but some how cannot find anyone selling a round toilet seat. Our downstairs bathroom has a round toilet pot (as against the more common oval or the newer d shaped) , probably used to save space. The toilet seat has done its job for the last 8 years...

Hi All I have 6 tilting downlights in our kitchen extension. There is slanting tiled roof on top with just a membrane under it. The recessed lights are fixed in the flat ceiling . Now on a very windy day, the downlights start whistling and I can feel cold air coming down from them. I have...

HI all i have finally managed to run a 10mm green black cable from the gas meter to the main CU in the flat. Now need to make the connections. 1. One the CU side, I cannot find anything that says MET. Instead I have a box which says PME (see attached image ). Is this where the earth cable...

I have been asked to earth the gas meter to the main's earth at the CU when we replaced the boiler. I am renovting the flat ( 1st floor ) now and have found a way to do it. The gas main comes up the central shaft and the meter is in the kitchen. The cable needs to run around 20 meters...

Hi All Last week the kitchen florucent tube T8 -56W started flickering. (http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9281088.htm) As we were between some heavy cooking we let it do so for a while, but then the tube made a small 'phuck' sound and gave up. I noticed that the difuser has...

I recently replaced the boiler in our first floor flat with a combi. The guy who did it gave me a certificate for it, but also has put in an observation stating that the gas mains is not earthed on a different piece of paper. 1. Is this a serious problem? 2. If I were to rent out the flat...

Hi All I recently had the storage bolier replaced by a combi boiler. Then in the space that was available by removing the cold storage /hot tank and immersion heater, I moved the washing machine from the kitchen and have made it like a utility cupboard (Plumbed the water outlet myself to the...

I stay on in a flat on the first floor. We were wanting to have a dishwasher for ages but due to lack of space in the kitchen , it wasn’t possible. Now we have decided to replace the old conventional gas boiler( long due ) with a combination one. The cupboard holding the cold water tank...