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Thanks for the reply. Yes I am aware of Part P and I will have the work checked by the appropriate body when it is complete. On this piont when I contacted my local council to see if they wanted to check cable layout etc at the first fix stage they said not they were just going to do the...

Hi all. I wish to run four lights in two rooms in my out house (2 in each room). I will be running them from the garage fuse box next to it. I plan to do it in a radial circuit with the first light point providing a feed to the second room as well as the switch for this room. I wish to do...

Thanks for the info folks. Had a look at the street elbow and I think that this will solve the problem. Once again thanks.

Hi folks, I am fitting a shower and the cold pipe runs up a stramit strawboard wall the problem I have is that the thickness of the wall mean that by the time I have fitted two compression elbows to take the pipe into the shower unit It is sitting to proud of the wall. The wall is quite thin...

A little more info needed from you. Are you adding new sockets to the ring? Because there is a spur running from the socket does not mean that it maybe the last one. You say 3 mains flex cables, do you mean grey twin and earth with red and black solid cores or is it something different...

One is to the bottom tank pipe which is red hot ( comes from boiler in kitchen i think) next one is on the pipe after the central heating pump. 3rd one is also on the bottom pipe but is on a pipe which joins it after an elbow. 4th is on a cold pipe from the attic which meets up with a unit...

Yes those are the ones there are three in the airing cupboard.

Dont know whether this will help you but I had a similiar problem with bath filling up when sink was emptied, water would run back up plug hole. I my case when the bathroom was originally fitted (council house) the pipe for the bath drain did run at a deep enough angle to the downpipe so when...

Hi folks, this may seem a relatively dumb question but I want to be sure there isnt anything I am not aware of. I have a cold water mains system which feeds all the taps in hte house direct. The hot water is from a boiler in the kitchen which supplys a storage tank up stairs. I need to turn...

well it appears that in our fight to stop global warming that in 2007 2 pack will be illegal and only waterbased will be avaliable then only to bodyshops with all the right filtration. Say goodbye to the nice fella down the road who does the scrapes and bumps at a fraction of the garage costs.

I found this on another website I would be interested in peoples views on this; Section 8 of the regs (health and safety) Quotes this, Parts A to D, F to K, N and P ... of Schedule 1 shall not require anything to be done except for the purpose of securing reasonable standards of health...

Thanks for the info shogun much appreciated.

I am fitting an electric shower. My home has direct mains water to all taps so it was easy to get to the clod water supply which runs under the bath. I have T'd into the pipe then used speedfit elbows onto copper pipe. From the shower to the stop tap under the bath there are three lengths of...

Thanks for that ban a sheds

Umm I am getting a little curious and concerned about this topic. Reason being, mother in law has had a shower fitted by the local council Triton T80si dont know what the cable is but i did notice one day when looking at her consumer unit was that it was rated at 32 amp on the shower circuit...

Thanks guys for you replys, much appreciated.

Hi guys just found this forum and boy am i glad you are here. I have good general diy experience more in electrics than anything else and for the first time i am embarking on some plumbing work in the home ( installing a shower ). I have never used compression fit joints to copper pipes...