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    Is this acceptable

    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...
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    Shower pipes in stramit strawboard wall problems

    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...
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    turning off hot water supply

    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...
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    2 pack paint soon gone

    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.
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    building regs and part P

    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...
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    Bonding

    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...
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    Compression fit joints

    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...
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