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Cheers for the replies As far as i know it was the pipe straight from the meter box into the kitchen it doesnt come out of the box and enter the house anywhere else With the gas off im stuck He knows i cant leave my tennant without any gas so basically has me over a barrel, Im working...

just aquired a rental property i did not organise last years gas safety cert but do have one The gas pipe through the wall is not sleeved, i presume it was like this last year,i beleieve current standards say it need to be sleeved. Do i need to get the gas pipe sleeved or will i get a...

Thanks The bath also sits on two metal supports do theese need eathing its a spa bath, so its has a 240v supply Mike

my bathroom is piped in mainly in plastic the plastic is connected to copper pipes which then feed the basin taps then same with the toilet, a peice of copper runs from the plastic pipe to the cistern Do i need to cross bond theese copper pipes ??

Having a new spa bath installed it comes with about 2m of normal 3 core flex this is not long enough to reach the fused switch i have installed in the adjacent bed room i have run some twin and earth from the switch into the bathroom i need to join the cables together somehow prefrably...

[ plastic pipes are non-conductive. still want to earth them? is it the metal taps i am supposed to be eathing or the pipework i though the reason for eathing the pipes was to earth the taps

i forgot to mention its a spa bath cant see this makes i difference though

My plumber has just installed my new bath He has used plastic pipes straight to the taps Do i need to earth the taps and if so how I cannot see any way to connect an earth to them. To make thing worse its a double ended bath and the taps are in the middle at the back asgainst...

Thanks for the reply The supplementary bonding remains within the bathroom - it does not go back to the CU. by this i mean is it ok to have multiple earth paths back to the CU via the earth wire in the supply cables as the shower and bath are supplies by different breakers in CU

part of the installation is a spa bath can i connect the bath pipes to the earth from the electric supply to the bath connect all the other pipes together with earth wire including bath ones and the shower one and also connect the earth from the shower supply to the pies as well...

i need to carry out some earth bonding in my new bathroom the plumber has used plastic couplings in a couple of places, i presume i need to bond across them is there a max distance the bonding can be away from exposed taps ie can i do it under the floorboards the shower and the...

just put up some new tiles they have had some sort of protection sqirted horizontally across each one ( for protection in box) top and bottom. It is proving almost impossible to remove completely the top layer peels off, but leaves a thin residue that will not shift i've tried...

My landing light bulb blows on a regular basis ( 2 weeks) it takes the MCB out with it Could this be due to a problem in the wiring or some external event or is that i am using crap bulbs ( the light is left on all night so does get more use than all the others ) i would expect a bulb to...

hi thanks for the replys i believe the CU is a SB6000 they are white/grey and say type 1 on them they have a normal screw connection on the top the supply is bussed along the bottom by a copper strip that a screw goes through onto the breaker

Hi i have an old Crabtree Consumer unit fitted with type 1 circuit breakers i need to fit a 40A or 45A breaker to it. Can you still get type 1 breakers or equivalent from anywhere in the 40/45A size or do any other breaker fit this CU what would happen if i put two 32A in...

i need to secure some loose floorboards in the bathroom is it better to screw or nail ?

Hi i have just had the bathroom ceiling re plasterboarded and skimmed i have also had a couple of walls skimmed How long do i have to wait before i can paint ? do i need to seal the fresh plaster, and with what ? or do i just slap emulsion on ?

i thought if i was careful and wore the wifes marrigolds and wellys i wouldnt hurt too much if i touched it. i would only need to short the cables out once and it would be ok after that

i would like to relocate my consumer unit i need to extend the meter tails by about 2m whats the beat way to extend them ? i guess i need some sort of large chocloate block !!

Thanks what size earth cable should i use ? the shower will be a 9.5 kw one if this relavent