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    Bonding gas meter.

    The meter is inside, in a cupboard in the kitchen. A connection can be made easily to the meter outlet pipe but wiring through to the front of the house would be difficult as it would have to go up into the loft (we live in a bungalow) across the house but It would be a long wire! Also, the...
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    Bonding gas meter.

    I have just had a smart meter installed and the engineer pointed out that the gas meter is not earthed. The gas supply by the way is by a heavy gauge steel pipe to the meter. It would be difficult to run an earth lead from the meter to the board but would be quite easy to bond to a radiator just...
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    Cannon Cooker problem

    Had fuse go in plug, this replaced but nothing on, no clock or gas lighting. Socket fine, tested fuse in plug, ok. Had a quick look in back and under front panel, nothing loose. Help!
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    Brick wall crumbling

    He was drilling 2 bricks down. The cement is so weak you can dig it out with a fingernail, in fact I have just gone out and dug 1/2" deep in 10 seconds! Do you call that acceptable? I gave a piece to my 9 year old granddaughter and she crumbled it to dust between her palms almost instantly.
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    Brick wall crumbling

    4 years ago I had my garage shortened to make room for a caravan. A wall with a door was built across the open end. Recently I had the roof replaced and during this the contractor had to fix additional support along the new wall. To his horror, as he was drilling into the wall to fix a batten...
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    FM radio aerial: use TV coaxial cable?

    Hi, I Have a 75 ohm coax aerial socket on my radio and am going to stick the 1.5 m antenna in the loft, The only worry is I will have to use about 9 m of coax to get to the right place AND 2.5M of that is to go alongside heating pipes (the only way up). Am I likely to get any interferance problems?
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