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    Forgot fitting on Plastic Piping!Consequences?

    Hi everyone, I was putting in some plastic pex pipe into a tectite speedfit joint(with the teeth so you cant take it back out!) and I forgot to put the little insert into the top of the pipe before pushing home( it was very late on a friday night!!)... I was just wondering should I cut the lot...
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    Why is this shorting 2 way circuit?

    Hi Everybody, Is this circuit safe? It works fine but as a novice I've little confidence in it. Live supply from 'common' on switch outside bedroom, going to 'common' on switch 1, via single insulated cable. Brown wire in t+e going from L2 on switch 1 to L1 on switch 2. Blue wire going...
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    plastering over chipboard or wallpaper

    Hey everyone I'm stripping the walls of a kitchen to plaster over and have come accross a big sheet of chipboard covered in wallpaper. Instead of stripping the paper off it by soaking the thing, can I just plaster over the lot? Or for the sake of a few quid will i rip it out and put in a sheet...
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    uPVC window fitting(placement)

    Hi all, Starting my garage conversion tomorrow, window being delivered friday, to sit on a 9" cavity block wall. I am feeling a little jittery as I am fitting it myself. From looking at other windows I can guess it sits behind the concrete sill, on the inner leaf? or does it go over the cavity...
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    New walls to old walls

    Hi Everyone, About time I stepped from out of the shadows...converting my garage into a bedroom was hoping to run a few things by all of you. I'm taking out the garage door and window above it, replacing it all with a metre high block(2 skins, cavity)wall and pvc window above. There is an...
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