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    Wiring a light?

    Hi Chaps, I've just had my bathroom redone and the sparky I'm using was due today to fit the lights but is ill and now can't get back to me until after Christmas. I'm going to wire up the lights myself until he comes back and just wanted to confirm my method Currently there is a 20 amp...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    Please help. I'm trying to fix a back to the wall toilet back to the wall but am struggling to fit the flush pipe. It's got a hidden cistern so it's just the water pipe showing through the tiled wall. The cistern is only accessible from the top so I can't hold it while I push the toilet on...
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    Shaver point cable

    Hi All, I'm remodelling my bathroom and need to move a shaver point. The current cable that supplies it is taken off the lighting fitting and looks tiny. My plan is either to join new cable to it in the loft via a junction box or run a new one off straight off the new fitting. Can I use 1mm T&E...
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    Is there a definitive answer on the best material to stiffen a floor before tiling?

    Hi All, Im about to put down some floor covering for a tiler to tile onto but it would seem they all want different things. Advice on the best thing to use would be much appreciated. It's an upstairs bathroom so the tiles will be going over a timber floor. Electric heating mats are then being...
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    What size pipe to use?

    Hi All, Sorry yet another question. I'm teeing into existing pipe work to create feeds for a standard bar style shower. We've just had a new cylinder fitted which now pushes all the water round the house at mains pressure. The pipes I'm teeing into are both 22mm. Am I best using a reducing...
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    Push fit v Solder?

    Morning All, I'm installing a shower in our bathroom in moving a rad. My soldering skills are not the best and I'm not sure I'd be that confident having them sitting in a wall cavity and below a tiled timber floor. What are people's views on using decent quality push fit instead?
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    Can't get 1 in 40 fall?

    Hi All, I'm in the process of refitting our bathroom and adding a shower. The shower is at the opposite end of the bathroom to the internal soil stack. The rest of the suite is being replaced but not moved so I was hoping to join the shower waste to the existing run for the basin. The problem...
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    Where to position shower mixer?

    Hi, Im in the process of fitting a 900mm x 900mm quadrant shower enclosure. I unsure where to fit the mixer. The height is obviously dependent on whose going to use it but terms of the width would it normally be centred on one of the walls? I'm running the pipes without the tray in place so...
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    What cable to use?

    Hi, I'm just about the change the lights in my bathroom from 1 pendant to 4 x 9w LED Downlights. I'm clear how to do everything. My question is due to the size of the terminals in the LED Lights can I use 1mm cable rather than the standard 1.5mm? Thanks in advance. Graeme Graeme
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    Change ceiling rose for LED DOWNLIGHTERS

    Hi, I'm just about to change the existing bathroom light for 4 led down lights. My questing is can I run them off the live and neutral currently feeding the existing light by just extending the curcuit. I've got easy access above in the loft.
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