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    New handrail

    I'm wanting to put a new handrail up our stairs. Most of the handrail brackets I've looked at only take 6g screws, which I don't rate much. In our last house, I cut some circles of timber and shaped them with a router and fixed those securely to the wall and fit the brackets to them...
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    Programmer question

    This is for a mate of mine. Two months ago he replaced his existing kaput programmer with a Horstmann Centaurplus C21. This is also now kaput. He was going to return it tomorrow but we've been having a read of the instructions. There is a link at the back of the C21 which should be left in place...
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    Grouting question

    When wall tiles butt up to floors, door frames and ceilings is it o.k. to grout those joints or should they be finished with a flexible frame sealant or similar product? Cheers
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    Duff pump????

    Parents boiler wasn't firing. ( I know who wants the heating on in this weather!). Pump appeared to be not working. I done some searches on here and carried out a test on it with a digital multimeter. I understand I should have had a reading of 120 to 200 ohms . Nothing like so I pronounced the...
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    Tiling onto plasterboard

    Should I PVA the plasterboard before I tile onto it?
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    Just wondering

    Wife's friend asked me to look at her shower today. Light was on at the pull cord switch but shower weren't working. Anyhow I've got my volt tester, which I originally purchased to curtail the number of shocks I used to get around anything electrical, and tested for current at the shower...
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    Moving a combi

    Can an existing combi boiler be moved to a new location in a property or does a condensing boiler have to be installed?
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    Clay soil connection

    Is there a connector available that will fit inside a clay soil pipe (100mm internal diameter) to which plastic soil pipe can be fitted, or is the external rubber couplings with metal bands the only option? Cheers.
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    Central heating question

    Back boiler system with pump on central heating and gravity hot water. I have discovered that the pump is switched off by the room thermostat but the boiler continues to fire for up to a minute afterwards. The boiler will continue to fire up/go out until the pump is again switched on by the room...
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    Part 1 or Part 2

    I've searched all over the net. Can anyone explain to me the difference or the situations where you would use a part 1 or 2 ball valve. Or point me in the direction of the written word. Thank you.
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    Overflow problem

    My elderly neighbour asked if I could have a look to see why her overflow was running. I went into the loft and discovered a large cylinder with Gledhill written on the side. The top of the cylinder has two seperate sections each with it's own ball-c**k. These were fine. The problem was being...
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