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I am querying a few things here but my main bug bear is this so called BG service they 'offer'. My friends gran pays £25 a month for this service whereby they are supposed to keep her boiler and rads up to scratch. Over the years they have just replaced ONE rad valve with a TRV. They havent been...

We are having an office erected in the garden and I need to install a meter so that I can charge all the electricity used for the business to the business and not take it from the household bills. Now I found one somewhere once but am damned if I can trace it now. :shock: Does anyone have any...

Fitted a p-shaped bath last year for a customer, who is now complaining that the overflow is leaking. The overflow is fitted to the knob that opens the waste and is high on the side of the bath...which is ok. However when the bath water is let out the subsequent backflow up the overflow pipe...

In 7671 there is mention that no more than 10 computers can be connected in a system as the possible earth leakage of 3mA per pc would put the RCD out if it were a 30mA HELP!!! Does this apply to the screens as the old CRT type monitors were no doubt less efficient than the new TFT screens or...

A friend has a Space Ideal Standard close coupled pan and we are unable to take off the cistern lid. The push button arrangement doesnt seem to unscrew like others I have seen. Is there something we are missing here?

I have a Potterton Combi that is situated in the loft, presently on a 24 hour timer that is a pain at weekends to have to traipse up to in order to turn on! I am looking at upgrading to a digital wireless system so that I can have the choice of turning it on from the comforts of the front room...

I have a 90 deg bend waste pipe leading to the outside, but it is through the back of a unit. I am looking to replace the sink and accompanying pipework and want to know how I can replace this joint. It looks like solvent weld to me but no 100% sure. The new sink will have 1 1/2 bowls and I...

I am replacing a kitchen sink from ceramic to metal. Going back over past threads there are many mentions of earthing the sink!!! Some go back before the Part P new requirements and before amendments to 7671 so am getting confused. When should I ever bond a kitchen sink???

I have recently had a nasty experience by having to use another (recommended!!) tiler when my usual tiler was too busy. They charged £600 for about 12 sq metres of tiles, including grout and adhesive. I initially thought that this was a bit steep, but they had done an excellent job with the...

Been told by my plasterer that he cannot plaster over my plasterboarding as it is not adequately secured...we have very few joists to tie it to. Plastering it now would mean it cracking by the morning :( There is a main join running the width of the room that is only supported at either end...

Would it be ok to run the earth bonding from the pull switch...down the wall behind capping and tiling...to under the bath where ALL heating and water pipework comes out of the wall from the cylinder in the adjoining bedroom where the airing cupboard is sited? This is also the wall where the new...

I am trying to move a toilet from its existing position on an outside wall round 90degs to an internal wall. There is lots of room for all the bends and I will need 3 90deg bends to do this, but other than ensuring the fall is adequate, is there anything else I should look out for? There is...

stopped the damned thing leaking now with a new donut, and had to wedge the cistern level to the pan...all hunky dory. NOW the damned thing is letting by at the flush end of the valve (its one of these new drop valve things) as it has a small pipe out of the top of the drop flap that is open. I...

I am looking for a remote shower control. Groehe do one for a thermostatic shower, but cannot find anything for an electric one. Is there any reason why you cannot have a remote (say next to the bed) to switch on an electric shower? Surely an electric shower is easier to remotely control with...

Just spent a couple of hours trying to stop the newly installed close coupled pan from leaking. It is leaking where the cistern fits on the top of the pan. I have tried tightening and untightening the connecting bolts thru the cistern into the pan, to no avail. Seems now that the actual...

Has anyone had any problems with CGD (control gear direct) units?

Am looking at replacing a 7-way MK board with a larger split board of around 12 ways Any recommendations on brands to look for, or definitely avoid???

Wilkinsons are doing some stupidly cheap cable...surely they must be selling stuff up to British Standard???

Long story and probably even longer responses, but here goes... (am currently on second year of 2330, so am not qualified, but am "sort of" competent!! I also have access to qualifed sparks when necessary, so please no lectures on Part P etc) Friday afternoon the electric hob tripped the...