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    Replacing cast iron with plastic or copper?

    My central heating system is cast iron (old house) in parts its leaking so i am planning on replacing it room by room. I was going to use copper as i have used this before - but someone suggested using plastic as its easier to fit and is just as good, so i did a little research and i have come...
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    tiling bathroom

    Hi i have a power shower going into a bath with glass door and am about to tile the bathroom, after reading this post i began to worry - shower is on plasterboard wall which is skimmed, if you can't use aquapanel because the walls up and ready can i use pva sealer for the skimmed wall and will...
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    bonding pipes

    do i need to bond the pipework to my mira power shower when ive chased the pipes into the wall and plastered over them - plus will be tiling over them, the unit itself will sit onto the wall with the pipes running out of the wall and into the unit so pipework won't be seen and seeing as the...
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    earthbonding and flexi pipe

    just a quick one is it neccessary to bond copper piping connected to flexi pipe, and also i have four t junctions running off two pipes supplying the bath and sink for new bathroom can i just bond the supply pipes instead of bonding each copper t off to bath and sink.
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    replacing cast iron soil pipes with pvc

    I'm replacing an existing cast iron soil pipe with pvc. There is a clay collar at ground level, and i'm wondering how to seal the pvc to clay connection as the clay collar is wider than the pipe. In the event of me breaking this clay collar whilst removing the cast iron pipe - what are my options?
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    Connecting different sized cabling

    I need to use 2.5mm cabling for my powershower thats the max i can fit to the terminal inside wall mounted casing, problem is the only cable i could spur off is 6mm cabling serving one socket (thats never used) which in turn is feeding another socket that runs the washing machine the cabling to...
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    Can i run a spur from an immersions fcu

    I was going to run a spur from the immersion heater's fcu to a 3amp fused double pole for a mira wall mounted power shower, will this be safe to do. I thought with it being only 3amps that it wouldn't be a problem but read somewhere else on the forum that it might not be advisable. Any thoughts...
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