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I'm currently building a workshop as a retirement project (brick outer skin, ultralite block inner skin) , and I have a 215 mm gap between a window and a door. This may be a stupid question, but should the bricks in this small gap be whole or should I keep the bond and use adjacent half-bricks...

Hi All, I have a Vaillant TurboMax Plus combi boiler to which I intend to connect a Salus RT310RF thermostat, hopefully without frying the PCB. Just looking for confirmation that this is the way to do it.. 1. Switch off power supply to boiler. 2. Wire up thermostat with 3-core-and-earth 1mm...

Hello all, I was hoping someone might be able to help me with a halogen downlights issue. I have recently had cause to move a 2-gang light switch. One switch powers the outside security light, the other switch powers 3 x 50W halogen downlights. This is the only switch on a dedicated 6B MCB...

Hello again, I have now had a closer look at the light fitting wiring, which is actually working, but I'm a bit confused. The switch contains two wires, a red and a black, with the black going to L1. I'm happy about that, although I thought the black wire should have a bit of red...

Having removed the rose from the light fitting, there seems to be an earth attached directly between the rose terminal and the light cable anchor, with a cross between a washer and a spade grip, as shown in the photos below. My question is, will this be a good earth? It looks a...

Hi, I've just bought a thermostatic shower bath valve like this: http://www.bathstore.com/files/PRODUCT_GROUP/283/LARGE.jpg and i think i need 4 x 3/4" MI to 15mm compression elbows for it - are these available anywhere? All I can find is 3/4" to 22mm and 1/2" to 15mm :( Cheers Trev

Hi, I recently bought a Merck shower head, like this: http://www.bathstore.com/files/PRODUCT_GROUP/787/LARGE.jpg which came supplied with a compression elbow, one arm of which is 15mm, fair enough. But the larger olive measures about 18mm internal diameter, and seems very loose on the...

Hmmm, just been up into the loft, removed the T & G flooring, to find the cables have been laid in shallow notches cut into the top of the 3-inch joists :shock: Now, should I make the joists even weaker by drilling through them to route the new cable for the downlights, or use the existing...

Hi all, and what a great forum this is. We're doing up our 2.3 x 1.8 metre bathroom, and from reading various posts on here, this is what I think I'm doing: 1. Replace exisiting ceiling rose with a 4-terminal 5A junction box. 2. From this, run 1.5 mm cables to 4 separate 60VA...