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Is there anything that can be done to help prevent condensation forming on a cistern? The old cistern was plastic but the new one is porcelain and apparantly (its at my grans house) is condensating quite badly Cheers

Bought a bunch of stuff today. All the individual prices add up but the total was a bit more than I had expected :shock: How do these prices compare? 100m 22mm barrier pipe @ £176.90 100m 15mm barrier pipe @ £92.83 3m 15mm copper @ £3.75 3m 22mm copper @ £7.50 22mm elbow @ £1.50...

I'm keeping an eye on a mates flat (maintenance wise) whilst he is travelling. The folks renting the flat phoned to say the boiler had locked therefore no heating and no hot water. My mate has a cover policy with BG to cover the boiler and they came and sorted it (I think it was a problem...

Got called yesterday from a customer in a panic yesterday. The bathroom upstairs had sprung a (bad) leak. I'm not a plumber but was called to help in a panic ie switch water off, isolate leak etc meantime. Anyway the water was following its normal course along the downstairs ceiling and...

We are currently building an extension for a client. Its a pitched roof single storey extension meeting a vertical existing wall to the rear of the property. Inside there will be two openings from existing house to extension (ie two spots where dampness would be a problem in the cavity...

Just out of interest. Whats the consequence of running an appliance that is in theory too big for the breaker protecting the circuit. Reason I ask is that I was asked if I could fix an electric shower that wasn't operating properly. It wouldn't switch on because it had been poorly fitted...

Does anyone have any experience of Electric Towel Rads compared with 'traditional' towel rads fitted with an element and filled with water. Is one better or more efficient that the other?

Any help on what action I can take will be much appreciated. Hit a small problem on a job with a customer. It was a stumbling block but definately one that could be overcome. There was no animosity on either side at the time, we both agreed to have a think about a solution. Tried to...

Installing cable runs on walls that are to be plastered. Is it against regs or is it just bad practice to leave cables either uncapped or not run in conduit etc. Basically just clipped to the wall(or not even clipped) and then plastered over. Reason I ask is I've spent some time this week...

If you take a spur off a ring main (from a socket say) then spur off the spur then spur off that spur then connect back into the ring main at a different point from where you left it. Would that be a ring of spurs? :lol:

Here a couple of pics I took of things I discovered today at work (I know how much you all love pics). Now I am no Electrician, far from it, but its clear to me the serious, and dangerous, faults with this. The back box pictured was buried in 3/4" of plaster with no trace that it existed...

Which is the best way to power an outdoor socket from the following scenario? Nearest power source is a CU in a garage (which is fed by 16mm SWA from the house). In the gararge CU is C16 MCB marked Outside Lights (3 outside lights fed by 10mm SWA) C16 MCB marked garage socket (one...

I was having a look inside the CU at my grans flat (one level). All wiring was redone during extensive renovations in the mid 90's. She has one breaker for all her lights with two wires (red) in it. Got me thinking. Would this be two seperate lighting circuits into the breaker. And if...

Replaced a couple of lights at my folks house. Some nice 1970's brass eyeballs replaced with a couple of GU10 Downlighters. Anyway both lights are switched two way (top and bottom of stairs) but only one T&E wire was present at each light. Am I right in thinking there would be a rose type...

It trips the breaker at the main board. I have a few rooms that have downlighters in them. Whenever one of the lamps go it trips the breaker thus putting all the other lights out until its reset. Is this normal occurrence?

Hi folks, Working on site just now the spec for heating in the Extension is underfloor heating. Does anyone have any info on what effect adding underfloor heating has on the existing boiler. ie is a certain sq m of underfloor heating equivilant to adding X amount of radiators? We have had...

Evening folks, some advice needed. I had a new Heatline boiler hung a couple of months ago and all pipework ran in underfloor but we couldn't hang the rads and fire it up because walls weren't formed etc (doing a full renovation on a flat) Anyways finally got all the radiators hung and...