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A friend is having an electric element heated ladder style chrome towel rail fitted in a bathroom ( by and electrician). This will be the only source of heating in the room. I have always had CH heated rads so wonder how the quoted BTU rating of a given sized rad varies up or down if heated by...

I have a bungalow with conventional CH system, with wall mounted gas boiler ( 3 yrs old ), but all other original plumbing from build.. approx. 1985. BGas fitted new boiler some 3 yrs ago, with no circulation problems after. The hot water cylinder is the original 36x18 insulated copper, fed by...

I have just replaced an old Triton Opal 9.5kw shower which kept going cold after use... it didn't have an overheat indicator. As it was at least 6yrs old I decided to replace it and chose a Creda 950 DL from Argos. It seemed to have the basic requirement of a proper start/stop button and...

Hi, I have had no replies to my posts in Woodwork or Gardening, so will try here. I need to protect a steep drop on a patio area over some concrete steps by creating a 12' handrail or silmilar .. or maybe a full decking type assembly, but thats going to be expensive. I have seen an internal...

Hi, I need to provide a secure handrail for a patio type area near the front door with steep concrete steps to one side, to prevent anyone going over the top and down onto the steps. Unfortunately the current brick retaining wall is only 20" high at the top end and zero the other end, as the...

Hi, I need to provide a secure handrail for a patio type area near the front door with steep concrete steps to one side, to prevent anyone going over the top and down onto the steps. Unfortunately the current brick retaining wall is only 20" high at the top end and zero the other end, as the...

Hi, Following my earlier thread about the size of the nut on the plug I found the one on my own to be 32mm, whereas B&Q off the shelf was 30mm, so obviously it does depend on the manufacturer.. for any others interested. So, I got a 32mm socket but after flooding the airing cupboard with...

Hi, I am just about to fit an immersion heater in an approx 22 yr old cylinder, which does not have one at present. The plug has a socket nut atop and I wondered what size this might be as I don't have a wide selection of sockets/ ring spanners of that size and don't want to buy the wrong one...

I have a 20yr old Potterton netaheat conventional boiler which needs updating. I am considering a non combi condensing Vaillant or Baxi replacement to fit existng installation supply pipes. What would be a fair price for a typical instal, if I supplied the boiler from an internet or local...

Hi, I need advice from users of the various types of garden saws. I have an overgrown garden with old fruit trees and large shrubs, which all need taking out or severe pruning. I have used a bow saw to cut off the easy bits but I am left with the larger branches and difficult low gound shrub...

Following my earlier post about Condensing boilers and during my research, I came across comments that stainless steel heat exchangers, whilst being better then copper, were liable to scaling. I appreciate that any boiler will be susceptible to scale and sludge but the term 5 yrs was mentioned...

I have a Potterton Neta heat boiler some 20+ yrs old, serving a fully pumped conventional radiator system, which BGas say they cannot reliably repair cos parts are no longer in stock. I also appreciate that this old style boiler is very innefficient. SO, I want to replace it for a modern Gas...

Hi, I have a bungalow and Thinking about getting greener and the need to update loft insulation to recommended 10". How does this affect any electric cabling that will be buried, especially cooker and shower cables, light fittings etc etc.

Hi, I have an older style 7way MK consumer unit which is all RCD protected and the whole house goes down when anything happens. I have purchased an new MK 12way split load unit complete with breakers, but now wonder which circuit to connect to main breaker and which to the RCD breaker. I...