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Hello again all... I came on here intending to post the 3-way valve question below, but got sidetracked into reading this thread about how the A side of the valve is supposed to go to the radiators and the B side is supposed to go to the cylinder. I checked mine and it's the other way round...

I was testing a newly bought 12V DC adaptor yesterday and found a nice steady 12.1V between its positive and negative terminals. For no particular reason I then tested the voltage between one terminal and earth and got an odd fluctuating reading. I switched the meter to measure AC and found...

My phone line has a lot of crackle and broadband connection is lost on average about once an hour. The crackle is still present right back at the master socket with no other extensions connected. The weird thing is that pressing the rest on the phone up and down 10 or 20 times reduces the...

My master socket has 3 cables coming through the wall and into the back of it. Cable A is connected to terminals 2, 3 and 5 and I'm guessing this is the one that goes to the phone pole in the street. Cable B is connected to terminals 2 and 5 and it goes down the front of the house and in...

I discovered today that when undoing the nut on a tap connector, 'lefty loose' means 'when you are looking out of the connector.' If you are looking into the connector, like I was, you might end up putting a nice artistic twist in the supply pipe (and wondering how well copper stands up to...

I'm fitting a balustrade to stairs which currently don't have one. There isn't even a bottom newel, so my first task has been to fit a newel over the end of the string. The problem is that the string isn't quite vertical so the newel, which I fitted nice and square to the string, isn't...

A while back I went to replace the washer on my basin cold tap, but couldn't undo the nut that holds the head gear on. Even with a ring spanner on the nut and one of those grip wrenches on the spout, it wouldn't budge. So foolishly I gave up and left it. Now the washer has completely gone -...

Hello again all My stairs have a wall one side and nothing on the other - no balustrade, not even a bottom newel post, just the side of the closed string. (There used to be a wall there but it was taken out by a previous resident). If I do any work at all on them, does it have to meet the...

Hello all My house has plastic drainpipes which appear to be made out of separate sections connected with sockets looking much like this one http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=52689&ts=16239 Would solvent be used to make this kind of connection or are the socket and the pipe...