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HI Please advise, Would I be putting myself in any danger by setting my computer area up next to the main breaker and electric meter, which is under our stairs in a small room. my head would be 14 inch away from the main breaker and 10 inch away from the meter. Thanks Gary

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Ha, no not even started thinking about it. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks

Should I feel embarrased? I have done plently of diy projects around the home, however in the past I have tried to avoid working with wood, This time though we have purchased some flooring through an unmissable sale that it was offered at and we havent the money to have it fitted by a...

ok, ok lol How about I take the wire accross the wall at say a metre high, is that legal? then run it down the wall under the coping on top of the wall of which the light unit will be bolted to? hows that, my missus has told me that she wants the lights in! no excuses!!! lol maybe...

my combi is NOT the same make as yours but, We do have the same problem with taps and pressure along the hot feed. You can however turn the water pressure up (on mine anyway) Theres a nob behind the dials panel and I turned that to get more pressure. Obviously you loose heat when you increase...

Hi, I will be putting three 60watt garden lamps in my garden in various places. I need to put the wiring in before i pave obviously. Can anyone direct me to a diagram for the appropriate wiring of 3 60watt external lamps? I have done electrical stuff in the house (extra sockets, lighing...

you've confirmed my suspisions, thanks. You see this problem extneds along the entire back wall, so, I'm thinking that theres been some kind of house movement and these wedges have fallen out, It's just that I did'nt expect to find that the joist would be wedged up, I thought that they would...

Hi all. I will soon be taking on the job of stoping the floor 'bouncing' when jumped on in the kitchen next to the exterior wall. Obviously having never done this before I have taken up a few floor boards in a select place to see what exactly the problem is. I found that the joists are resting...

thats pretty much it, yea. I can only see the front i havent taken a brick out yet, but when removing a step at the front of the house a few months ago I found the same thing, behind where this step had been the bricks just came out with no moratr, so im asuming the same in this case.

Hi, After recently digging up the old concrete path at the back of the house, Ive noticed that the bricks below where the path used to be have no mortar between them, In fact they closer together also than the bricks above them which are obviously mortared and pointed. Is this a problem, does...

Hi, and thanks in advance. My shower that I fitted neally a year ago now has started to ''play-up'' At first I thought it was the switch, maybe a loose connection. I removed the switch and put it back on. There was no loose connection, however one of the nuetral cables had a black kind of sut...

Hi, thanks masona for the web site link , it is very helpful (last post). However, if I were to take on the task of paving the entire of my back garden, roughly 20 metres by 10 metres, after removing all the junk and leaving just soil, what would be my prepartation to this space? would I order...

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Hi, I will be paving the garden this summer, I was wondering if anyone would like to point out any preparatory measures that I may need to think about before I start laying paving. I will be paving the garden as it becomes very muddy after rain due to the very poor drainage, and our dogs bring...

ah, thanks very much

Hi, I was wondering what the potential problems are and really how to achieve the following. I wish to remove to front of the chimney breast wall up to 8ft from the ground, I realise I will have to leave the side walls to support, and use a lintel? to support also, but I want to ultimately...

right, so I clean my walls, dilute pva adhesive, and I work it on the walls in stages, because if i do the pva all at once it'll ave' dried before i get there to plaster, if thats right? what plaster do i buy please? Don't forget its not me thats doing this, its my dad buthe knows how to...

so I can apply this stuff straight on top of the existing plaster and then skim ?