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Garden path project. I need to get the 10m power lead from my sump pump (dirty water pump) to the outside wall socket. I've laid all my channel drainage system, sump chamber, etc. and now need to install the pump. It has a sealed integral power lead that I have to get to the other side of...

Mrs Symptoms has her own hedge trimmer ... an electric jobby; my petrol one is too heavy for her to use. However, even after warnings about technique/safety, she has chopped through to cable twice and I've had to make repairs. It's happened again but instead of connecting the original...

Mrs Symptoms has mentioned a tingling sensation when using her battery powered 'health aid' in the bath :lol:

I bought a Victorian house in N.Ireland a couple of years ago & I'm busy renovating it. In the cupboard below the staircase is a short length (12” maybe) of iron pipe emerging vertically through the floor from the void below; this pipe is capped. The pipe runs below the hallway & front door...

I’ve been reading another current post on “coax cable for sky?” and I need some advice about joining satelite cable runs. My current situation is: Dish high up chimney stack. ‘Shotgun’ cable drops down chimney stack and enters building at high-level through the gable wall into the attic...

I've acquired for my home workshop (in my ex-garage attached) an old Oxford Olympic 185amp oil cooled arc-welder which is tripping the main RCD next to my consumer units ... there is no fault on the welder as I have used it elsewhere. My home set-up: in the cellar 100 amp main fuse then...

I'm buying a house with an old oil-fired CH boiler (gravity/unvented system) and want to swap it for a Natural Gas job. The gas provider's doing a deal at the moment - running the gas from the street, installing meter ... all for 'free' ... when a new boiler is installed by their preferred...