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sorry if this has been asked before I'm looking to replace a built under electric cooker with a newer one I know i can't have a double because there is no power point just a couple of sockets under the work top. however the cooker the wife wants is a bosch that according to the catalogue is...

cheers i'll have a look but i know the box hasn't been changed for at least 10 years cos it still has the old wire fuses but not sure of the acutual model number

Hi i've just had an electrical test done as part of british gas's homecare package, they've told me that my fuse box needs to be updated to a 17th generation RCD and that the gas supply needs earthing the're quoting me £750 for the work. Is this about right? I have a feeling because its BG...

Hi I'm just about to replace the internal doors in my flat and I was wondering about the old door latches. The new doors I've bought have the handles lower than the old ones so i've cut new reccesses for the latch/catch in the door frame but now I have a space further up the frame where the...

As a martial artist I started off with judo as a kid and progressed from there to kickboxing and then onto KFM. I would say judo or ju jitsu are good starting points as they have alot of grappling which if you think about it is mostly the sort of fighting most kids get into, where they usually...

Hi I just have a quick question about hiring an electrican. is there a recgonised standard I should look for? I know that gas guys need to be corgi registered is there something simmilar for electricians? cheers

yeah sorry it was 1.08 not 1.8 and no all he did was to stick a probe onto the casing, and this is why I'm having arguments with the mantenance company as they still wont send someone out to check if it is just my flat or all the others they just keep going on about how they've phoned EDF and...

So can I just ask how dangerous is having an impedence of 1.8? as my wife is now bouncing off the walls as she is sure the flat is going to burst into flames at any moment

funny then that the guy said that BG wont touch lead pipes. oh well never mind

they come down from the ceiling straight into the old airing cuboard i'm guessing they connect to a water tank somewhere up in the top of the flats but wether it has any water I don't know but thanks for the advice and what about the fact they are lead? is there some health and safety reason...

Hi I've just had british gas round as part of their homecare package to look at some old lead pipe in a cuboard in my flat. Basically there used to be a boiler there which the previous owners had removed and had a combi boiler put in the kitchen, so there are now two capped off pipes running...

cheers that's what I thought. These pots of miracle cover stuff seem to be a bit crap then, I'm already going to have to get someone to redo my front room celing as the last owner put loads of that pollyfilla artex cover on it and now its all cracked and split, when I touched it I could feel it...

Hi I'm just about to start decorating my bedroom the walls are in pretty good condition but there are a few pin holes, dinks, scratches and also small blobs of paint/plaster. As I said nothing major is it worth just filling in the holes ect then sanding over the top to level everything off or is...

all I saw was the guy from british gas homecare put a probe onto the cable that was coming in from the fuse box under the stairs in the communal hall and when i spoke to EDF just now they said it should be .8 so that must be TN-S i suppose

right thanks for that number sparky, I phoned them and it seems i've got to get the mantenence company out to check if its just my flat that has the problem or if its the supply from EDF so its another call to hml shaw to make sure they are doing their part. just as a point the impedance is 1.08...

Hi guys just looking for some advice I moved into my new flat in feb about a month ago I signed up for british gas's electrical cover and one of their engineers came out and look at my fusebox ect and it turns out that the there is a high impedence value for the earthing loop. the guy from...

Thanks i've just spat coffee over my screen :lol:

is the atomic wieght of cobalt 58.9?

my mother-in-law has a habit of ending most of her sentences with "as I say" which for some reason really winds me up. is this just a northern thing? the wife's family is from buxton

Cheers i'll have to look at that as the flu sticks out about 2 foot! I think the old owners left the bill i'll see if i can dig it out