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    Light switches and neons

    Currently my mother in laws garage has a light switch at one end. She would like one at the other end and one indoors. Now I have no problem with this (wiring wise) however the one indoors would need to have a neon so that she could tell if the light had been left on in the garage inside without...
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    securing taps?!?!

    I have stripped down a basic single bathroom basin tap as the water flow was nearly non existant. I have cleaned it all out and all seems ok. However where the top part of the tap screws into the part which remained connected to the basin (the housing for a better word) when you turn the tap off...
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    Hot water runs dry at the taps.

    I drained down the water at my mother in laws to move a basin and radiator. Now the central heating seems to run fine, however the hot water to all the taps keeps running dry after only a minute or so. What I do know is the copper cylinder in the airing cupboard is filling up, as water is...
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    changing drains hopefully a simple solution!!!!

    I have dug out a u-trap drain by the side of my house, which previously serviced the kitchen sink. I am going to use this access to my drains for a new toilet being plumbed in upstairs. Now what I have left is a drain hole about 100mm in diameter about 250mm away from the house and about 250mm...
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    Loss of hot water pressure on a mixer shower

    As title really when using the mixer tap for the bath everything is fine, however when trying to use the shower attachment attached to the taps you either get all hot (hot tap turned fully open and cold just slightly opened)or all cold (when the cold tap is opened up enough to bring the water...
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    Tin baths

    I am just about to install a tin bath, and unlike the plastic types of bath it does not have wooden strips running around it to mount the L shaped brackets (the brackets are not included too). What do people do with these baths to connect/tie them to the wall to stop movement between the bath...
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    Becoming A Qualified Tiler

    For the last eight years I have been employed in telephone banking taking a rather secondary role to my wife the bread winner whilst I helped bring up our children. However I will now be officially redundent at the end of the month due to our department closing. Anyway I have always been quite...
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    Heat Exchanger for an Ideal Mexico

    Hi everyone, I never thought I would find myself turning to the power of the web for a boiler part, however as I use other forums thought there mustr be one for that too. Much to my horror the heat exchanger to my Ideal Mexico Super RS3/80 has developer a very large crack and as such needs...
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