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    Engineered wood advice required please!

    Hi there! Popping over from the plumbing and gas forum for some advice on my own house, hopefully I can get some advice to help. I have a 13-year old house that weve recently bought and are renovating the downstairs. It's open plan, so we're laying the same flooring throughout. We have an...
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    A couple of questions regarding artificial grass

    Hi all, I'm a regular in the gas man forum up the page a bit so though I'd pop in here for some quick advice as I'm going to give installing an artificial lawn a go. Our lawn is east facing, so doesn't get a lot of sun so has never really grown well, this is compounded by the fact it is...
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    Wet room shower pump

    Anybody got any recommendations for a wet room shower waste pump? Have been looking into the Whale pumps but the price seems a little steep, close to £350 plus VAT for the vinyl floor waste and extra flow switch. Any cheaper alternatives? The waste pipe nearby is actually above the tray so any...
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    Little bathroom query

    Just working out a bathroom which I'll be doing all the tiling combined with some decent quality laminate flooring. Just looking for some opinions on what might be the best way to finish the edges? I'd like to the flooring first to the wall edge, leaving the 10mm gap, then tile down above onto...
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    Waste pump

    Am going to look at a job tomorrow where they have a commercial washing machine connected to waste pump. Now, I've never looked at one before and this one has problems with the outlet side of the pump blowing off compression fittings. The outlet's 32mm to a non-return valve, then a 2m or so...
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    Aga Flue

    Evening all. I'm just pricing up my first Aga flue job and have a quick question regarding k-vent and b-vent. Now, including the flue above gutter height total external length will be somewhere between 4 and 4.5m. Now as you can only use b-vent type flue up to 3m externally, can you mix and...
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    Halstead Ace HE 30, no heating.

    Morning, went to look at this yesterday and was first time I'd visited a Halstead HE boiler so just interested to see if any of you have any experience with them. Hot water is working perfectly, just having problems with heating mode. Boiler fires on demand runs for 10 secs or so and shuts...
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    Fire in Lounge, soon to be a bedroom.

    I have a customer who's had a bit of an accident and now requires his Lounge to become his permanent bedroom. Inside this room is a 20 year old gas fire that is in good condition that they still want to use. Obviously, i'm not keen on this at all and would like to know exactly what the regs...
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    Replacing an immersion on a Megaflow

    Hi all, first post so go easy! I do alot of work in the local Mcdonalds stores, repairing leaks, replacing taps, unblocking wastes etc. One of the newer stores has a Megaflow fitted that has an immersion with a faulty element (as identified by an electrician). I'm going to replace the whole...
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