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by antony5378
Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:34 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Earth cable live when live cable connected ?!
Replies: 3
Views: 17120

Earth cable live when live cable connected ?!

This is a bit puzzling. I'm wiring a light switch in my kitchen, when i connect the lives from the ring to the live for the light, the earth cable is also living-up. The earth is unconnected at both ends, so the current must be transferring from the live to the earth, without actually being in conta...
by antony5378
Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:20 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: What should I pay for new piping?
Replies: 2
Views: 2938

Difficult to say unless you specify meters. If you're wanting cheapest, use plastic push fit piping, copper is pretty expensive at the minute. Push-fit fittings cost more than copper but there twice as quick to fit, with half the mess.
by antony5378
Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:16 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: hot water pipes
Replies: 2
Views: 2939

Depends which push fit fittings have been fitted, e.g. "speed-fit" fittings can be unscrewed, "poly fit" fittings are permanent. If there's no way of unscrewing the fitting, it's permanent, unless you break it off with a bit of force. If the fittings attached to copper, fitting c...
by antony5378
Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:57 pm
Forum: Conversion, Refurbishment and Renovation Forum
Topic: Widening a door
Replies: 4
Views: 7816

The best way to this is 1. make a hole central above the existing lintel by removing two bricks. Push a 1.5m (about) length of 4"x4" piece of timber through the hole (so theres an equal length of timber either side of the wall), and prop either end of the timber with acro props. (hire from...
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