Home DIY

Indeed. binit.thameswater.co.uk/

wow i ordered myself a fat trap....this should be interesting!

I am a convert to the paint pad, having just done half a bedroom, as I have run out of paint and the paint is old so quite thick. Have an artexed ceiling and deciding which to use or leave it....Leave it is winning at the mo.

People who change the meter will probably be G4s (good fucking luck) or morrisons messing about with pipes is someone else. That is privatisation for you. Each bit by someone else.

Oh moving meters can be considered tampering...now which law does that break?

The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998

keep up!

ordered..

Forest Hill, and thanks

http://www.builderdepot.co.uk/1l-one-shot-drain-cleaner.html?gclid=CM_-0q7msMUCFSvJtAodkDAA9g

Thats because it's 99%+ sulphuric acid. Be very careful using it, it'll melt plastic pipes due to the heat generated.

One shot is a bit less sulphuric 91% and organic digestors and PURPLE....

http://www.e-hygienesystems.com/coshh/sheets/One%20Shot%20Drain%20Cleaner.pdf

So might as well use caustic soda or muric acid...

So, in summary, no on has any experience of this?

I do. We had ours moved a few years ago as part of doing up the cellar.

Our builder said don't use the gas board, they'll insist on turning the gas off to the whole street and it will cost you a fortune. He got his gas fitter mate to come and do it 'live' on the side, cost £100 or something.

Possibly not technically legal but we saved a lot of money and there was no large explosion. I'd point you to the gas fitter but I doubt he'd go south of the river (or even far out of Hackney for that matter).

Oh, don't get me wrong. Highly concentrated sulfuric acid is great! I had access to litres of it at my previous place of employment. Melts through blockages like nothing else but it does get a little hot.

However on the whole 9/10. Would use to dispose of the victims again.

Anyone good at wallpapering want to help me finish a small room in SE23 for cash money, gold, frankincense etc.

I am making a huge fucking pigs ear of this and need to be saved from myself.

Is this need a hand or can you do it?

Guess who broke a double glazed window unit showing someone how easy it is to remove the beading ;)

Oh how they sorry I laughed.

Gave up and got a bloke in to finish it. Best £100 I ever spend. Never again.

Been there done that. Imagine trying to do it with your dad and finding out he's as rubbish at it as I am.

At the risk of making certain people in this thread lose their shit (and bear with me as I don't know all the correct terms) do regs allow for mains cables to be joined behind a plug face plate?
In my kitchen I have under cabinet lights. The supply from the CU goes to cabinets on the left hand side of a chimney breast. The electrician chased a cable up the wall, through the ceiling and down the wall to the right side cabinets so that the lights could be wired in series. The issue is I'm using low voltage LEDs and there is only space for the transformer behind the cabinets on the right hand side so the mains cables need to be joined together to bring the mains power to the right hand side. Can these be crimped behind the faceplate of a double socket which is on the left hand side under the cabinets? There isn't room for a junction box and removing the plaster/cabinets etc isn't an option.

I'm knackered after two successive weekends spent in the garden lifting a hideous concrete fake crazy paved path and replacing it with the leftover bits of sandstone from when we had our patio done about 6 years ago. I met many evil-looking spiders, millions of ants, buried house bricks and giant flint nodules. I wrestled with claggy clay, an angle grinder, a bent claw hammer and the roots of a mallow tree. I got through 12 large bags of sharp sand and perfected my use of the rear-wheel steering on the B&Q trolleys. I rewarded myself with one (1) can of fake Heineken.

1 Attachment

At my flat currently have a shower hose coming from the bath like this

and pressure as soon as you move the shower head more than 50cm above the taps becomes stupidly weak.

I replaced the hose for a wide bore one but this has no effect. Is there any tips to improve it without having a pump or power shower installed? any recommnedations on low pressure shower heads?

Wouldn't narrowing the hose provide an increase in pressure?

No, you want a big a bore as possible to get the best pressure out of the mains supply. We've got poor pressure in our house and spent quite a bit of money having the supply from the street enlarged and that's helped a bit. But the shower on the top floor still dries up when someone runs a bath downstairs.

Nah i was smashing windows...

Thames water will send you a free water saving shower head that helps http://freebies.thameswater.co.uk/

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/help-and-advice/16836.htm

Congratulations on mental discipline regarding self reward.
An observation on evil-looking spiders: if you're lucky they are thriving by eating swarms of bendy-legged blood sucking mosquito type bastards that would otherwise spoil a good barbecue by being higher in the food chain than you are.
BTW nice path - didn't destroy the lawn or border - well done.