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We went to the Brighton Centre today for some Home and Garden event and Tommy Walsh was there hosting Q&A sessions. The last question of the session I saw was about Part P and was asked by a person that had some self build experience. Tommy's answer was that as he clearly was a competent...

Admin, et al. Can the default search properties be changed so it brings up stickies first? It may help people finding threads/posts on commonly answered questions.

Well another year has passed and she forgot my birthday again :( . Don't think she loves me any more.

Help. I installed a new hot water and heating piping at the weekend. it used to have a towel rail and rad in the bathroom that was always on and acted as a bypass so the boiler always could maintain its flow rate. Because we are moving the bathroom and the old one will become an office, its not...

When was imperial pipe phased out? I am doing some water work in my house and think that the darker coloured pipes maybe imperial so won't take the standard speedfit connections. Would that be correct? Ian.

Can multiple fans be vented into the same wall vent if each has a backdraft adapter in them? Anyone done this to stop a building looking like a wall vent showhome or is it better to look at whole house constant ventilation?

THis is the poll that should have been created. Can a fuse in a plug be used to protect a radial with no other suitable overcurrent protection and still comply with 7671? So to be clear. A socket outlet on a cable with no other suitable overcurrent protection for that cable. Please make sure...

Had my surveillance visit yesterday afternoon. Passed but 2 things came out of it. One is I need to do 2382 apparently. Its a new requirement ACAS has put on them so I am told. I have 12 months to do it before my next assessment. The other is I taught the assessor something. He was not aware...

Anyone had a read of this yet?

I have been using this for over a year now mut just lately I feel its not performing as well as it used to. Maybe the database needs reindexing :P . These figures are based on overall timings for the last year. Speed of searches: 9/10 Accuracy of search: 10/10 Friendliness: 10/10 Ability...

Hey all. I remember reading somewhere about some back box liners that could be used to comply with other building regulations (mainly B, E & L1 if memory searves) but can not reacall what they are called so can not find them on the tinterweb. Has anyone seen/heard of these at all (or is...

Guys. Am about to do a CU change and am going to replace the old bell transformer (as its wight in the way) with a din mounted one. I know that all the cables inside the CU must be insulated to 230V (which the old bell wire will not be) so am going to replace part of it with 2 core flex. I am...

So this has been dragging on between a few of us for a lot of posts over a few threads (and years) so I thought I would start a poll to see what people think. I would ask that you read 542.1 FULLY before voting on this though even if you believe you know the answer already. The proposed...

Do you think Brian should become a full member of the Smilies collective? He wants to be used more but is just waiting for a chance to shrugshine for us all.

Has The Don (+ his boys) gone? He is listed as retired now. Who will we get to send people round to do intimidation and wet work?

After the recent accessory heights threads I thought I would post this pic (not my work). A new partition wall has been created and someone installed the sockets at what looks like 45mm (not even sure its that high) instead of 45cm off the finished floor level. I know its not the typical...

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Guys (and gals obviously). I use easy cert and easy cert mobile when filling out certs and hate having to carry around a pocketpc device as well as an iphone. I asked tysoft about an iphone/ipod touch version of easy cert mobile and they said if there was a demand they would create one but I...

Hey guys (and girls). I have just stuck a new "microsite" up and wanted to get some feedback if its not too much trouble. http://macwire.co.uk. Thanks. Ian.

Hey all Anyone see any issues with running some of this into a wall to allow speaker cables to be put in and changed? Ian.