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A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo 'foot of a stall') or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase, and of a column in architecture. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In civil engineering, it is also called basement. The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings). It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for the filling inside the plinth or raised floor.
An elevated pedestal or plinth which bears a statue and which is raised from the substructure supporting it (typically roofs or corniches) is sometimes called an acropodium. The term is from Greek ἄκρος ákros 'topmost' and πούς poús (root ποδ- pod-) 'foot'.

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    Plinth heaters

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    TRv's and plinth heaters

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    Plinth convector heaters

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    Myson or Smiths plinth heater

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    Fortic cylinder=very low pressure

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    plinth heaters

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    Moving toilet / new waste pipe run

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    I could kick myself!

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    Wimmin's Birthdays.

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    thoughts please no hot water in kitchen

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    90 degree bend in polybutylene pipe within elbow

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    Pipe to be or pipe not to be

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    Dismantling toilet waste pipe?

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    Plinth Heaters

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    Free standing bath against wall advice please

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