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  1. Reg Man

    how much to charge

    Can come round my house at those rates, but about right if you want to build up on business.
  2. Reg Man

    CP12 hob

    If it don't operate in accordance with MI's its NCS in this situation.
  3. Reg Man

    Is this wrong?

    Thank you auto editor but you get my drift.
  4. Reg Man

    Is this wrong?

    Was ****ting it.
  5. Reg Man

    Is this wrong?

    The last lead joint I wiped was about 35 years ago, on a 2" water main to a school at 7.00pm down a hole on a November night throwing it down with rain with let by on the valve. As far as I know it is still ok to this day.
  6. Reg Man

    Is this wrong?

    Or even turn-pin and bobbins and followers. Nostalgia don't you love it.
  7. Reg Man

    Is this wrong?

    Sorry that would have been the answer 40 years ago. If we had the internet.
  8. Reg Man

    Is this wrong?

    Cut the lead back, use a brass feral and wipe a joint with your mole skin, tallow and plumbers metal. lol.
  9. Reg Man

    Cut and cap a fire?

    At least with a mechanical fitting it makes purging easier. Nothing more to be said.
  10. Reg Man

    New gas supply - distance from U6 meter

    The gas meter is capable of providing the likely demand. The gas installation pipe will have to be sized according to the pressure drop over the run, which can be calculated by the gas safe registered engineer. The gas installation pipe must not be ducted under foundations. You can bring it up...
  11. Reg Man

    Intermittent and annoying Sewer Gas smell in the flat

    As it is intermittent and at peak times my money is on poor design sucking a trap out somewhere. You can get anti siphon traps as a cheap fix for poor design.
  12. Reg Man

    Question re: water softener and waste from unit

    As long as there is no risk of contamination of water supply, then soil stack is a good method, as the water is brackish and therefore should not discharge into the land course.
  13. Reg Man

    Disciplinary Hearing Help

    There endith the lesson. Is the company there to support you, or just there to dispense with you when things go wrong?
  14. Reg Man

    Already bought a boiler, would a engineer fit it .

    Were they gas safe registered and would they fit customers boiler?
  15. Reg Man

    Intermittent and annoying Sewer Gas smell in the flat

    Water seals not only on wc, but on all water traps on the waste system. May be poor design of waste system sucking the water out of a trap. Look at anti-siphon traps or venting the waste system
  16. Reg Man

    Already bought a boiler, would a engineer fit it .

    I does not matter which manufacturer of boiler is chosen, as long as it is installed by a competent person and registered with building control.
  17. Reg Man

    Gas pipe sleeve for 28mm

    I never iron my pants, if someone else chooses to do then that's their business.
  18. Reg Man

    Gas meter bonding

    BS 6891 section 8.16 figure 9. Preferred location at point of entry.
  19. Reg Man

    Baxi Bermuda b fire front on bbu

    Not on the old ones.
  20. Reg Man

    Termination into boundary .

    With a bit of digging I can probably find the pre- 2000 BS5440 standard and part J building regs. But in all of my career I have known it as a no, to terminate a flue across a boundary; which goes back to 1970's.

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