I have been a plumber for over 40 years and one question I have heard over and over again is “What can you do to improve my mains water pressure?”. For a lot of my career, the answer was “not much” because boosting the flow and pressure on water mains used to require a complicated and expensive set-up or a …
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Which one of the hundreds of tubes should you grab from the shelf of your builder's merchant or buy online?
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What are cavity trays, do you need to use them and if so, where are they used?
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