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• Install Bar Shower Valve - stud wall
  The wall can now be boarded over with the threaded tails protruding through holes in the board to the right depth for fitting to the valve after tiling. The gap between the tails and the board can be sealed with a suitable mastic, and/or sealant applied
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• Backup power, Installing a transfer switch
  ...rge (which is good, since it allows plenty of space to wrestle 25mm² meter tails into it) could only really go in one of two locations. ...nclosure has 32mm and 25mm "knock outs" on both top and bottom. Using two "tails" glands, and one smaller T&E gland, makes a tidy cable entry with strain re
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• Replace a radiator
  When all drained, the nuts on the radiator tails were undone, enabling the rad to be lifted off. Bigger rads need 2 people t ...utties|putty]]. The new rad also had its threads wiped with putty, and the tails screwed into it as shown.
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• Installing a concealed shower mixer valve (retrofit)
  In this case, the valve tails were somewhat wider than the actual faceplate - especially when pipes were The pipe tails to the shower enter from the sides in a pair of 15mm compression fittings,
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• Changing a consumer unit
  ...ity meter unless an additional [[CU|switch fuse]] is fitted to protect the tails. They should not be mounted on the electricity suppliers meter board (altho ...e double pole devices will accommodate splits of both the Line and Neutral tails of a typical domestic supply in a single unit.
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• Earthing & equipotential bonding
  The bare tails of earth conductors must be insulated with green/yellow sleeving from the e ...to the connection block with the neutral conductor of the supplier's meter tails. Often you will see a label warning about "Protective Multiple Earthing Ins
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• Central heating design
  ====Tails==== ...For "designer" radiators or towel radiators in bathrooms chromed radiator tails are often preferred. Since chrome is very hard it is necessary to remove th
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• Adding sockets
  ...e one circuit then becomes 2x radial circuits. At the [[CU|fusebox]] the 2 tails are separated, each getting its own [[fuse]]. Splitting the circuit like th
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• Cables
  ==Tails== ...mmonly available from distributors as colour coded lengths in pairs. Older tails may only have a single layer of insulation.
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• Taking electricity outside
  ...r units. Probably the most elegant way to use this it to take the existing tails from the meter into a master switch first, and insert the Henley block afte ...tch, and new tails feed out to the connector block. From here two pairs of tails run to different consumer units)
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• Historic Mains Cables
  ** where the inner rubber has failed, the tails can be sleeved
  7 KB (1,056 words) - 19:04, 25 January 2019
• Central Heating maintenance without draining down
  '''''Note on rad tails''' - in places with a suspended floor the pipe may tend to drop if not fixe
  11 KB (1,971 words) - 11:37, 14 July 2022
• Old electrical installations
  | Undersized meter tails
  9 KB (1,461 words) - 04:49, 1 December 2012
• Earthing Types
  ...ring the box at the top right hand side, and dropping to the head end. The tails and main earth wire then head off into the building to connect to the consu
  12 KB (1,916 words) - 00:37, 24 October 2020
• House Wiring for Beginners
  *Live & Neutral [[cables#Tails|tails]] from the [[:Category:Electrical|electricity]] meter to the [[#CU|CU]]
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• Lead acid battery construction
  ...electrode to enable wire connection to be made away from the acid bath. 2 tails makes keeping it in place easier. Capacity is in the region of 1Ah per one
  11 KB (1,638 words) - 23:27, 2 January 2020
• Fuse
  ...]] or fusebox it is necessary to de-energise the supply. Working with live tails is not a good plan.
  11 KB (1,743 words) - 09:10, 5 October 2022
• The secret diary of a bathroom refurbishment
  ...floorboards needed to come up. Alas it turned out that put one of the rad tails right over a RSJ with only a half inch gap between the top of it and the un ...more tricky since there is a rats nest of copper under the floor near the tails which makes cutting in and extending the pipe work tricky. Eventually got t
  48 KB (8,920 words) - 13:07, 28 December 2021
• Central heating flushing
  ...worthwhile making up some adaptors to enable a hose to be connected to the tails of a radiator. Thus by removing a radiator and then connecting to either th
  16 KB (2,640 words) - 10:54, 17 February 2020
• Plumbing
  ...in the pipe from the street to the main indoor stopcock, and sometimes in tails to taps and WCs etc. It is also sometimes found in connections into and/or
  15 KB (2,471 words) - 12:45, 24 January 2022

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