Recent content by CarlH

I don't know if the FLA01 would stop an LED bulb glowing dimly as the circuity of the ZV600 made its connection to Neutral through its diodes. The FLA01 is intended for connection to a FLU, where there are accessible terminals for its two tails. It should also stop the emf of the ballast of a...

The problem is that the auto circuitry in the switch has to stay live to preserve the timer settings. Obviously, it needs this even when the lamp is off. It stays live from the constant live at the COM terminal of the switch, returning to Neutral via a suitable conductor in the lamp. So these...

This what I have understood. You pre-set the flow rate for the flow section of this type of valve. This is maintained automatically when (if) the pump pressure changes. The device incorporates semi-separately the usual automatic flow-modulating thermostatic valve function. Normally the flow...

I have succeeded in removing the "guilty party" from the wardrobe door. Despite their heads the "screws" have proved to be 1/4 turn fasteners. When they are a 1/4-turn turned back to the stop point, the nylon sockets within which they turn are no longer expanded in their bores in the "monkey...

Your suggestion is along the lines that had occurred to me, and that I mooted, but this does not release the control arm hinge mounting. I guess the "screws" must be either what you suggest, or, as already advised, normal hinge screws, but possibly with a large diameter thread (like a chipboard...

The attached photo is of a Hettich controller for the bifold action of a Nolte wardrobe door. The controller in the photo is working normally, but another of the total four does not allow its bifold door to close without a second (human) hand to help it. If no second hand, it judders and jams...

Thanks for the two replies:- 2. The smell of gas is very slight, and intermittent. If I report it as a gas leak the boiler will probably be "condemned". I've just spent £200 on the new gas valve, so it needs the engineer with the replacement valve to be persuaded to come back to fix the...

A few months ago this splendid boiler (1997, and still performing excellently), intermittently, but with increasing frequency, started failing to light the burner. There was a repeated clicking sound. This was similar to the noise made by the igniter relay on the gas side of our caravan fridge...

Did you try the Google link that you suggest? That very link was my first "port of call" and it turned up nothing. I then phoned R-H and was told that no spare parts are available (as usual, the appliance is made "for them" in China). I haven't found anything on U-tube relevant to this repair...

We've decided against a heat-pump tumble drier for the same reason that we didn't go for the condensing type. We can use a vented drier with a very short exhaust duct because the drier backs on to an outside wall. The running cost is appreciably higher than that of a condensing one, and a lot...

It's a Russell-Hobbs plate warmer/heater. Element has failed. Not a proper one-piece rigid element, but a 1.5 metre (approx - hard to measure in place) length of spiral-wound heating resistance wire encapsulated in ceramic material. It's secured at several insulated and heat-resistant points...

Thanks, Ian, Your argument is interesting, especially as the joint you refer to is between a clay gully outlet stub and the collared end of a pitch fibre drain pipe. Such a joint might well become leaky over 51 years due to the different expansion and contraction rates of the improvised means...

Many thanks for all the responses. May I cover them all here, please?:- PITCH FIBRE DRAIN PIPE Yes, this does not have a good reputation. Like plastic drain pipe (but even more so), it is sensitive to ground pressure, so needs good ballasting - not just laying straight into sometimes...

I don't think that the gully trap contains anything like as much water as the WC trap. The WC pan is a Twyford's "Classic" pan, with a very large, deep trap and the old-fashioned large diameter outlet from trap to soil piper/drain pipe. The pan is a modern slight re-working of a very old...

As is (or used to be?) normal, this WC in our downstairs bathroom is connected direct to the drains. No vent pipe. Occasionally the sewer surcharges sufficiently for water in the chamber through which the effluent from this WC passes to rise and cover the inlet into the chamber from the WC. This...