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Thanks guys! I talked to the electrician and he said that it wouldn't hurt to leave it in. He could take it out, if we wanted, just that the new regs said it wasn't required in our case. Since it's erring on the safe side, and would cost me money to have it taken out, I think I'll just...

Hi All: We've just replaced our old CU with a new one with RCD protection. The electrician said that now all the supplimentary bonding in the bathroom was not required. My question is: Should we just leave it alone or hire our electrician to remove it all? Cheers!

Hi David, and thanks for your response. In my first post I said it was an "S" plan, but maybe I didn't make it clear. The details are: Worcester Bosch Greenstar 24i system boiler. DHW comes from a thermal store made by DPS (www.heatweb.com). The thermal store has a bypass fitted...

II see, that's true. I hadn't thought of that. In fact, we were going to make the towel rads dual fuel and run them off electricity in the summer. I think that means you close them off from the main CH system anyway. So that means they wouldn't be suitable for a bypass ... at least not in...

RF Lighting - I don't think they will take standard GU10s. The standard ones would fit too far up in the lamp. Plus there is the heat the standard ones generate. What I'm thinking is that I will give up on this dimmerable technology and just go with straight forward, non-dimming CFLs...

Hi Armo74 - Good point about flushing the system. No, we didn't. I am still working on the house and we are just about to finish the last bedroom. I have another rad to hang there so it might be a good time to just take a breather, flush out everything and clean the whole system. At least...

Thanks toasty and aptsys! I went onto the Megaman website and sent them a message about this. Let's see what they say. I'd settle for replacing the failed dimmerable ones with normal GU10 CFLs. Where I have them in the house, they seem to be holding out. I'll post their response here...

Steve - Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I can't see how we did anything wrong. We followed all the advice on the Megaman website, even down to using dimmer switches they recommended. I think the cheapest option I can try now is to go to Megaman about this and see if they will replace the bulbs...

Hi Everyone: I did a quick search of this site and have discovered several posts reporting trouble with Megaman Dimmerable CFL GU10 lights. We have installed 14 of the warm 11W GU10s here in ceiling downlights. The bulbs came with the light fittings (Flameguard CF409s). There are three...

Hi Armo74. Yup, there is a bypass valve. There is also one rad that has no TRV on it and it's always wide open. It's located where the thermostat will be.

Hi everyone. We have completely refurbished our CH system. There is a new condensing system boiler, all new pipework, new rads and TRVs. We haven't installed a programmable thermostat yet, but that will happen in due course. I have noticed that sometimes, after the CH system has been on...

Lectrician - Thanks for that. I would have just spurred off an existing socket. But the wall is all exposed and it's easy to get to all the cabling. If I'm running one cable I might as well run another one. It will be straight forward to extend the ring. The project has been dormant...

Thanks Adam_151! Ah. Okay, it all makes sense now. I didn't look at the terminals on the back of the Timeguard correctly. Thanks for your help.

I'm installing a dual fuel heated towel rail. It will have an electric element in it to be used in the summer when the central heating is off. In the room adjacent the bathroom there is a suitable socket I can spur off to run a cable to the site (outside the bathroom) where I plan to install...

Thanks Matthew. I'll press on with using it. And I need to wire something today instead of spending it all on the internet researching.