Recent content by jockskinner

So Folks, Is there no answer to the knocking problem and would one of these arrester things help ? Jock.

Hi Jeff, Good of you to jump in to help a disabled pensioner, every little helps. I haven't heard from gigz since Friday night when I had to go to bed due to my angina problems. I am thinking that I may try a water hammer arrester firstly on the washing machine input hose, (its on every day)...

Hi Folks, Unfortunately turning taps on and off has had no effect. I did this last night and there was no hammer noise at the time,(11.00 pm) but there was a noise about 2.00am and again about 5 ish am. Nothing was switched on and no taps or cisterns were used.. My wife said that she heard it...

Hi gigz, I understand what you mean now about taps, I thought you were still talking about the washing machine and the dishwasher. The hammer sound appear to come from under the sink and the sink taps are quarter turn. I will try this tomorrow morning. All the taps in the house are quarter turn...

HI gigz, I am not quite sure what you mean by taps? Both the washing machine and the dishwasher are integrated and would be difficult for me to get a look inside. Is there a simpler way to check this by say...Turning the supply valve off for the dishwasher for a day and the next day repeat...

Hi Gigz, Turning the valves open and shut (1/4 turn) had no effect but I have noticed that there appears to be some kind of trap fitted to one of the appliances between the valve and the appliance.

Hi again, Yes, both the dishwasher and the washing machine have these valves and are situated under the sink and close to the mains water input....I will go and give them a turn and see if they do as you say...Thanks.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that when I had my boiler serviced a couple of months ago I mentioned the bangs to the engineer and he said it was something to do with pressure valves or pressure equalising???

Hi Folks, My wife says it sometimes happens when the dishwater is on, I have heard it after someone has flushed the downstair toilet. I have heard it after I have washed something in the sink .....other times it does it for no reason, nothing on and no water turned on.....spooky.

Hi Folks, I am struggling to track down a knocking which appears to be coming from my kitchen plumbing. It is intermittent so it is difficult to track down because sometime I get a thump every hour or so , or sometimes through the night. the loud thumps are always in ones and appear to come...

When they fail, I remove the whole unit and take it back and get a replacement. I havent seen any starters in these as they are for domestic use. Fluorescent lights use to last for years but unfortunately,like most electrical appliences don't seem to last very long at all. Cheers.

Thanks for the reply, I was kinda worried as it flashed as I dismantled it. I had it switched it off at one switch but not at the other switch. So when I switched it off at the other switch...it still measured 60volts. Thanks again, Jock.

Hi There, I have 2 fleuro lights in my kitchen and I have to replace one or the other every few months. I have just dismantled the latest casualty and I measured the voltage across the two wires with the switch in the off position and it looks like there is 60 volts there. This light was 2...

:( Thus could probably be one of the last posts. It took me about an hour to get the heating on this afternoon. About an hour later the Thomas Graham engineer popped in. Unfortunately the heating was still going fine so gave us the usual story. He switched it on and off about a dozen times...

General update... Needless to say ...Thomas Graham engineer did not phone back on Friday afternoon so we have had intermittent heating over the weekend. Its now Monday and STILL no phonecall from Thomas Graham/dalgetty bay. Had to phone them again and they have said that hopefully their...