Recent content by pcorpe

Hi folks, I have a modern (9year old) house, with a room at the top (gable) in the pitch. in this room there is some wasted space into the eve voids i have an ideal spot (hidden in a cupboard) for fitting a wall hatch on one side however on hacking out a good hole i've found 2...

Folks thank to one and all, the diodes as a bridge rectifier thingy did the trick, chuffed to bits, thanks again regards Pete

Gents, many many thanks, there's a wealth of knowledge far greater than my own!. I'm very happy with a soldering iron, however i confess talk of capacitors, rectifiers and the like sounds complicated to me, i've been searching high and low for a suitable ac relay, which is what led me to...

Can you help me solve this one? I have an existing doorbell with 2 ringers (3 storey house), that is mains powered (12v ac transformer) i want to add a second ringer, only i want it to be wireless for in the garden, so i've got a wireless push and cordless ringer, and disassembled the...

OK thanks guys, so is it any specific type of tape? and would it not make sense to plaster the hole behind thus preventing it happening again? how much? some rooms worse than others, but certainly enough to cause a challenge, i guess about 20-30ft in the whole house

Hi, sounds like screen is on it's way out, guessing this is an lcd screen and not a crt (tube based) try on a different machine, incase it's resolution/refresh rate related, fix? tends to be cheaper to replace these days, but dell sometimes had 3 years warranty on these so might be worth giving...

Hi Folks, I've got a fairly new house (5 years) and i'm starting to think about fixing some of the cracks from settling etc. However in quite a few rooms i have what's been described as 'blown tapes' what's the simplest way or repairing these? do i remove the blown section then plaster to...

so coming back to the original question, how tight should the syphon nut be? instructions say finger tight and a quarter turn with spanner. and how tight for the wing nuts, referring to earlier posts not so tight as the bend the coupling?

RigidRaider, yeah fair point given the choice i'd use a 3/4" socket set for eveything, but alias it's not the correct way i'm told. the house, and the rest of the estate is not the best quality, some folks had hot water plumbed into their wc's! we just had 2 structural internal walls moved...

Folks, many thanks for the suggestions, glad to see i'm not alone on this one. the existing wc/cistern/syphon etc is only 2 years old, (it's a new ish house) but the builders fitted the cheapest nastiest stuff where possible, we'd already had one of these replaced as the flush no longer...

OK, so first attempt, i've recently replaced the syphon on 2 wc's one works fine the other has a leak. its a close coupled unit (both are) Fitted the syphon with the flat rubber ring on the inside of the cistern then the close coupling bracket then the large plastic nut onto the syphon...

Cool, thanks for your help. Have contacted the manufacturer and they also think the master is faulty, and are sending a replcement in the post, no questions asked, good service. time will tell what the solution is, but thanks for all your help anyway. regards Pete

the light is a 2 switch set-up wih a slave at one end, and a multi-way master at the other. is there any way of proving which switch is faulty? thanks pete

Folks, I've wired up the varilight switch, and it works really well..... except that the light never actually turns off, it stays on really really dim, any ideas? many thanks Pete