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I've come up with this. Should do the trick.

Well I had noticed with the old switch that there wasn't much range in the light level when adjusting it but there was at least enough of one to make a difference. A minimum rating of 40w so far seemed to be the only dimmer I could find though. Most others I've come across are rated 60w and...

Hello. I have two lights in one room controlled by a dimmer switch, I put two 20w energy saving bulbs in the sockets a while back (special ones that work with dimmers), but they'd often flicker at lower light levels and after a while the switch stopped working all together. I later found out...

It's a y-plan, open vented. A blockage somewhere would certainly explain some things. I have a fairly powerful magnet actually, might try running it along some feed pipes to see what happens. The gas coming out of the radiator certainly smells funny. Suppose the first thing that comes to mind...

The last one I called to fix a leak charged me 200 quid inc vat. I really can't afford that sort of thing at this current time.

Hi. Have a fairly large house, 13 rads. Gasoil boiler. Heating used to be ok many years ago, but boiler broke down a while back, couldn't afford to get it fixed so had no heating for about three months during a really really cold snap. Couldn't have happened at a worse time really, because it...

You never know, maybe you'll read about me in the future. I've always wanted to be in a magazine. Anyway, joking aside I have grasped the dangers, I wouldn't have done it if I thought I might kill myself. Be assured I was not in any immediate danger. For all intents and purposes I was...

Well the flu should be OK because I had it replaced last year. It was gassing me because I'd removed the section of the roof where it ran past so while I was there I was essentially head-height with the exhaust. Will the boiler work ok without those two busted plates in it? As I understand...

I've just opened my Grant Euroflame (50/70 I think) boiler up to have a look see inside, because it's been cutting out a lot, and was shocked to find some of the interior plates have been devastated by extreme heat. Well, two of them have. There are several plates in there but the two nearest...

Basically the machine was working fine, then out of the blue it has started stopping before it finishes the program. Right now, if I put it on a any program number or a rinse cycle it'll go through it until it comes to the drainage cycle, then there's this clonk sound inside the machine and some...