Search results

Hello, I have a problem with an overflow pipe that juts out from the first floor of my 3 bedroom house. Most days now for the last few weeks, there is a steady stream of water emerging from this pipe onto the roof of our lean-to immediately below; always it seems, in the early hours of...

Maybe I'll try it again and see if I was testing it in the right place. Sounds like I didn't do it right.

3.6 was the only reading I could manage from any of the points on the element so I presume that where I didn't get any reading at all was at the place where the element wasn't working.

Finally managed to test the shower's heating element and it gave a reading of 3.6 ohms on my multimeter. Does this mean that one of the elements inside is still working? Also, is it straightforward to replace the element as I've seen them for sale at around £45 (but possibly still no guarantee...

Have just managed to switch off the electrics and have a look at the ceiling box. The "plate" wouldn't come off as the wires coming from the ceiling were far too short. Inside the box, nothing seems to have melted or burned out. Also discovered today that we have a Volex Protector 2...

I've removed the screws but the pull cord still won't budge and the plastic "plate" attached to the ceiling box just won't come off.

Hi, I've checked the mains fuse (downstairs) and there's nothing there which has tripped. I should point out that we've had the shower for at least 3 years (possibly much longer as we've only lived here for the last 2 years.) Do you know how I can get into the ceiling box to check the...

Hello there, I have a problem with the electrics on my Triton Ivory II shower. It suddenly stopped working the other night after a particularly cold weather spell in which I felt I had to turn the thermostat up to 10 to obtain water at a reasonable temperature (we normally run...

I don't remember which way the light was wired and even so, it would be different to the spotlight wiring as the strip light only had one or 2 pairs of wires coming from it. Is there any other way of discovering which are the primary and which are the slave wires without using a multimeter? (I...

Hello, I've recently removed an old fluorescent strip light from my kitchen to replace it with a more modern spotlight consisting of 4 bulbs. I'd guess that the old light has been there since the 70s or 80s and has a confusing array of paired brown and red wiring making it very...

Hello, I've recently bought a 200yr. old cottage abroad quite cheaply with the view to renovate the place myself as and when I can. One of the features of the house that needs some attention is the roof - though only cosmetically it seems i.e. it's structurally sound but rather grey with...

Thanks to all who replied with their advice. I did eventually manage to locate the area where the pilot light and igniter wire meet and held a match (soaked in a small amount of wax to keep it burning longer and taped to a chopstick) in the general direction of the two. It lit fairly easily and...

Hello, I'm looking for some independent advice on my Glow Worm Majorca which I estimate is probably over 25 years old - maybe older. Last winter was our first in our new house and we had to call out a heating engineer twice because the pilot light blew out (not cheap at £80 a time.) We...