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Hi, A friend of mine has an Ideal Isar boiler which has been installed for 12 years. His central heating has been playing up recently, it needs filling on a regular basis as one of the rads is leaking (I'll try and tackle this later). However his hot water has now stopped working completely...

Hi We have a storage heater and have recently redecorated the room. The storage heater wires now look really out of place so I was wondering if it would be OK for me to hide them in the wall. We have 3 units on the wall. From left to right we have a 20A DP switch for the storage heater, a 13A...

Hi, We're starting to strip our mums kitchen in prep for fitting a new one. When I removed the induction hob I noticed that it was fed directly from the rear of the plug socket that was designated for her cooker. The socket is fed with 6mm cable direct to a cooker switch above the worktop...

Hi, My mum lives in a flat where the hot water is supplied from a vented combination cylinder. As you probably know the hot water pressure is very very low in this situation and as I understand it the only ways of boosting pressure are either a) raise the height of the tank or b) use an...

Hi, Our bathroom ceiling has both a loft hatch and downlighters installed. Another (easier to access) loft hatch has been installed elsewhere and the downlighters are pretty shoddy so rather than fill in the gaps left in the ceiling we feel it'd be easier to simply replace the entire ceiling...

So today I started topping up the existing 100mm insulation in our flat with 200mm Krauf stuff. I've read on various sites that you're not to cover any electrical wiring with insulation due to the fact you'll be de-rating the current carrying capacity of the cable, but the consensus is lighting...

Recently replaced a pair of faulty thermostats with Backer resetting types when I realised that the Backer stats don't have the temperature written on them, for example: I've read that the ideal temperature is around 60c but how am I supposed to set it to this temperature, other than...

Hi, I have a few questions regarding the plumbing at my mums place. 1.) She's looking at getting a new shower fitted, and while we're at it I thought it would be nice to conceal the pipework so it isn't on show. The shower sits on plasterboard and I'm 99% certain there's a gap big enough...

I really love this style but struggle to find anywhere that sells the whole range ( brushed chrome flat switches / plug sockets / etc) If you know of any retailers who sell this stuff at not-too-silly prices it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)

Not sure if this is the correct forum, but... A couple of years ago we put up a curtain pole at my mums place. The curtain pole hangers have come loose twice and each time I drilled new holes, assuming I'd done it wrong the first time. They're falling out of the wall again. I can tell you...

My mum lives in the top floor of a three story flat. Ever since she's been there the toilet has never worked properly, or at least how I'd consider a toilet to. Any solid waste requires at least two flushes, sometimes more. When you flush the water runs away fine so it's not a blockage, it just...

Hi, Where my mum lives there's no gas supply available to her. This means she has to use electric panel heaters to provide warmth to the flat. Where she used to live, she had gas central heating and a thermostat on the wall which could be adjusted / timed so the house would be warm before...

Hi there, My old man is currently fitting an electric cooker (belling kensington 90e), and the problem is we are missing the wiring documentation. I'm fairly sure I know how to wire it up, but I thought I'd seek clarification from the experts first :) The cooker is rated at 14KW. I've...

Hi, I have some questions that have been bugging me and I was hoping you'd be able to help :) 1.) So let's say we have a 100A main fuse (incommer fuse?) which goes to an 80A RCD in a comsumer unit, feeding 2 x 32A, 1 x 40A and 2 x 6A MCB's. As I understand it, RCD's do not offer...

Hi, Recently I decided to check out my the Economy 7 switching times at my mums flat, as I had a suspicion it wasn't switching on at the 11:30pm - 6:30am printed on the meter. Rather than wait up all night watching the meter, I decided to utilise the british gas energy monitor I had. The...

Hi there, My mother lives in a flat with Economy 7. One of the storage heaters was removed before she moved in, and so we're left with an Economy 7 spur. She has asked me if it's possible to convert the unused spur to a plug socket, so she can have a lamp there. I'm thinking of replacing...

Hi, My mum has a washing machine and we'd like to set it to it only operates during the Economy 7 hours. I proposed using a plug in timer, however the space between the washing machine and the wall socket is very tight that a timer would probably not fit in there. Controlling the plug...

Hi, My mum lives in a flat with no gas supply, and is running on Economy 7. She uses an electric shower so the immersion heater is rarely switched on. I've just been wondering what the point of the hot water inlet on the washing machine is. As far as I can tell, it draws in the right...

Hi, I was wondering if there was some kind of meter/device available that can record at what times a power supply switches on and off. I'd like to time exactly when my mothers Eco7 supply switches on and off (almost impossible for me to tell as she's always out..) but I'm sure I'd find a use...

Hi. My mum recently moved in to a flat which has Economy7 and an immersion heater installed. I remember reading somewhere that the bottom element of the heater is for Economy7 heating during the night, and the top element is for 'boost' heating. Today I noticed that the neon light on the...