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Hi, My Pulsacoil 2000 in an apartment in Birmingham needs replacing. Its now 15 years old. My tenants have been topping the cold tank up several times a year the last 2-3 years. I checked and it looks wet and rusty at the bottom of the cylinder Replacement has to be another Open vented thermal...

I am in process of choosing underground motors for my new iron gates 13ft wide, 6ft high. Any opinions between CAME Frog AE vs FAAC 770N, both 24V versions. I think both are italian manufacturers. I am assuming parts are readily available for both in the UK. Anyone prefer one over the other...

Hi, Currently my driveway has been dug up and building walls and pillars. Sometime in near future I plan to get electric iron gates. I have decided I will use underground CAME Frog AE24v gate motors. The control panel for this takes a 230V supply and then has its own transformer to convert...

Hi, Building a retaining wall on my driveway after cutting into a slope. Slope is no higher than 1m at its max. The wall will be double with blocks to hold soil in and bricks on facing side all tied in. So I know solid concrete blocks will manage to retain this slope. However could I get away...

Hi all, I have a Texecom Premier Elite 48 panel with Ricochet expander. I have a ComIP installed in the panel but cant work out how to connect to it. I have setup from the keypad the UDL options for COM1 port to be the ComIP. I have setup IP Data to assign a IP address based on my router...

I have a 1930s house. All the frames are 44mm thick. I need to replace all internal 13 doors with 5 of them glazed. Struggling to find 44mm doors they seem to be almost double the price of standard 35mm thick doors as most seem to be fire doors. Looking for oak type. There is no real option...

I currently have a conventional boiler and open vent cylinder with 2 water tanks up in the loft. I have a 1930s 4 bed detached house. i want to get rid of the cylinder and tanks and so convert to a combi boiler. currently considering the Vaillant ecotec plus 937. It will be very rare for two...

Hi today I installed my texecom premier elite 48 panel on a solid brick wall. The panel had plastic stand off spacer/feet on the back and therefore once installed on the wall there is a gap between the panel and wall because of the stand off feet. This is great as it allows easy routing of...

Looking around for Texecom Premier 48 Ricochet Kits and components I have come across some that are marketed as Premier Elite and others just Premier or Premier Prestige. Am i right in assuming that Premier Elite is a new range released recently in August 2012? I understand they are more...

I understand when I purchase a Texecom Premier 48 Ricochet kit I do not get any installation manual. Can anyone tell me where to get the latest install manuals for this system? thanks.

Hi, I am looking to purchase my Texecom Premier 48 Ricochet Kit. The cheapest I could find was from cts-direct.net. I also need to purchase extra quad sensors, Odyssey Bell box, battery, elite keypads, etc. I found only cts-direct.net, citysecuritysystems and securitywarehouse gave the...

I am looking at getting a Menvier SD3 GSM Dialler along with a Texecom Premier 48. The Menvier SD3 GSM Dialler has a built in microphone and speaker so you can listen in to first 30secs of alram activation or speak through speaker from another location. So question is where is best place to...

Hi Does anyone know if it's possible and how to switch on some lights when the alarm is triggered. I will be getting a texecom premier elite 48 I know it has x10 automation controls. So is there some way to get the texecom panel to switch on say the hallway and landing lights and some outside...

Hi Looking to get one of these alarm panels. I want some wireless capability. I understand the elite 48-w is a plastic model with wireless built in and a grade 2 system. The elite 48 is a metal panel grade 3 system and have to buy the 32xp-w expander to make it wireless. Which is the better...