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Hello Chaps, My worcester bosch 35HE condensing combi supposedly has a 'keep hot' facility where the immediate use hot tap water is kept hot so when the hot tap is turned on, hot water is supplied quickly. However ours takes ages to supply hot water at the taps, we're really wasting water...

I have a wall socket that is fed from a single FT&E cable, so I presume it must be a spur or a radially fed socket. I need to fit a socket in the chimney breast 3 foot from this socket to supply a 2kw electric fire. It is rumoured (down the pub) that if I fit a fused outlet (next to and...

Hello Team, I have moved into a house that has a prefab double garage built 15 meters away from the house. This garage has no gutters or drainage so the rainwater just runs off the roof and pours onto the garden either side. The ground here is now in a right mess. Has anyone got any ideas...

Thanks for your reply, the tiles are flat, basically the tiles are just slightly 'not sitting as flat as thay were'. They have nibs hooked over battens. The tiles sit on top of each other, its where the tiles actually sit on each other that I was thinking of sealing. The tiles only leak when...

My tiled roof is 80 years old, has been surveyed twice and they say its got lots of life left in it... However, the backpointing (or sometimes called tiering) has all dissappeared now, so when it rains its OK, but when its windy and raining, some water is being blown inside onto the joists...

Yeah, I have used a socket by hand, but I want something the Mrs could use in an emergency as this 'tap' is easier to get to than the one under the floor in our downstairs bog.....geddit?! Also need more socket extensions than there are in my set!

Hello Team, Does anyone know where you can buy a long-handled 'key' for isolating the new united utilities 'outside in the pavement' water main valve? The valve actuator is a 17mm green hexagonal hex-head. I imagine its about two foot long with a 'T' handle, but I can't find one even on the...

Hello, We had kettling on our system, turns out the boiler inlet was configured as the system outlet, and the boiler outlet was the system inlet, ie, wrongly piped but had worked for about 6 months like this! .....

Hello Team, Does anyone know where I can get a new grill element for a Creda Europa Solar Plus cooker, model 48145S? Only half has gone but I have been quoted £150 for a new element !!! This new element comes with all the housing, etc and seems a real rip-off. Can anyone help? Cheers

So, no easy solution really, I was hoping some one made a supertrick backbox that would make the whole episode easy......

I'm trying to move a socket that is mounted in a skirting board up into the wall above. However the wall is made of plaster/'hair' and lath. it seems to be too thick to use a dry-lining box, but I cannot see how to use a metal backbox as there's nothing but fresh air in the space behind the...

Has anyone any comments on the effectiveness of that thermal spray-on stuff that bonds to the inside of your old tile roof, thus insulating, rain-proofing, holding tiles, etc (according to the adverts). It seems a good idea; but what about letting the wood battens 'breathe' ? My 70 year old...

2.5mm FT&E, many thanks my friend.

Hello Again, Can someone give a quick answer? 3 sockets on a radial circuit from the consumer unit, ie one cable leaving the Mcb looped into each socket last socket has one cable only, (ie not a dual cabled ring main): What size MCB 16A or 32A?

Well basically at the moment the radial circuits are off 30A fuses and the two rings are off 30A fuses. Why should the purpose of the sockets have anything to do with it? It depends on what gets plugged into the sockets doesn't it? Presently one ring main has a fridge, a socket currently...

Hello, Have searched the site to no avail so must post... My house has two ring mains of sockets plus two radial circuits of sockets. If I replace the CU with a split load, should the radial circuit MCBs be 16A or 32A as per the rings? Cheers

Er, Good Points, I'll have a look tonight and get back to you..... The 'electrical chap' (NICEIC accredited...ahem) suggested that it was just a more normal and sensible way of doing things. Basically, Yes, i want to retain 2 CUs to avoid rewiring completely.

Hello Team, I'm about to upgrade my fuseboards to split load RCD jobs. My house is quite 'long' and has a fuseboard at the front door supplying the front house sockets/lights and a fuseboard at the back of the house in the kitchen which supplies the rear ringmain and lights. An electrical...

Cheers lads, thanks for the advice. Will definitely be fitting some kind of hot water tank stat and pump or motorised valve with its own elec supply from its own timer. This way I can just have boiler concentrating on the heating only in the morning when its really needed and the hot water is...

Hello All, My new (old) house has a glowworm hideaway boiler. There are no separate controls for the hot tap water and the central heating, ie, switch the system on and the boiler heats the tap water and the radiator water. The thermostat just cuts the heating circulating pump in and out as...