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Hi All: We've just replaced our old CU with a new one with RCD protection. The electrician said that now all the supplimentary bonding in the bathroom was not required. My question is: Should we just leave it alone or hire our electrician to remove it all? Cheers!

Hi Everyone: I did a quick search of this site and have discovered several posts reporting trouble with Megaman Dimmerable CFL GU10 lights. We have installed 14 of the warm 11W GU10s here in ceiling downlights. The bulbs came with the light fittings (Flameguard CF409s). There are three...

Hi everyone. We have completely refurbished our CH system. There is a new condensing system boiler, all new pipework, new rads and TRVs. We haven't installed a programmable thermostat yet, but that will happen in due course. I have noticed that sometimes, after the CH system has been on...

I'm installing a dual fuel heated towel rail. It will have an electric element in it to be used in the summer when the central heating is off. In the room adjacent the bathroom there is a suitable socket I can spur off to run a cable to the site (outside the bathroom) where I plan to install...

Hi Everyone: We have two bathrooms in this house, each with an extractor fan. I've been working on one of the bathrooms and had to disconnect all the electrics to the room, including the extractor fan isolation switch. I noted down where all the wires were originally attached, but some...

Hi everyone! I think this is a fairly simple question, but so far I have never seen it explained. In a standard 2 core and earth cable, the normal convention is: Brown = Live and Blue = Neutral. Is there a standard convention for 3 core and earth (e.g. Brown, Black and Grey)? Cheers!

I'm hoping someone has some ideas about what is going on with my central heating system. Here is the basic setup: Boiler = Worcester Greenstar 24i System. It's been installed and working for about 1 year. There is no by pass on it. Instead there is one fitted into the pipe work at the HW...

Hi Everyone! I've been upgrading the CH system in our house. We have a new system boiler now (Worcester Bosch) and a new DHW tank. I was going to control the tank with a Danfoss TS715, which is already attached to the tank. For CH I wanted a mains powered programmable thermostat. Not...

Hi Everyone: Don't know if anyone can help, but I'm struggling with how to plasterboard around a Velux window. The ceiling that the windows are in is going to be plasterboarded. I'm fixing the boards to battens using plasterboard screws. My plan is to plasterboard the reveals using the...

Hi Everyone: I've been modernising our CH system whilst renovating our house. Most (possibly all) of the CH pipework has been replaced. Also new rads everywhere. That was the easy bit. The boiler has been replaced with a new condensing unit. I'm also looking at a programmable...