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Thanks very much for your help. I had a feeling that would be the answer, but still thought it worth checking before I start changing all the pipework in the area. It's a bit misleading of the manufacturer to show one of these rads mounted "upright" with conventional bottom connections...

As part of a full bathroom refurbishment, I'm installing one of those tall, narrow designer radiators - a Hudson Reed Revive double-panel unit, model number HL368. This particular rad is 1500mm high and 354mm wide. Each panel consists of six vertical oval tubes that are interconnected at the...

That's exactly what I was thinking. It's probably just a hairdrier - I can't see the need to power anything else in the cloakroom. Mike

I do dislike pull switches, but not as much as I dislike the idea of electrocution. :) If I could find a really quiet pull-switch that didn't wake the whole household when anyone uses the bathroom in the middle of the night, I'd give it a go. Maybe I'll just move the light switch onto the...

So.... ( I hope I've got this right)... Placing a conventional light switch inside the door into the cloakroom part of the room would not be a problem? Placing a socket in the cloakroom area would not be permitted unless there is an inner door to completely separate the bathroom and...

Thank you for all the replies. I'll try to answer the questions in the order in which they were asked.... The bathroom will contain a shower cubicle - it isn't a wet room. The door (or gap in the partition) will be at least 800mm from the edge of the shower. With the exception of an...

Thanks for your response. I've looked at this explanation of bathroom zoning and quite a few similar ones. However, unless I'm missing something, none of them seem to address the specific point I raised in my post, i.e. how does splitting the room with stud walling affect the zoning and, in...

Hi I'm about to have a bathroom completely refurbished and would like to understand the finer points of bathroom electrical zoning before starting to design the new layout. I want to split the existing bathroom (which is about 2.5m x 2.75m) into a bathroom area and a cloakroom/storage...

Not at all! :wink: I was just looking for guidance as to what's the likely cause of the problem. If I call out BG I'll still have to pay them - it's not an 'everything covered' type of contract and, given the intermittent nature of the problem I'm assuming it may take more than one...

Absolutely right - it was BG. It was last 'serviced' three or four months ago. As far as I'm aware they never do anything resembling a service. They measure the combustion products and check the gas rate. Despite the fact that this is supposed to be a central heating system service, they...

I have a 9 year-old Baxi Barcelona which has developed an intermittent problem over the last few weeks. Despite the reputation that the Barcelona seems to attract, mine has been absolutely reliable. :shock: :shock: The only problem I've had was caused by a blocked condensate trap. Apart...

I'm about to replace part of a drain using the standard underground brown 110mm plastic pipes and fittings. The end of one of the fittings will protrude above ground where it connects to a downpipe. I could leave it as it is, but I'd prefer to paint it black to match the downpipe. Does anyone...

Yeah, I wondered if it might be a connection problem, but I checked them and they are all OK. If I'd had a variac to hand I would have checked the valve operation at a range of voltages within normal mains tolerance to see if a slightly lower voltage would be enough to make a difference...

Thanks for the responses. I've left it with the old powerhead for the moment. Funnily enough, it has now started returning to the HW-only position when the power is turned off (by that, I mean totally isolated from the mains - not just turned 'off' at the controller or stats). Maybe it had...

Apologies for the rather long post.... My Y-plan central heating/hot-water system uses a Honeywell V4073A mid- position diverter valve. I've previously had to replace this unit once or twice in the 35+ years that I've lived here and on previous occasions I've had no problems. I recently...