Recent content by akist

I have two external doors, both PvC, with large glass panes, with semi obscured glass, very smooth on one side and a very fine texture on the other side (Stippolyte). The doors were installed in the past few years. Unlike other doors and windows, where the glass panes were clear and smooth on...

Terrible! there should be a WARNING on the box then. It's hardly been 12 months! Next repaint will be with water based paint then? Not sure how it will take on the existing eggshell paint. Or maybe some specialised paint/chemical for this purpose?

This manufacturer ( cannot recall name ), and another ( MIRA ), both DEMAND a bed of sand and cement, and go to great lengths to emphasize that and absolutely no foam or silicones. Stone resin, flat bottomed, 25mm overall, thinning to about 10mm as you get into the centre where the water...

Yes but a repair might prevent the crack extending further, especially since we do not step on the centre. But at £500 it seems crazy money. Yes, he says he uses foam everywhere and is adamant that the tray was defective ... The manufacturer explicitly specifies a bed of sand and cement with...

We painted the new house 14 months ago. For the walls and ceilings we used Johnstone's brilliant white matt emulsion (which I supplied from Brewers) and for the wood work, doors, architraves and skirtings, we used Johnstone's Brilliant White Eggshell oil based (which the decorator supplied)...

Would anyone be able to recommend a shower tray repairer who does not charge an arm and a leg? The shower tray, since fitted a year ago, has developed two hairline cracks around the waste, which is in the middle. The tray sits on plywood, but is not well supported (fitter used foam), and in...

In the UK, incoming water and gas have been plastic for decades, since at least the 80s. Then it was black and yellow, now it is blue and yellow, but plastic all the same. In the TN-C-S supply, which I assume is what I have in the UK, the E only exists as long as the supply's N is intact. If...

Yes exactly. The supplier's N gets disconnected away from the house. The house's N and E are intact and shorted together inside the meter's housing. The house's own E, in my case a rod in the ground, obviously has some resistance, which has not been noticed, not until the supply's N got...

It was my bad description. I was trying to describe that the supplier's N got disconnected away from the house (overhead cables). I was also trying to describe that the supplier's N joins the house's N and the house's E "at the meter" (3-way connector inside the enclosure which houses the...

It happened to us! I did not know this could ever happen. Supplier's neutral snapped off away from the house. We did not realise. For many days some people were getting mild shocks in the shower when touching the shower tap, but nowhere else. Finally, one day, we got a *much* larger shock in...

Pumping from storage tank into house. The pressure switches are mechanical and adjustable, from what I understand.

I have a 50L expansion tank, and have bought 2 pressure switches (in the post). I have a non-return valve at the pump input, and a 6 bar pressure valve at the pump output.

I want to detect "no water reaching the pump" in general, so as not to run it dry and burn it. It could be an empty storage tank, but it could also be a closed valve or a blocked filter etc. For that I *think* I need another pressure switch to break contact at low pressure, rather than make...

It is a normal water pump, 1100W, intended to take water from a tank (about 900 litres) and feed it to the house. The tank is about 1.5 floor levels high and there is enough gravity pressure to run the ground floor taps, but not upstairs. The tank is needed to alleviate water shortage related...

What happens then? Edited title to clarify it is the electricity company's neutral at/near the meter, or somewhere away from the house