Recent content by Alan16

That's a good point about putting the siren near an upstairs window. When I put an additional siren at the back of the house I screwed it onto a rectangular piece of wood. I then screwed the piece of wood it was mounted on to the wall from inside the house - from an upstairs window, so that when...

No-one has replied so as I've replaced the batteries, I'll explain here how I did it. You can look at this diagram http://www.xcelplus.co.uk/ebay/Instructions/Installation%20instructions_HSA6000.pdf for guidance. However, I found that when I opened the back of my 6400 control panel by...

The batteries in the control panel need to be replaced. How is this done? There are four screws on the back of the panel-so do I undo these and is the battery easily accessible with the back plate off? I can't find any instructions on how to do this. I have ordered the batteries. Thanks

It's totally finished. A piece of trim was covering the gap.

Double glazing fitted but I've found a gap of about one inch at the top of the window filled in with foam.

Yes, a plumber dismantled it and checked it . I didn't think about the idea of changing the piping at the time.

The flow to the cistern is slow but the flow to the nearby cold tap is good. I have been advised that the slow flow to the cistern could be due to a number of reasons, including a partly blocked pipe, which is located behind the wall. Checking this would involve breaking tiles and retiling so...

toilet pipes

Is it safe for a non-electrician to replace a defective videx 524 entry phone with a videx 3102? Are any live electrical wires involved? Thanks Alan

I'm thinking about what to do about the rendering, now I'm going to have the house redecorated. The rendering,/pebbledashing which covers most of the flank wall and the top half of the front and part of the back, has a lot of stones missing but most of it is hard and not flaking, except for...

I can't see where the water can be getting in from the outside now the drain is repaired, so I have tried, possibly in an amateurish way, removing a section of the wet plaster at the bottom of the wall and replastering it. The replastered bit is about five days old now and a damp meter reading...

About a year ago I noticed the hall wall was a bit damp-flank wall with outside rainwater drain opposite damp. I took up a floorboard and found it was wet on the ground near the wall and eventually found that the cement surround of the drain was cracked and leaking water downwards. I fixed that...