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That looks like a brilliant idea. A whole new world of possibilities. Many thanks.

This is the coupling on my toilet. The toilet outlet is standard 100 mm but goes into a soil pipe with a 125 mm opening. There are two couplings one inside the other, but I cannot find a replacement for the 125 mm adapter. Does anybody know? Alternatively is there a single coupling for 100 to...

OK I have made no progress even after trying out three different doughnuts. I actually took the toilet outside so I could test it and not mind if it leaked. My neighbours were amused to see me installing it on an outside wall. My wife has pointed out that the top and bottom halves are a quite...

My toilet has leaked at the join between the cistern and the pan. The connecting bolts had rusted and I thought it looked an easy fix. It's the type with the bolts connecting straight through holes in the bottom of the cistern and the back of the pan. The doughnut seal seemed OK but I've got a...

Many thanks for taking the trouble to explain this. Regrettably I don't have a separate PL wire from the boiler only the SL wire. If this boiler is normally capable of getting the pump to run after the timer and/or thermostat have tripped out, then I think I have an internal fault or the spare...

https://flameport.com/electric/central_heating/heating_wiring_S_plan.cs4 I've referred to the S plan diagram above. It's pretty much the same as on mine except that the boiler has only 4 wires coming out. A black wire I've taken to be switched live connects to terminal 10. The regular live...

Sorry it's an R40 HE and the GC is 41 311 61. What I've since found is that if the switched live wire to the pump also connects to the boiler and turns the flame on and via some magic should also send a signal back from the boiler to the pump when the timer goes off. Hot water in the boiler...

My boiler works fine most of the time but I recently noticed that when the timer switches off, then so does both the boiler and the pump, and the internal temperature gets really hot, like 95 degrees. This is different to when only the room thermostat goes off. Then the pump continues to run to...

Thanks for the comments. Yes it does seem a coincidence. There’s another factor as well which adds to the coincidence. I’ve tried another shower head and that seems to work better. The original has an aerating eco function ie flow restrictor. What works even better is to have no shower head on...

My shower pump serves a shower two rooms away with an overhead run of about 8 metres. It has reed switches on hot and cold gravity supplies and starts up every time, but lately it wouldn't stop running when I turned off the shower. I descaled the shower head and this seems to have just about...

Thanks for responding. What there is is a terminal board with maybe a dozen terminals. The wires to the lights are all white so that's not much of a clue. I had 3 out of 4 wires correct and I managed to guess which one was wrong so it works now.

I just fixed the spark generator but whilst doing so also replaced the two signal lights on the front panel. One indicates the thermostat for the oven, and other indicates when the grill is on. The lights had been working but the casings had melted so it seemed sensible to replace them. Now I...

Many thanks - I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and replace the whole thing. Not cheap mind.

I have pumped shower system serving two rooms. It's been OK for at least 20 years, and the pressure is still good but it occasionally fails to pump when the mixer tap is turned on. After a delay it gets started but then sometlmes it's slow to turn off. The pump is an unknown brand - probably...

Do you know it is a septic tank? Regardless of the definition of Septic, a septic tank relies on bacteria to break down the sewage and the watery residue then usually discharges into a soakaway, or as a last resort after further treatment into a watercourse. The tank does need occasionally to...