Recent content by Aristotle's Lantern

Thanks for the responses, the wet-vac is a great idea, I'll give that a shot, hoovering the inspection plate on the pavement will give the neighbors another thing to curtain twitch over! I'll keep an eye on it once it's dry, see how long it takes to fill up again, but glad it's nothing serious.

We've a tiny leak on our internal stop tap on the supply side after bumping it while doing renovations, i was going to change the compression olive by turning off the supply in the street to work on it but it seems the outside tap is underwater (attached picture). I believe this supplies three...

fantastic. thanks again

Great! thanks We considered that but thought it would be nice to be able to just have the wall light on for indirect light during bath time or getting a drink of water at night, there's no reason other than preference to have it connected to the switched live I assume?

Hi all, happy new year. Just hoping someone would be able to check my intention for the bathroom before I go ahead? Currently all the wires feed through into the old smashed up pendant and it's a mess, we're changing the pendant to an IP44 and adding a wall light above the mirror. there's not...

Update, for anyone interested or who might have a similar problem. It *touches wood* seems to be fixed now - There's a filter on the hydroblock that engineer didn't know about, he's cleaned it and reassembled everything and the kettling has stopped. It's annoying that we've had to pay so much...

Thanks for your reply. Sorry. Yes, we get hot water - sometimes it'll run for 30 seconds before the problems start and sometimes it can be a few minutes. And like i say - central heating is working fine. The issues didn't start as soon as the bathroom plumbing was done, maybe two weeks...

Hi all. Boiler's 10 years old - it's in fairly good condition but I don't think it's been serviced much (we bought the house 3 years ago) Originally threw up an E-7 error code when running a bath. Central heating works without a hitch. It's only when we run a hot water taps - both the up or...