Recent content by Chapelgirl

I have contacted a friend of mine and sent him photos of the board. He suspects it's an electrolytic capacitor to the right of the chip, which is a non-isolated flyback power supply. He thinks it's a 100uF 16V one. It doesn't look bloated but he says they can start to fail without any visible...

Thanks, jj4091. It is not a temperature problem. I think it is probably a component on the circuit board which has failed - maybe a capacitor? But I'm not an electrical engineer so I was hoping to pin it down a bit closer. I unplugged it and let it settle, then plugged it in again later, and it...

I have an Ebac 2650e home dehumidifier which runs 24/7 in my cellar. I noticed yesterday that it was making an odd noise - similar to the noise a petrol mower engine makes when it is 'hunting', and the display on the front is flashing between the normal 'AUTO' display and all the lights...

I have just replaced the fill valve in my close-coupled WC and it is now clear I need to replace the flush valve as well. The cistern is just short of 30cm tall to the lip, but the main issue with it is that the hole in the top of the lid that takes the push-button is only 20mm across, and...

I am in France, so I realise that fittings etc. may well be different here. I have read that the supply pipe diameter for a washbasin should be 12mm and for a shower 16mm. The hot and cold feeds to my bathroom are 14mm copper pipe, and I don't want to have to redo the entire run. I'm intending...

I have a bathroom floor which is above the garage. It is a row of hard concrete formers with about a 5cm deep screed on top, then tiles on top of that. For reasons I won't go into, I decided to take up the floor tiles, and I then discovered that my hot and cold water pipes are running diagonally...

"Where's the existing vent?? In loft space going thru roof?? " Neither. The existing WC on the ground floor has a side coupling and has a swept T joint on it which terminates in a screw-cap rodding eye immediately beside the pan, so there is neither a stack nor an AAV in the existing setup...

I have a loft conversion where I want to install a new WC. The new WC will sit under the sloping ceiling, which is plasterboard on the roof joists, the space between insulated with rockwool. The roof is tile. The room in which the new WC will be is separated from the eaves-space by a...

We have a toilet with a push-button flush on the top of the cistern, with short and long flush options. Not every time, but sometimes when it is flushed the popup button sticks half way and the flush water continues to flow into the bowl. We're on metered water, so I'd rather like to stop...

We have just moved into an appartment where the street door is a frameless glass door with a chrome-plated lever handle and what looks like a standard brass lock cylinder. Unfortunately the lock was broken and although we can close it we cannot deadlock it. The handle appears to be...

We have just rented a flat which has a bath with a shower hose but no shower screen or curtain. I bought a shower rail intending to fix it in a long L shape around the bath, as is customary. Unfortunately the owner has had the bathroom walls clad in plastic barge-board and when I put a...