Recent content by Chapster

Notch7, sorry for not replying sooner. Thank you so much for your advice, it made fitting the liner so much easier. After using the method you described, it seemed so obvious, but it certainly wasn’t beforehand, and you’ve relieved much stress. Thanks again for taking the time to help. It...

Hi, I’m in desperate need of advice please. Firstly, I’m an electrician by trade who has done a degree of building work in the past and limited woodwork, mostly working in maintenance and domestic and commercial electrical. I’m trying to fit casings out of necessity, not pleasure. Background...

Hi, Thanks for the responses. Due to the state the so-called builders left the house in, and the need to make it more like a home fast (3 children there too), my partner has opted for new casings which I will then fit. Managed to find some rebated casings online after lots of searching, seems...

That pull cord switch won’t be the reason why the bedroom and landing lights aren’t working. Is there an RCD in your consumer unit which has tripped (switch is down)? The pull cord switch is either the last one on the lighting radial, or there is a junction box somewhere which might need...

hi everyone, My partner has just been done over by builders she got in to do big works in her house, and now she’s out of money and has a home with children that is virtually unliveable. I’m trying to help all I can to make it better for now, but I’m an electrician and need some advice please...

Thanks Terry, you were spot on with the above post. Workplace happy to leave it as is, so my job is done. Thanks again.

I was a bit of a muppet... it has four tappings. The middle two are actually a continuous pipe running behind the boiler, but as it's so close to a wall I couldn't tell at first. So in my drawing, the middle is a pipe running behind boiler, so three return pipes going to manifold. What's back...

hi everyone, At work the above boiler is fitted supplying office heating and an immersion. It's on a Honeywell controller and hasn't been connected properly because turning off the hot water on the controller disables heating to half the building too. I'm the electrician at my workplace and...

Thanks for the suggestions chaps. So no building regs or gas regs that say I shouldn't make it impossible to get to the pipe? I wondered as nearly all the pipe is accessible via the living room floorboards, hence my concern that it's supposed to be.

Hi, Just a quick question - ground floor of house all floorboards except kitchen which has a concrete floor. One little section of the kitchen which used to be a larder has floorboards though, and I need to concrete this section so I can tile the floor. But, running under the little...

Didn't think of Vaseline. So many uses... I have silicone grease but a check of the datasheet shows it's toxic. Plumba silicone grease and other potable water greases I finally managed to find claim to be of low toxicity with no effects from ingestion, etc.

Hi, wonder if any plumber here can tell me what is the usual grease used to lubricate tap valves? My kitchen mixer tap quarter-turn knobs are hard to turn, causing the whole tap to revolve. I want to remove the tap inserts, clean them and grease them up, but don't know what grease is safe to...

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Wouldn't expect 1MOhm to blow a fuse, but perhaps indicative of some carbon buildup where there's a short appearing. Had this annoying type of fault many times. Nearly every time it's down to a screw having nicked a cable, and sometimes it took months before a problem developed. Electric...