Recent content by daviegarden

OK, Tony thanks, I'll have a go at cleaning the Venturi tubes and if that fails I'll get him to log on with his gas qualification details, Thanks again.

Thanks for your quick reply, I have done most of the electrical checks on the boiler and according to the flow chart/s it would seen the PCB needs to be replaced but my colleagues in the college say that the flow chart/s that come with the boiler documentation are not complete remedies, if that...

I've got a Freelander on a '53' plate and the SRS red light on the dash is on, any ideas?

What do yo mean you 'think' there's a disc in the CD changer? Either there's a disk in it or there's not. Open the cover, remove the carriage and put 6 disks (if it's a 6-disk changer) and put it back in and try again to get it to play a disk. If this doesn't work check that the plugs are in ok...

Yes the college does have a gas section and I have asked them and I am actively pursuing their suggestions, all I'm doing with this forum is enquiring if there are any 'common' faults that your 'hands-on' guys come up against on a regular or semi-regular basis. My colleagues have suggested I use...

Hi, I am a fully trained electrical technician and also have some central heating qualifications i.e. old gas ACOP elements but for the past 18 years I've been a senior lecturer in the electrical section in a further education college but my brother in law is gas safe registered. I posted the...

My Vokera 28 works ok when the heating is on but when I open a hot water tap it has started (not all the time) going to lockout, solid red light. It resets and works ok for anything between an hour and a couple of days and locks out again. I've replaced both NTC sensors, removed the small rubber...

As you are clearly not electrically minded and probably miss not having the shower, if it's 9.5Kw and you like to stay in it for a while. e.g. 20/30 minutes, you need a 10.0mm cable, a 45 amp double pole switch to control the shower and although RC protection is not required by the regs, you...

Graham, wire from your spare way with 2.5mm. Use a 20 amp RCBO in the consumer unit, that's all you have to do to comply with the regs. (apart from an earth continuity test, an insulation resistance test and a loop impedance test., if anyone is going to get particular about the added circuit)...

Disconnect the complete ring in question at the consumer unit, go round the house and make sure everything else still works, even the lights. Carry out a ring main continuity test on the ring, this will tell you if the ring IS a ring, the readings should all be below 1.0 ohm. remove each of the...

I just bought an electric tile cutter from Wickes. It's go a tray underneath that you fill with cold water to keep the cutting wheel cool. It cost me forty five quid and I'll tell you it's the best forty five quid I ever spend on D.I.Y. I was cutting a tile 450 mm square by 10 mm thick, it cut...

To comply with regulations the connector strip would have to be in a non-combustible box. Any joint must be enclosed. :idea:

First of all, it's obvious you know nothing about safe working. On no account should you be working with live circuits, one wrong move and you are dead. Do a drawing of what you've got at the switches and what you want to put in and send it into this site or take digital pictures of the stuff...