Recent content by dkhawkey

Hi, I have just turned on our central heating, and the Glow Worm Betacom 24 combi boiler seems to be making a lot more noise than it needs to. It has always been fine with the hot water, it is only now with the heating that it is loud. There is nothing strange about the noise, just kind of...

i pulled off my entry phone to repaint the wall, and lost my diagram i had made. I have managed to find for example that the common goes to 6, ringer to C7 etc, but I don't know which colour is which! are the colours std across all models of these phones what colour are each of the following...

Hi, I have recently stripped my walls of old ugly wallpaper. for the most part the drywall underneath is reasonably smooth and with a bit of sanding will be ready to paint. there are one or two patches however where i've removed a couple layers more than i should have. i've read some...

Hi, I have recently stripped my walls of old ugly wallpaper. for the most part the drywall underneath is reasonably smooth and with a bit of sanding will be ready to paint. there are one or two patches however where i've removed a couple layers more than i should have. i've read some...

Heres the picture. Sorry it's huge. I think I understand what's going on in it although there's no earth going into the copper block at the top of the img. The new light is metal so it needs to be earthed. http://www.ipanema.co.za/CIMG4281.JPG

thanks for the quick reply. i'll get a picture tongiht and post it. i found this on another post which sounds exactly like my set up and also doesn't sound like an earth is present: "ahh loop in lighting wiring probablly the biggest source of confustion and blown fuses/tripped breakers in...

I bought 2 new metal spotlight type lights for my house to replace the existing plastic ones. The first plastic one i removed had 3 wires, live neutral and earth which were pretty simple to connect the new fitting to. The second one has live, neutral, and three other red wires that are...