Recent content by epatrickt

Think I might be stuffed! Thanks for the advice, have got the lever off now (obvious once you've told me!). One of the just crumbled so I need to replace them. They don't look like others I see in the not just taps sure or elsewhere.... Non standard?

Ah that's useful thanks. Getting the lever assembly of though might be where I get stuck! I don't see anything to undo. Would you expect the caps facing outwards on either lever to pop off (with a screwdriver)?

We bought a mixer tap a few years ago and the plastic on the handles has started to crack/fall away. I'm hoping to replace these but am not sure how to remove them. There is no square/hex shaped point to unscrew them so not sure how to set about it. Is it obvious? Hopefully they aren't too far...

Our house has a few roof sections and in their infinite wisdom, over the years, various builders have gone for slightly different sizes. Our lovely neighbours have used an air-rifle to shoot holes in some of them and so we need to get a small number to replace them. They're not standard sizes...

Thanks MM, that is helpful. Some something like the Drayton MiGenie Single would do it I think, from what you say? We'd still have the separate thermostat which I guess we'd have to put somewhere that will never get hotter than the maximum set-point that may be programmed on the control panel...

We've a range cooker controlled by a Honeywell 1-channel 7 day timer (the 1-channel version of ST9400C) and we'd like to add the ability to override the program remotely to turn it on early/late as it takes ages to heat up. I can see lots of questions/answers pointing to thermostatic controllers...

Well it has an energy loss of 16.58W/m. It is 2x32mm pipes in a 125mm casing. Hopefully I have figured out the forum album and you can see a photo of it here. [/img] I know that professionally installed biomass systems use this pipe but like you, I have doubts about the pay-back if the...

Think the alkathene is actually 28mm (the connecting copper is 35mm). The Armaflex is 25mm thick.

I've a wood-fired boiler in my garage and have the flow and return going underground (about 10m + 2m in vertical) to the house. I put the pipe in on the cheap and used 32mm alkathene pipe lagged with Armaflex and surrounded in sand about a foot down. I'm guessing that this is losing a lot of...

...have found the answer. Honeywell tech support said that it is likely that it had lost its binding following being powered down for several months (he couldn't explain how this work when it contains EEROM though). I rebound them but found the same thing happened - so suspect that this is what...

We've a multi-zone heating system based on the Honeywell CM67z controllers bound to the HC60NG. Just turned it on for the first time this heating season. After about 1 minute, the HC60NG green led comes on and stays on (24 hours so far). The 2-port valve open, pump comes on etc. All 4 of the...

I've got a roll of insulation knocking around somewhere so will give that a go, thanks!

We've got a Screwfix cheap and cheerful extractor with timer mounted in the ceiling next to our shower. It has an added simple non-return flap inline to reduce the back-draft and then a flex-pipe to an opening in the roof. When it is very cold outside (like now, at -6DegC), water drips from...