Recent content by Grangey

Got another inspection, normal cavity wall (currently uninsulated). So think it comes down to >back to brick, achieve efficiencies for some of the first fix works, reboard (dot and dab), and skim. > strip wall paper and hope the plaster is otherwise sound, have major works done through...

Not sure, is 1930ish recent enough not to have lime plaster? Place needs a full re wire so will need at minimum skimming throughout to make good all the chasing, which in itself if I got it back to brick would change the re wire to be nearer to first fix and quicker, not to mention ceilings...

Silly question but wanted to check. Currently have a single garage (single brick) separated from the house by a circa 1m wide walkway. If I wanted to block either side of the walkway up, and extend the garage roof over to join to the house… would this need planning? Thanks!

Hi all, Just bought an old house that needs renovation, as always though going it on a budget leads so questions like this. The entire house is covered in wall paper that looks far from new. I’m on a timescale with this so would like your help in weighing up whether I: a) pay someone to...

Well what helps is the pump is in new colours, which along with the valve wire colours which are original, helps very easily highlight the lives and neutrals in the system. Ive ordered a new wiring centre just to make the entire setup tidy and sleeve the earths, im just missing the link of why...

I’m not no, I’m hoping the routing per the pic makes more sense of that. In short - the existing room thermostats have a red and black cable, the black to go to the zone valves, the red seem to go up to the programmer - but changing colour to black as they do. The other red cables that go...

Ok I’ve traced it visually and am left with the following: Blacks to the programmer are all Neutrals. The 3 reds that go to the programmer, are the 3 valve “live on boiler and/or pump” but the wiring here confuses me: There are 4 terminals all bridged/ linked. 1: has just the “live termial...

Ok after a lot of reading I’m certainly considering redoing the entire wiring centre to make sense of what’s what and harmonise the colours. Can someone confirm if this looks correct bar the missing link from the pump to the boiler? The only part I’m stuck on is how the CH valve says it...

If I understand you correctly, are you saying that if this was a freshly installed system, the only terminals populated in the 3rd gen heatlink (excl L and N), are ports 3 and 6?

Understood but based on the above tracing does that not help determine what the cables in the “off” position are for?

Ok wiring centre is spaghetti junction with some connections hard to see, so I’ve traced one valve visually as best I can (the closest lower value seen in the picture) which is the downstairs zone. Valve has 4 wires Blue, brown, orange, orange grey. These feed to a connection block that maps...

So should I trace where the wires are going to? Gotta be doing something to bother wiring surely… Current programmer works fine so somethings strange for sure

No problem, picture uploaded to original post thanks :) All connectors are used on the original programmer

Hi all, Looking to replace a 2x zone CH programmer and HW controller with 2x nest. Nest 1- (3rd gen) will control downstairs heating and HW Nest 2 - (nest “e” thermostat) will control upstairs heating. Current programmer has seemingly simple wire structure, a series of neutral and live each...

why waste my own money getting a quote to fix something the home owners should, only to find out they’re not willing to take the discount off the price for the repairs.. I just want to get some rough ball parks so I can open the conversation with some level of accuracy. No idea if this could be...