Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Crumbs, as you should know, can build up, and the elements of a toaster are open, surrounded by earthed metal.

I joined the tariff soon after escaping an enforced session with BG, and moving to Octopus, and remained on it - apart from a month, when I missed the renewal. Yes, it can increase beyond the capped tariff sometimes, but you just have to ride the high costs, with lows. Over a reasonable period...

This is Octopus Tracker, for tomorrow, Sunday 5th April. It shot up to stupid cost, during the Iran war, tomorrow, it is cheaper per Kwh than I have ever seen it. What's going on?

I am just watching pigeons, appearing to be making a nest, in the gap between the solar panels, on a neighbours roof, and the panels. Is this a common problem with solar panels?

Which might be wired in phone wire.

Checking the voltage at both ends of the cable, with the release pressed, might give some better ideas.

I think he means the 12v batteries, are in series. My scoot has 5x 12v batteries, a nominal 60v, driving a 1Kw 3phase motor. The charger, is designed for 72v output. The most common intelligent chargers, which Eric keeps mentioning, are designed for the more usual 12v batteries. Using one on...

All it needs is a crumb of bread, carbonised, shorting the bar element to the metal case.

Today, I decided to test it out, see how well the automatic pressure setting worked, and check it's calibration was accurate, against my PCL digital meter. It over shot the settings by 0.5 psi, but agreed perfectly with my PCL gauge. It was as quick at putting the air in as my garage compressor...

For the first time in many months, today I managed to take a leisurely bath, without the sense of panic/anxiety creeping in, and me being in a desperate hurry to get back out, and always an unsteady struggle getting out. I cannot explain just how terrible I have felt, during the worsening...

I leave a bit of thin, stiff wire in the drain tube, so it's easy to clear it out regularly. The drain tube hole, is at the rear, usually at the base of a V shape which collects, and funnels the water down the drain.

It's to tie you in, thinking you have got a bargain, to shopping at Tesco. They've been advertising the 'half usual price' meat on TV, for Easter.

Because the flow from the combi, is limited by its ability to heat the water fast enough. My CWST, is mounted directly above the bath, floor mounted in the loft, fed with 22mm. I have an extremely good flow at the hot tap.

You cannot turn the room off, where the thermostat is located, but you can turn the TRV's down in the unused rooms. Alternatively, if it's a wireless stat, you could carry it to which ever room you are in, and set the TRV in that room to maximum. You should never turn TRV's completely off...

It certainly will. Don't turn the radiators down, turn the TRV down - that is its purpose. TRV's are designed to limit the temperature in a room/set the maximum temperature. The time controller sets when CH is available. The wall thermostat decides whether any heating is needed, so is...