Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Which translates to - you lack the mental capacity, to spend just a few minutes per year, to save yourself thousands of pounds in your bills. Does that attitude follow on into your work, and business ethic?

The 'test', these past couple of weeks, was a test of a range of essentially new hardware. The world, and hardware has moved on considerably since 1969, but even back then, they carried out numerous hardware tests, before progressing to an actual landing. Testing of new hardware, is absolutely...

Only a fool just pays what a service supplier requests, without checking. You show yourself to be the forum fool, repeatedly.

This morning, yet another appointment. I already had a phone call appointment, for 'pre-assessment', but now they also want to add a F2F pre-assessment, in hospital. I got the same appointment, 3x over, via the post, sms, and email all at the same time. Phone call Tuesday, F2F Wednesday.

The ceiling rose, lamp holder, and flex, will likely only be rated for 6amps, so I would suggest a 5amp fuse to protect those.

One last check you might be able to do.... Connect a flex, plus lamp holder, plus lamp, across the live and neutral connections at the pump. When there is demand for heat/the pump to run, the lamp should light up. You can borrow the 'test equipment', from a ceiling rose in most rooms.

No, swap the 13amp fuse for a 5amp. 13amp in the FCU, which feeds your socket+ light, then a 5amp in the FCU to protect the light part of your circuit.

My cheapest insurer, the one I accepted, was Aviva. A very reputable company. High cost, does not necessarily = good service.

Total nonsense, and ridiculously easy to check, without all that cutting seals and fitting second meters. All you needed to do, was apply a known fixed load, for a predetermined period, and get an average voltage reading for the period of the test. Amps x volts is the wattage being drawn.

Yes, but there is no need. Fit a 13amp fuse in the FCU switch, and you can use 1.5mm, but 3amp means you could use 1.0mm.

It is simple - shop around, for the very best deals which suit your use... For water/sewage, I have a water meter installed, and pay only for what I use, plus a sum for drainage. Nowt much I can do beyond that, there is no competition. Broadband, plus phone, I have YouFibre - £26.99 for both...

Is there an extraction fan in there? If not, it needs one to be fitted.

We do have lots of red kites, almost always one circling on the breeze above. The pigeons appear to be making their way, between roof and panels, which might be a tight space for the larger kite.

If it fails that test, then a replacement actuator head, is available here and several more places. Shop around... https://www.plumb4less.ie/products/sunvic-22mm-2-port-mvalve

Yes, if you are certain there is 240v at the input to the pump, but you will need to be able to either isolate the water circuit, above, and below the pump - or drain down to replace the pump head.