Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Do you have a manhole nearby? Check, when the toilet is flushed, that the flush is seen to pass quickly, and freely, through the manhole. Suspect a potential blockage, or obstruction somewhere.

Worse still, the BBC published it.

No, they all got locked up!

No, not hot enough.

Last night, we watched 'Jules', occasionally funny. I was halfway through watching it, recognising the old guy, but couldn't decide who it was - it was 'Ghandi'.

It's a saddle shaped tank, so it needs to measure the level in both sides, when it drops below the hump. It uses a fancy venturi system, to transfer from one side, to the in tank pump side. I never usually run it that low that the light comes on, but... If the level is low-ish, when I park up...

Juggling hospital appointments. This coming week, I had a regular monthly kidney appointment on Friday, that needed the results of my blood, for which I had an appointment to have done yesterday at my GP's. The GP cancelled it, so now I will have to have it done tomorrow and await the results...

The 240v, goes via the following sequence. Timer > stat > pump and boiler. If you are seeing 240v out of the stat, that means timer and stat, are calling for heat, therefore your next check needs to be at the pump. Another possibility, might be, that you have lost the neutral. Checking with...

I fitted an isolator, at the same time as I had the Smart Meters put in. I fixed the isolator in place, prior to the installer's arrival, then just a matter of diverting the tails, through the isolator. In came in latter, when I swapped out the consumer unit, for a new, much larger one, with new...

Mine does exactly that. The fuel gauge is likewise an interpreted value, based on two level sensors, and present mpg. Park the car, and it will show one level, then restart the car later, it will show a lower level whilst running cold, then as the engine warms, and mpg improves, it will rise.

I think what seems to be happening (as someone else suggested earlier), that the PB isn't sat tight with the timbers, but it is sat on some insulation, allowing it to flex when pressed. Someone then leans on the panel, then the PB moves back, popping the plaster out from the screw heads. OP -...

The tug on the wires, after terminating, to make certain - is normally the final check that any competent installer should make.

No, not at all - no valid reason.

Bought a small, cheap air frier a few years ago, as a trial. I found it too small, and the containers/pans, impossible to get clean after use, so it never got used much. Last year decided a replacement combi-microwave might be worthwhile, and ended up buying a Lidl one, which claimed to be a...

The only reliable way to measure a voltage, is against a known reference. That known reference will likely be a definite earth point. Your central heating pipe work ought to provide a good earth, as should an earth pin on any 13 amp socket. The earth wire should never be used as a live...