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My friend has a leaky shower and needs a new cartridge - could any of you DIYnot'ers please help me ID this shower valve? Thanks in advance.

Thanks a lot for the input. The fused switch is located outside of the wetroom in the bedroom. The outlet is 110cm from the drain. I agree that this seems like bad planning/system design. You also raise another point that had been bothering me and that's the IP rating of the rail itself...

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Yes - there are LNE connections in the box from the cable coming out of the wall to the flex of the heater element. The connections are not waterproofed in any way - just a regular connection strip.

Hi All, I have a question that I'd like to pose to the sparks here. My parents recently had a wetroom installed as part of an extension - electrics done and certified by a NICEIC installer. I noticed that the electric towel rail has been joined to the switched fused spur from the wall by a...

ricycle - thanks alot for your help. You've described just what i'm after. I've searched around a bit and found a Hager 63A ES470 unit that is 4 pole 2NO - 2NC - this appears to be what you've described in a single unit. Lectrician - cheers for the clarification - i've inherited this system...

central heating during winter. The CH can't come on during the day at the moment.

thanks for the reply ricicle - can you suggest a way to have achieve an auto change over? The boiler/CU's are in a small room under the main house and getting to the controls would be a drag (necessitating going outside). I'm not lazy - but work away from home sometimes and my wife will tune me...

Hi All, I've got an older peak/off peak setup in my house - 2 meters and 2 consumer units. The off peak supply is switched on via a radio tele switch. Currently i have a 9Kw electric boiler running from the off peak supply. I want to have the supplies auto change over between the peak and off...