Recent content by jw52

Our cellar looks exactly like yours, we are being recommended Sika 1 render. My big concern is the brick is deteriorating fast and I want to halt that. What did you do in the end?

Thanks but I'd rather not mess with the coolant system because of possible airlocks and leaks etc. If it's possible to just disconnect from the electrics Surely thats simpler?

I just want no heat! I had the usual problem (cold only} then fitted a new heater unit, now have hot air only. I have exported the car to France where I only use it in summer, and its only worth a few hundred quid. All I want is to stop the sauna effect.

Is it possible to deactivate the heater altogether simply by unplugging the electrical plug connection? I have tried taking out the fuse but that governs the indicators!!

Can anybody give an opinion on the cost saving in energy of four LED spots built in compared to a bar with four LED GU bulbs? Obviously the former runs on a transformer and the latter on mains. How much real difference would there be in energy terms? :?:

I am planning to fix 4mm secondary glass to a fixed 1900s bay window, to reduce heat transmission. The biggest pane is quite large, about 800 by 1100. There is an existing 45mm deep inner wood frame in good condition, and the external window and putty is sound, so I intend to fix a new 10x15...

Great advice, many thanks - there is no connector block, and no need to use one as I understand it, this is a junctionbox type rose and so I'll earth the lantern as described above using the CPC and wire all the earths to the earth terminal in the existing ceiling rose. Grand job. :D

I have bought a metal indoor lantern pendant light, with three core flex, supplied with an extra piece of earth flex with a ring connector. The pendant light I am replacing is plastic. No problem connecting the live and neutral wires to the ceiling rose (they go where the old ones were). But I...