Recent content by mikeh2000

I'll need three of them!

s*d it,more work for me then?! :(

Hi Guys(and Gals!) I've finally re-wired the house totally,moved and replaced the consumer unit and everything is tickety-boo and all tested and ok. The problem is now I've finished and put all the floorboards back down etc etc she's decided she wants some of those ceiling/light fan thingys...

Hi Meeshy,should be quite easy if your putting it near the sink and you have a washing machine plumbed in already! Probably the easiest way to get a water supply is by either using a 'Y' piece which screws onto your existing supply to give you 2 outlets,or a self-cutting valve thingy that you...

the bell wire you're on about still needs to be connected to make most modern phones work as well.I'm an ex BT engineer and got caught out by this when I recently moved house.The previous owner hadn't connected the bell wire(or the earths in some of the mains sokets but that's another sotry!)...

it could be a earth somewhere as that would cause the current to find the easiest way 'home' and might give funny symptoms

yes,you could fit a master socket if the cable was going down and you only had two wires functioning.In fact,sometimes I used to do this if the fault was in the customers wiring and they didn't want to pay to have it re-wired,at a cost of £60 for the first quarter of an hour and then £1 a...

I used to be a bt faults engineer and it shouldn't cause a problem as I never came across a fault caused by this.

I only wanted to know where to put my ring main! :o Seriously though I'm a maintenance engineer in a food factory and deal with 415 volts regularly,and we have a couple of machines that pull 400 A when started up so I'm all for safety! Luckily as it's a factory nothing is buried in walls...

oops,didn't notice that little stars and stripes. :oops: Should have really as my wife comes from Phoenix Arizona!

No need.corgiman's almost certainly right in his diagnoses methinks.It could also be a bit of grit or somesuch in the valve not allowing it to close properly.You probably still have to replace the valve though and it's well within range of the average DIYer. The valve is usually visible if...

my house was built in the late 60's I think,back when a packet of smiths crisps cost 5d according to an empty packet I found buried in a partition wall! I wasn't going to use conduit for the whole ring but just as a bit of protection on the drops as my wife likes to hang a lot of pictures and...

probably worth trying a different detergent as porker says.I was a miele service agent not long ago and they stated in writing with every new machine that on no accout should you use those three-in-one type rinse aids/detegent/pre-wash tablet things.They were proved by miele to not do the...

not worried about the money side paul,I'm a maintenance engineer in a large factory and can get my hands on just about anything I need! :D I'm going to be fitting a new bathroom suite(and floor now I've took the laminate off and noticed the rotten floor underneath!) so hopefully I shouldn't...

Not quite in a flood area as I live in the highest town in dorset,famous for that hill in the hovis ad. I had a think after I logged off and will probably go the way of steel conduit as I can get hold of all the parts,benders,dies etc etc. As an addition is there any problem with the consumer...