Recent content by Paul Bunce

Hi all, for future planning I just want to clear up this question; I have a consumer unit in my garage fed from a 40A MCB via 6mm SWA cable ( no more than 7m total length) from the house consumer unit. Can I have a charger installed (7kw) connected to my garage consumer unit rather than to the...

I have the Ring pro (powered by a doorbell transformer). My property came with a standard "ding dong" mains door bell so i upgraded to the Ring and although you get the little plug in repeater that makes the "dum dum dum" ring sound (which is quite responsive) my original loud "ding dong" box on...

Fit a Meros garage door opener £30 from Amazon, easy to fit and comes with a smart app. The unit comes with a door sensor and will show on the app if the door is open or closed. It will also notify you when the door is opened or closed (even if the app wasn't used to open or close it). Its also...

The drive was laid by the developer when the house was built (in June), its constructed of a very course sub-base (MOT type 1??) then sand then the blockwork. From what I have seen none of the gully's on the estate actually drain away (120+ houses) but most driveways are flat so I doubt its an...

So would I be within my right to expect it to be correctly connected to a surface water system, or can the developer just say no? I would like to ask them to connect it to the surface water drainage system but I'm unsure of their legal responsibilities.

Our house has aluminium tape over the plastic pipes, this can be detected with a stud/ metal detector.

I live in a new build (in England), the house has a block paved drive 10m x 10m that slopes away from the house down to the road. At the bottom edge of my drive I have plastic drainage gully. I noticed that when it rains the gully was filling with water and over spilling into the road. There was...

So just to close the thread, the diaphragm had failed in the expansion tank.

At no point have I said I've been doing anything with the system, I wouldn't anyway as its all under warranty, I just want to know know if there is likely to be a fault or not and if there is what the cause could be so I don't get fobbed of by the builders.

Ok here goes, I've recently (4 months ago) moved to a new build that has a pressurised hot water tank, this is new to me as all of the other houses I've owned have had combi-boilers. My issue is as follows; My hot water is programmed to come on twice a day which it does no problem, but I find...

So just to clarify, I already have a transformer in my consumer unit on the rail with all the other house mcb’s. I’m confident in changing it (I’m an electrical engineer in the aviation industry). I just want to make sure I can legally change it as it’s a like for like swap, the only difference...

I have just moved into a new build that has a mains powered door bell. There is a transformer on the buss bar in the consumer unit outputting 12v @ 15VA. Now I would like to have a Ring doorbell Pro which requires 24v @ 30VA. Handily enough the doorbell comes with new transformer in the box...

I’m in Lincolnshire

Wow £1000 for 7 sockets and 4 lights. That seems a lot.

I know it’s fairly vague but what sort of price am I looking at? Garage would be more or less empty.