Recent content by sarebearmeeks

Hi all I'm fully prepared for y'all to have a go at me..but... the bathroom radiator in our small ground floor flat was removed without turning off the boiler or bleeding the system. It was in anticipation of fitting a new modern radiator of the same size. The person removed the old radiator by...

since installing a shower pump the toilet will not flush. The water is coming through fine powered by the pump but I can't get any suction. I don't know if there is supposed to be any suction coming from the piston or syphon box thing. I have taken the handle off and if I tug on the piston...

I have installed a techflow 1.3 bar pump and it is happily feeding the shower and bath taps. When it comes to the toilet and basin however I have a problem. The hot water side triggers the pump but the cold water is trickling out. Addedd to this the toilet is not flushing and is also trickling...

Hi there it's a fuelsaver 30BR MK II gloworm boiler I can't get the pilot light on but all other gas working fine? Tried quite a few times as already suggested but nothing?!

sorry my mistake its a benchmark gloworm boiler!

Hi there I turned the gas off at the mains to move my cooker and upon turning it back on I had to relight the corgi gas boiler. However the pilot light will not come on and now I have no hot water or heating. I followed the instructions but to no avail. It is a relatively new boiler, can anyone...

just to say a BIG thankyou to all of you that helped with yr suggestions, despite yr reservations (understandably) The light is working perfectly, as is my confidence, keep up the good work and thanks again x

page 2/3 where?!

Hi there thanks for all yr help, sorry to go on i just want to double check everything i do before I do it! What is chock block? Is it what was originally holding the wires in the ceiling rose? I take it i cannot just strip and twist the wires together? Also can you please confirm that i have...

Ok I have isolated what is what, the cable from the previous light, the next light and to the wall switch. There are three wires in each cable, one black, one yellow and green and one black. One of the black wires is the 'live' one but is not tagged but was fed into the switch terminal on the...

Great thanks, I haven't dismantled the wires yet wanted to check first so I will go home and check the wires and get back to you.(no access to internet at home I'm in a cafe!) Don't worry I won't do anything until I'm absolutely sure I don't want to die!

I have a new spotlight bar that has earth, live and neutral connections but my ceiling wires have 3x red, 3x black and 2xgreen/yellow cables coming from it, which one do I put in the new light and what do i do with the others? :( thanks