Recent content by scooby1

I won't touch the boiler but can manage tap washer repairs. Even a bit of plumbing if it's MDPE ;)

Yes, actually it was Saturday and I hadn't taken that into consideration.

I did a bit of research. I found the name of the company and looked at the commpany's financial details. They are very comprehensive which is unusual and there is only one Director and he is making a shed load of money !

I think you would call the outfit independent. I Googled "Sky engineer" and found someone alledgedly near to me. But when he had done the work he phoned someone who I assume was a superior of some kind and that person obviously dictated what the price was going to be. In truth I think it is a...

Thank you very much for your help. You clearly know what you are talking about. I had "a man" in today and as you say, it was a faulty LNB that was the issue. As can be seen the cover had deteriorated and allowed the heavy rain to get inside. In fact, after he had removed it I turned it upside...

Just taken this. I am confused about the bar system.

Yes, I found that earlier today. I can take a photo. & post it if you like. Thanks for your help.

Thank you for your help. I have just booked a SKY engineer to come and look at it today.

Suddenly discovered today that our SKY system has a fault which we have never encountered before. We cannot get BBC1 to work, we are told there is no signal. But BBC2 works but only after we get a message telling us to re-start the SKY box. And we can't get any SKY channels to work either. We...

Crikey, does that mean that in a years time we won't be able to replace any dead Fluorescent tubes ? We have quite a few in the house and that is quite worrying.

Many thanks to all of you yet again. I have certainly learnt a lot in these last few hours. I stupidly thought that LED would be so much brighter than fluourescent and so my current intention is to return the LED batten and buy a longer fluourescent with a cable that emanates from the centre top...

Oh dear, it seems as though I have got completely the wrong idea about all this. I automatically assumed that more lumens = brighter light. It seems that I was wrong. So maybe I should start again but before that I would like to give my thanks for such quick responses to my initial question...

Thank you. Sorry for using the wrong terminology. I forgot to add in my question that the current unit does not have a starter. So just to be sure, are you saying that it is not possible for me just to buy a same length LED and fit it straight in the same as I do now with fluorescent tubes i.e...

I have searched this Forum for an answer but what I found was quite old and so I am going to ask my question if I may. I have what I think is a basic fluorescent light in a small room. It is 1200mm long Sylvania Cool White F36W/840 3350 Lumen bulb and the unit has the attached image of a ballast...

Thank you for that. I'll do some research.