Recent content by Steth

It's a Wylex. We've had no paperwork yet (I assume an EIC is paperwork?) As for the supply, it comes in down a wire from a pole - sorry if you needed something more technical than that :)

He did this, and I believe found that the spur to the garage was about 6 megohms I think. Does that sound the right sort of figure? - he said it was still 'legal' I wouldn't have thought that resistance would allow enough milliamps to pass would it? I put the garage back on today as I needed to...

Softus - many thanks for your ideas to date. The problem continues with random tripping. The only consistent cause of tripping seemed to be turning a particular (fluorescent) light off. I've replaced both the switch and the whole fluorescent light fitting. Still it triggers a trip, though...

Good morning A quiet night with just upstairs and downstairs power on and no events. Just turned the kitchen back on to re-cool the fridge again and all well so far. He tested the original RCD and found it to be faulty, triggering at minimal mA at 0 volts and on the up half of the cycle...

It's just tripped again and yet again kitchen power MCB can't be reset without tripping the RCD. Nothing on bar 1 computer and the TV, nothing in the kitchen plugged in bar the fridge (which of course wasn't when it last tripped earlier - at least it was plugged in then but the kitchen RCD was...

Curiouser and curiouser We had a fairly uneventful day with only downstairs and upstairs power MCBs on. No problem until I turned off a downstairs fluorescent light (on the lighting circuit, not controlled by the 30mA RCD, but covered by the main (far right) whole house 100mA RCD. This...

The original box was an old conventional fuse box which had various extensions added over the years so needed to be replaced. Each 'addition' now has its own MCB, which seems sensible. To the far right of the board is a 100A 100ma Wylex RCD WEMT 100/2. To the left of that are 4 MCBs for the...

We've just had a new CU fitted and the electrician who fitted it is stumped. It's a 15 way box with 4 lighting circuits and freezer running from the main 100mA RCD and the rest running from a 30mA RDC. It's been in a month and initially tripped several times a day or night with no pattern to...

Isolated the rads, pressure still lost, so definitely no need to lift the floor, thank goodness. (And yes, as predicted, one of the valve is now weeping. Didn't think to check if the loss occurred when somebody opened a tap. Will try that next... Thanks for the advice so far.

This morning, the thing loses pressure within an hour!! Still no sign of a leak anywhere. Is there really no possibilty that something inside the boiler could be leaking invisibly between different parts of the system? Could I pergaps isolate the rads from the boiler and then see if it...

There are 8 rooms, none any more humid than the rest :-( Is there anyway of perhaps disconnecting individaul rads and doing some sort of pressure testing on individual runs?. I suppose I'd need to know the layout of the pipes to be able to make sense of it though :-( Steth

Hi All We have a Glow Worm Swiftflow which has always slowly lost pressure and I assumed this was normal. Over the last few months it's come down to every few days and now loses pressure within hours. It is regularly serviced and the chap who came out last week fitted a new ? air vent...

Hi All I need to provide background heat to an endless pool (6 x 3m) in a 10 x 4m wooden, very well insulated pool house. What I think I want is to be able to rapidly heat it (the space, not the pool) when it's going to be used rather than keep it continuously up to temperature, unless...

We are in the planning stages of building a small wooden building to enclose an endless pool (where you swim against a current). Whilst the electrics will doubtless need to be installed by a pro, does anybody have any internet links to sites that might assist me in at least planning the...

Our asbestos Nissen hut is permanaently damp. I'm going to address the rising damp problem by laying a DPM and a couple of inches of screed to at least dry, level and flatten the floor. There are some obvious holes and gaps between panels, which I will be fixing, but is there any way to...