Recent content by Terence Eden

Well, the spur wasn't from the double socket to the left, or to the right. But from the one in the room upstairs... All sorted now. Many thanks for the taking the time to answer my questions. Beer o'clock

Right - I'll open up the nearby ones and see what's what! Cheers for the advice.

It's the 7th socket in the room (!) - I figured removing it would be quicker and easier than finding the fault. Assuming the earth cable is physically broken, I guess my only other option would be rewiring. Which, as I'm moving out soon, I can't really be bothered with.

It is metal - although I suppose I could easily replace it with a plastic one. I assume it needs earthing just in case the live wire comes into contact with it?

Bought a socket tester, all fine - apart from one! Single socket, earth wire is physically present. But socket tester says no earth. I've replaced the socket with a known good - still nothing. The double sockets either side are all good. There's only the three wires in there, so I assume it's...

Cheers both. Is that likely to be a user-replaceable bit - or is it time to get the professionals out?

Evening all. Think I might be going out of my mind! All my radiators are baking hot - except for one upstairs. It has a valve on it like this (as do all the rads): I've fully opened the tap and both input and output get hot. The radiator remains stubbornly cold. I opened the bleed at the...