Recent content by Tony59

Thanks for the clear answer. If the pipe to the outdoor tap was to go into the ground, would bonding be required then? I am just trying to understand the rules.

I have an outdoor garden tap supplied from my kitchen mains supply. It has a gate valve as an isolator which does not work well. I wish to replace it with a plastic isolation valve (see photo). The piping from the isolation valve to the outdoor tap will be going vertically through the back wall...

Thanks for the replies. The installers have agreed to grind the back of the tiles. They said that it is not necessary, but they will do it to keep me happy.

The installers have advised that a maximum of a 5 mm gap is permitted according to MCS guidelines. It's a bit difficult to check the gaps. Also removing, grinding and replacing the tiles might weaken them.

I am having solar panels installed and noticed that the installer did not use an angle grinder to adjust the tiles and enable them to lie flat after installing brackets. He seemed to install the brackets very quickly. But they have not yet installed the cables for the panels, so perhaps I should...

In the end, we replaced the shower with another Triton Enrich, without fixing any switches or anything else. The new one works fine. So perhaps the solenoid had failed on the previous one.

Just for the record, I did 2 things to try to solve this: 1) I bought some foam filters intended for air vents to insert inside. These are intended to allow air flow through, but stop indirect rain etc. I think that it continued to leak after that, but I am not sure. 2) I attached a flexible...

One of my neighbours did that and Aico recommended that we remove the radio devices from each house, then install them again, house by house, giving each house its own house code. So maybe that's what we will do. However I feel that we already installed them according to the instructions and...

I have upgrade some smoke alarms in a house which now has 3 hardwired alarms and one wireless heat detector. All alarms are from the Aico range (Ei3016, Ei603RF). I have installed one radiolink module (Ei3000MRF) into one of the hardwired alarms. This allows the hardwired alarms to communicate...

I seem to have exactly the same problem with a Triton Enrich. LED light goes on. The water supply is OK. But the shower won't operate. Did you ever find out what was wrong?

I should have probably described the 1st option as 'radial'. In effect both options are types of 'Parallel' going by what is taught at school, since live and neutral are connected to each device. I doubt that text book 'Series' is ever used in real life. Anyway, what I want to know is should the...

From the ceiling rose, the cable will be 2 core + earth. Series option: Between each alarm will be 3 core + earth. Junction box option: Between common junction box and alarms will be 3 core + earth. The 3rd core will be for hard wiring the signal. I have seen the series way being used before...

Hello. I am upgrading some AICO smoke alarms in a HMO where the existing alarms will expire soon. They are each wired from individual ceiling lights. On the top floor there are 4 alarms. I plan to go into the loft and from above, power the 4 top floor alarms from a single ceiling rose, instead...

Thanks for the replies. Since it is well ventilated and there is no water source in the loft (no tank or humidity source that I know of) I didn't think that it could be caused by condensation on the vent. I am planning to block it with a thick plastic bag stuffed with a rag. I think that...

I have 2 plastic vent tiles on my roof. From within the loft, I see that their underneath interface is a 75 mm diameter pipe, presumably to allow connectors, or just to allow ventilation. One of them is directly above the loft hatch which is lined with polystyrene on top. The other one is above...