Recent content by ukbeachbum

For what it's worth, I disconnected the third 'ringing' wire from slot 3 in the new slave socket... ...the phone rings... I'll never doubt you again. :wink:

Didn't mean to sound so doubtful. Just a suprise. Yes, I'm on broadband... 2Mb. Have done speed tests and all seems fine. Would be curious to know what sorts of problems people have and what are the symptoms of an "unbalanced" broadband signal.

I have replaced 2nd bedroom socket with a slave socket, and sorry to cause confusion over wire colors, but I have only used the existing wire that was routed out a window and around 2 sides of the house. It connected the downstairs master to the upstairs (now dead) 2nd phone line. I'm just...

Well that couldn't have been easier. Many thanks. Plugged orange and white from upstairs line into 2 and 5 slots in front of downstairs master socket, then plugged black (of remaining black and green wires running in between upstairs and downstairs) into slot 3 of both boxes and presto...

Hello all, I will try and explain this a well as I can. I have just moved to a house that seems to have a dead second master socket in the 2nd bedroom that is wired around the outside of the house from the master socket in the lounge downstairs. I have carfully opened both boxes to look at...

For what it's worth to anyone else who reads this, thought I would share my final experience in the hopes that it might help someone. Even though I had only one response to my query, it was, luckily, spot on. It was the expansion tank. Completely out of air. What I did may have been the...

Had another look at manual and I should've checked that the expansion vessel is charged to 0.5 bar, not the system. Gotta go find a tyre pump and a gauge now. Thanks for the pointer. I would like to double check one thing. In my manual it says to fill system to 2.5 bar, charge...

Moved into a small house 2 years ago with a Worcester 28CDi combi boiler. It works fine, but I have noticed that the pressure would very slowly go down. There are no leaks to be seen, so I assume there is a small leak at a join under the floorboards. Sort of forgot about it this summer, but now...