Recent content by Useroftheforce

Stopcock works a treat and the cock on the water meter also works - so we are well covered - for which we are grateful. Yeah ok - so looks like I'll be chopping out in the ceiling where there is a nice straight run and primofit onto that - as opposed to the vertical which we will otherwise have...

Hmm - interesting, thank you. In that case, the only reason for disturbing it at all is to modify the existing circuits to basically split what will be remaining hard feed into kitchen tap and softener feed - and then the connecting the softener return to the rest of the house. But disturb it...

Thank you for the answer - can I check that I have understood correctly that we are drinking water which is passing through a lead pipe? Or is that a sleeve for another material perhaps? The previous owners in their 80's had lived here over 50 years and are not suffering mentally, which is why I...

The photo shows the main junction of pipe work in our property and all my questions centre around the steel cold water feed pipe and its unions. The water comes from the meter, under another room about 4m run from the meter and emerges in this room behind this panelling. The water then passes as...

Thanks for the reply, Is that a viable option? Is ‘resin’ a suitable material? Where can I find the right resin? Sounds better than pulling it all apart! Sorry if this is al common knowledge, not to me it isn’t. Thanks again

Our 20mm marble hearth stone has cracked in a fairly central position. The crack is all the way through, but weirdly is wide at the front and closed near the fire. To properly fix this will require re-painting the 7x3m wall [we just had painted] plastering the damage we do finding the fixings...

Thanks very much for your help guys. The whole point is to avoid costly redecoration [again] which was recently completed. So no fitting changes or wall damage allowed. Fitting an additional wire for the dimmer circuit is therefore out. I'll return this and get him to fit the voltcon triac...

Ok. I did check this compatibility sheet (p35) to ensure this ballast “HF-R 158 TLD EII” would work and the diagram in the first post was its wiring diagram. It is specified as the only compatible dimmable ballast for that tube and specified as AC input. Which is the reason for my confusion and...

Ah . . . many thanks. So for this tube, no ballast is needed, just the standard trailing edge dimmer ? It says dimmable, "depends on ballast" in its specs - which is where I guess my understanding probably went off tracks.

I have asked my [friendly] electrician to fit a dimmable LED ballast with dimmable LED T8 tubes to two T8 batons. His time is money and I prefer to pay him for doing the practical stuff I need as opposed to all the theory and questions which I prefer to understand myself. I am just wondering if...

I am looking for any gotchas or obvious points I might have overlooked in the following plan: I’ve never done floor digging and repairing before, or burying pipes – but done plenty of DIY and plumbing so reasonably confident. I am replacing a concrete buried 15mm copper pipe + compression...

I am looking for any gotchas or obvious points I might have overlooked in the following plan: I’ve never done floor digging and repairing before, or burying pipes – but done plenty of DIY and plumbing so reasonably confident. I am replacing a concrete buried 15mm copper pipe + compression...

It didn't occur to me that / that could be the issue! I'll fork out for another one then :)

This may be time for a new machine I am not sure. . . My 12 year old trusty WFO2840 stopped heating water a year or so back and I replaced the heating element in the bottom with a genuine Bosh item. It worked for a few days without a problem and then started to wash cold again. The new...