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I replaced the old Sioux Chief arrestor with a Pegler arrestor - problem solved!

Hello, Do these ever need replacing? We have one on the feed to an electric shower (fitted many years ago), and the water hammer seems to be getting worse again when the shower is turned off. I wonder if they sometimes need to be replaced. Thanks in advance.

HI, Thank you for you reply. The airbrick is in the chimney breast in the room.

Hi, I would appreciate some advice please. We live in a 1926 built house. Upstairs bedroom has an external wall, with a chimney breast, with an air vent into the room. External chimney is approx. 2m high, with a cowel on top to stop rain going down the inside. For a few months we have noticed...

This may be a "how long is a piece of string" type question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Our panel radiators are over 35 years old and there has always been rust inhibitor in the system. However, over the years the system has been emptied /refilled a number of times (extend system; replace...

My mother has a 400w PIR floodlight on the outside rear of her bungalow. The cable is fed through a door frame (which is below the light) and it's plugged into a ring main socket in the room. In the adjacent room there is an overhead single tube fluorescent light fitting, run off the lighting...

Thanks for your very interesting replies. Assuming that it is due to the internal electronics, I guess I will be very unlikely to be able to solve the problem. Even I replace the older TV to end up with two of the same make, I assume that it wouldn't guarantee they would be in synch. and would...

Unfortunately it's the same when the new TV is on HD or non-HD stations. Thanks anyway.

Hi, I hope that someone can help with the following. We have a kitchen diner with an archway to the main living room. We have an HD Ready Toshiba TV in the diner, and until recently, a Sony HD Ready TV in the living room. The sounds/pictures have always matched on BBC1 & BBC2, not London ITV...

I agree with BertyUK - join your local Streetlife groups and ask for recommendations.

Thanks for your comments. Have decided to play safe and have it professionally installed. Gives us peace of mind.

Hi jj4091 I should have made it clearer - the supplier will already have connected the flexible hose to the cooker.

Hi We are about to order a new gas cooker. I intended to disconnect the old one via the bayonet fitting, and reconnect the new cooker at the same fitting (the cooker would be supplied with a new flexible hose). I have been told that this re-connection of the new cooker can nowadays only...

Hi Not my disaster, but I think it's quite funny. I went on holiday recently, and the first day I was away my mother (who lives nearby) found water dripping from her hallway ceiling. Knowing I was away, she phones my brother-in-law who lives 5 miles away. He was putting up new fences...

Hi Richard, blightyman and dcdec, Thanks for your suggestion. Should have thought of it myself really but was trying to save a few bob although I was also dreading doing the work myself. Have now found a plasterer by personal recommendation of a neighbour. It turned out the...