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This concealed cistern has just started to fill very slowly - really just a drizzle out of the back of the valve assembly on the right (which I think should flow onto the plastic tray underneath). Problem is that access is very tight, there’s an opening just big enough to get a hand in and the...

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Thanks both - it is an odd size, about 9mm outside diameter, the 3/8” ones I’ve just bought are far too big...

Have a leak on a flexi-to-flexi hose join on the hot outlet from a Quooker hot water boiler - am I right in thinking that there should be a rubber or fibre washer or o-ring between the two fittings? It’s been fitted for about five years, and there was only a bit of indeterminate black...

Perfect sense - now working as intended, thanks again.

I didn’t check - will confirm and report back. Thanks!

I’ve just replaced an existing nightlatch with a Yale P89 non-automatic deadlocking one, with new lock barrel, which should deadlock from outside with a reverse turn of the key. I was expecting the deadlock to require a 360 degree anticlockwise turn to engage (ie the opposite direction to...

No, that’s as it was, think something may have been miscommunicated to me - one of the PIRs was not working and the time delay on the other seems to be temperamental; I removed the broken one and the other seems (so far) to be working as intended. Does the switch wiring look as it should?

Think I may have been on the end of some crossed wires - just looked, and I think this is as it should be; right of the picture (L/H switch on faceplate) is for the fluorescent. Floodlights turn on and off OK manually, but I need to get up the ladder to turn down the settings in order to check...

Yes, the paired wires are for the two floodlights - that makes sense, I will report back...

No, that’s the only switch there has ever been for the fluorescent tubes and these floodlights - will investigate further in the daylight, thanks again.

No, that’s the only switch for the fluorescent, it’s been like that since installed in the late 80s - I was careful to swap the red wires one by one so I didn’t mix them (which was a pain). What confuses me is that neither PIR is turning the floodlights on - seems unlikely they would both fail...

This is the before:

Thanks, that’s what I can’t work out - will take a photo in the daylight.

A few months ago I replaced a broken 2 gang 2 way switch - one gang operates an internal fluorescent tube, the other a pair of PIR halogen floodlights. I wired it exactly as the original switch. The floodlights (also new replacements) are wired as originally so that either PIR sensor turns them...

No need to be facetious. Having to comply with building regs will add substantial cost which won't be reflected in the house's value, hence won't make a lot of economic sense.

Money.

Thanks, thought as much - that puts a stop to that plan.

There's an existing door on the small landing at the top of the staircase into the second floor room.

Thanks for the comments, I've now viewed the house in person - if it isn't an original feature, it's definitely been there for a very long time. The staircase and bannisters match all the way up to the attic room and it certainly hasn't had any work done in the last thirty years. Would...