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I opened the downstairs switch to look at the wires and nothing looked loose. I also opened the downstairs hall light and inspected the wires and again nothing looked loose. Yeah, I was wondering if the switch may be on their way out and so not passing current through every now and then. Just...

I found that the downstairs hall light would not turn on yesterday when I turn the switch in the downstairs hall on. However, when I went upstairs and turned the switch up there, which also control the light in the downastairs hallway, the light works. Then the switch downstairs started to...

We are looking to get a new roof next year and when we got roofers round to get a quote, one company said that it would be cheaper and more efficient to reduce the chimney stack and bring it below the tiles, that is knock off the chimney stack until it is only high enough to be in the loft...

I mean OTT for the modern day boiler that I have there now, which doesn't need ventilation.

thanks. then i should just get a new door fitted without a grill opening as the cupboard is big enough for air circulation anyway.

potterton promax combi boiler. it is quite old though so will probably need replacing in the next few years.

it's quite a big cupboard under the stairs. i will get a ventilation grill fitted at the bottom of the door as having one at the top and one at the bottom (which is the current arrangement on the old door) is a bit OTT I think.

Does a door to a combi boiler cupboard need to have vent slats? The current door have one at the top and one at the bottom but this was there when the old boiler was there, which was a conventional gas boiler with a hot water tank. The existing boiler is a combi boiler and I am looking to...

yeah, when you turn the dial to hot, the flow rate reduces, which is normal. however, it has started to reduce the water flow too much so you don't get much hot water at all.

the flow rate reduces drastically to trickling as soon as the dial is turned to hot. it could be the sensor on the shower is broken.

I have a gainsborough electric shower that was working until this morning when the flow rate on the cold seems fine but when I turn the switch to hot on the shower, very little water comes out, although the little bit of water that does come out does get hot. Any ideas what the problem is? Is...

I have an old hoover washing machine which has started to leak at the front, just under the bottom. There doesn't seem to be a leak at the back of the machine and the leak is isolated to the front. I have checked that there is no leak at the waste pipe as it is a freestanding one, where you...

NICEIC has Domestic Installer and Approved Contractor status registered electricians. It states that Approved Contractor has to pass more stringent tests. I need to get an EICR for my house, so can I use a domestic installer, who has not attained the approved contractor status with NICEIC? I...

Yeah. I don't think I am going to get anything cheaper than £150 from what you say.

Going rate is about £90 an hour. So to fit the basin taps, plumbers estimate an hour. I am guessing he is estimating 1.5 hr for bath taps, so an extra 30 minutes. Doesn't sound unreasonable if you say that it normally takes longer to replace bath taps over basin taps.

Thanks. I would expect to pay £80 to £90 to get basin taps replaced. I have been quoted £150 for bath taps, so I am trying to work out if this is a reasonable estimate by seeing how much more difficult bath taps are to replace over and above basin taps.

i know that it doesn't take any longer if you had to do this in a workshop setting and it is down to access in home settings. is it generally harder to get access to the bath taps than the basin taps? and are bath taps generally harder to take off than basin taps if they are old?

Is replacing bath taps a much harder job than replacing basin taps? I mean does it take a lot longer to do?

Update - so i asked the plumber as you guys have advised and you guys are right, he said he had planned to only replace the front of the taps and leave the pillars in place. it would have been nice of him to tell me this upfront as i could have paid him £50 for an ugly job that i did not want...

cheers. i went to product information rather than customer service. will email them. i checked the SES bulbs I have and I was mistaken as they are 40W and not 60W, so I think I may actually be OK with these.