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I'm adding a radiator and have found that the pipework wasn't as I thought it was and I'm limited on what does I can pull up to investigate further. I've attached a quick drawing of the upstairs. The red lines are 22m pipes that I can see, the blue lines are 15mm pipes that I can see. I can...

Currently the 7m of 15mm goes to a towel radiator style radiator in the utility room. It isn't thermostatically controlled. I can't remember the BTU but I remember it was specified as one that would hear the room as many of the towel radiator were low output. It is about 6 foot high in total but...

Thanks for the reply. It is not a combi boiler. It is a conventional system. We have the storage tanks in the loft, a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and the boiler in the utility room behind the garage. It has a Y valve in the airing cupboard. It is a slightly awkward layout due to...

I'm currently having some building work done. As part of this I'll be adding a radiator. This will be more or less directly above the boiler. The 22mm flow and return pipes run straight past where I want to put the radiator, so I was going to just tee in and run 15mm to the new radiator. That...

Well that didn't end well! I bought an exact match of the capacitor. I carefully desoldered the old capacitor and confirmed that it acted differently with the multimeter compared to the new one. So it certainly looked faulty. I carefully soldered the new one in place. I then double checked...

Our old single oven came with a moulded plug attached. We had to cut it off in order to write it to the cooker circuit. Our new double oven needed wiring direct to the cooker circuit and couldn't be used on a plug.

I decided to delve further. I used a mains voltage tester to test the power going to the motor of the electronic damper unit. It isn't the most accurate thing ever but reported 6v to start with. I later tested it and it showed 24v. I was expecting around 100v. I checked the continuity of the...

I realise this is 2 years old but I have this exact problem. Did you ever solve it? Mine is a slightly different model of fridge freezer but had the same kind of electronic damper. Like you, I bought a new one and it does exactly the same. I thought I had found a work around by loosening the...

I'm still having issues with this. I've just been away for a week, so before we left we used up all the food and then I turned it off and left it off for the week. Exactly the same problem on getting back and turning it on. I have found that loosening the screw that holds the spring metal that...

I left the fridge freezer running for 1 week without the electronic damper in place (completely removed) and it maintained the correct temperature consistently (checked with a proper fridge and freezer thermometer) for the whole week. The replacement flap arrived today - fitted and the...

Yes, I turned it off for about an hour the first time I took it apart. When it came back on it had both lights flashing and it was beeping, I found on the internet that I then needed to turn the right dial all the way anti clockwise and wait a few seconds to reset it. It then sprang back into life.

I left it running overnight without the flap mechanism in place on the fridge. In the morning it was very cold so it proved that it can work. I monitored the flap which was still moving, so I put the flap mechanism back in place. When we came back the fridge was warm again. I took the flap off...

I've got a Hotpoint ff7910 fridge freezer. It is quite a big fridge freezer with a freezer at the bottom and fridge at the top. For the past few weeks the freezer has been getting too cold. Ice cream has been rock solid! The above was annoying but not the end of the world's but it has now...

I just noticed that the tiles on that part of the roof go in a straight line, does that matter? The same tiles on the main roof overlap by half a tile. Obviously they've been in a straight line like this for somewhere around 30 years but should they overlap? They have quite a large interlocking...

It really is just the aesthetics that matter. The pitched roof has plastic sheeting underneath should any water get through, then if it got past that, the old flat roof looks to still be in good condition underneath and that has some kind of lead guttering leading to an exit pipe. There has...

Just over 85mm for the upstand if I go with Red. I'm still undecided. I think 6" of upstand will look like a big thick strip compared to the size of the roof. I've taken the top row of tiles off today, cleaned off the bitumen and the flashing tape, removed the silicone that ran across the...

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Right, I've purchased a 6m roll of 300mm code 4 lead, and a bag of hall clips. I'm just trying to decide the way that will look best. I've attached a picture below - which gives the two basic options. I have marked them in red and blue - they aren't exactly to scale and the angle of the camera...

Thanks for the replies, I found somewhere online that does 270mm wide code 4. If I did go for the more widely available 300mm, would I adjust to make it fit or cut it and use the scrap to make the wedge things to hold it in place? I'm thinking of getting a 6m roll and cutting it into 1.2m...

We have a small tiled roof over our porch/bay window. It was originally built as a flat roof, then a previous owner put the tiled roof over the top on a slope to improve aesthetics (probably in the late 80s). Unfortunately they didn't put proper lead flashing on. They just put some very thin...