Search results

"You can CCTV the drains, and test the incoming mains" i'll kick off with these two items on monday. hopefully will be able to cross them off the list of possible causes. "If the floors are not significantly uneven then they can be left alone " two floors have a slight dip in the...

Situation: detached bungalow built 1958, concrete floors, hall and lounge floor covering is original wood block parquet, remaining rooms 'marley' type tiles. property has been uninhabited for several months. noticed there are no airbricks anywhere in the structure. cavity wall...

Thanks for the advice - it was an issue with power not being delivered to the bell box, as suggested. I now have another problem with this bellbox.... When the master control unit is opened the bellbox sounds. When I key the PIN into the control panel and reset, the tamper light...

:lol: u got it! Ok, been up the ladder AGAIN... Followed the installation manual exactly - opened control unit, so tamper circuit open - up to bellbox, swap jumper to switch battery ON - the left hand most LED is flashing.... Fixed bellbox cover in place, back to control box, closed it...

LED's not flashing. I installed the bellbox on Friday (without the yellow wire linked), and in the evening sure I saw the right handmost LED flash briefly. Maybe I was hallucinating!

Hi - thanks for responding with advice, the control unit is C&K 700, about 10 yrs old. I've been up the ladder this morning and wired as suggested, but can't get the sounder or strobe to activate. The internal sounder is working as expected, both when I select the 'bell test' option and...

Popping my intruder alarm cherry today... Replacing a dead bellbox which has a rotting battery and rusty pcb inside, with a texecom odyssey 1. There is 6 core cable exiting the control box, the odyssey has only 5 terminals... The source of each core in the cable at control box is as...

Many thanks for the advice - sulphate has not been proven, a structural engineer reported it is the 'likely' cause. TBH, the floors are in a bad way, as i described previously, and I want to make them good, both for my own use and so as to be able to sell the property on without issue in the...

...it appears many thousands of british home owners have wearily trodden the path I am about to take, due to poor construction methods in the 50's and 60's... I'm planning to dig out and replace all floors (they are awful, some sunken, some bulging, some cracked) - but I can't establish...

thanks both for responding - will consider honywell next time. I ordered and received what was described as a 'replacement actuator head' for this model of valve. Only the grey plastic box containing a motor and visible cog has been supplied - have i ordered the wrong part? I expected to...

Thanks for the confirmation. Another q..... I see the 3 port valve as being three components: Head (grey plastic box housing motor, with rachet cog visible) Body (having manual override lever, microswitches, two or three springs) Pipe work (T shape pipe junction containing valve...

Hello, Lot's of great, informative posts on here have inspired me to attempt to resolve a 3 port valve issue: Siemens MA-V322C, 3 port valve, approx 9 yrs old. Worked well for years, then buzzing noise started for a few months and eventually had to use the manual override lever on...

Did you really buy a house for under 40K - or is that a typo?