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Living down to my moniker, I believe Simon meant "should not be getting water..."

I've got a Wylex rewireable fusebox and installed such MCBs. When the flat above sprang a leak which got into my lighting circuit, it was a darn site easier to flick the MCB back on than to rewire a fuse. (You do need to use the complete unit, i.e. you need to use a screwdriver to remove the...

In Entry 12, Captain Nemesis said "London".

Yes, it's a 60mm. sparkymacka said "It should be a straight swap over". Many thanks. Edited to remove ambiguity.

Short question: does anyone know how easy it is to transplant the innards of a Yale 91 nightlatch (link): https://www.yale.co.uk/en/yale/couk/products/mechanical/nightlatches/91---basic-security-nightlatch/ into the Yale 89 nightlatch shown in the picture below: Long explanation: The Yale 89...

A previous thread reckons you need to be careful about access to a boiler in the loft: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/gas-boiler-and-isolation-regs.548345/

I think that explanation is wrong. It's a 50% discount/rebate for meals costing up to £20. So you should pay £8 for your buffet and the restaurant can claim the other £8 from the government. Of course it's more complicated than that, e.g., only valid on Mon to Wed during August and the...

Stivino said "I've got bulbs similar to that. I'm sure that the lamps came with a sucker to remove the bulbs but you have to push them in and twist them, iirc." Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/spotlight-bulb-replacing.545711/#ixzz6QTzX9r5l Such a sucker might be (link)...

In the interests of being condescending, I'd suggest you make sure the relevant (if you've got more than 1) lighting circuit has been powered off in your CU before pulling out the switch so as to get the photo as asked for by EFLI. Hopefully on the rear of the switch will be some sort of (raised...

I've tried to "start a conversation" with you but as I've never done it before I may well have got it wrong.

I've got some relations who live in Potters Bar, I did wonder if they knew Dilalio and if he might have an offcut. However my current favourite idea is Nozzle's suggestion of removing the innards and putting in a blanking cap, that's as long as I don't have to remove the valve and put it in a...

Thanks for both of these I'll try to switch brain on (not always easy). Thanks again.

As feared the light was a problem, I don't know whether this photo is good enough. The tank is really 2 tanks connected together, the right hand one is the inlet and the left hand the outlet. The jammed valve is on the right, as you can see there's plenty of room to add a valve, there's...

Originally I thought of just adding the new valve but, probably for spurious reasons, decided against it. I'll get a photo tomorrow as long as I can get sufficient light in a dark loft.

The outlet from my cold water tank is a 28mm pipe, the valve (which hasn't been used for ~ 30 years) is jammed. I'd like to replace it with a ball valve (aka lever valve ?) but Peglers website says their valve is 96mm long and the current one is 113mm. I reckon my chances of, ahem, finding (in...

Living down to my moniker: BBC news website says: The latest instructions to officers from the College of Policing for England and Wales says: "Officers should only enforce the Health Protection Regulations - government guidance is not enforceable, for example two-metre distancing, avoiding...

I'm sure the best advice is to replace it with an LED light, but if you want to look at possibilities then this link: https://www.lampshoponline.com/control-gear/hf-ballasts-non-dimmable/tridonic-pc-ballasts/tridonic-pc-basic.html shows the sort of thing you'd need. You'd need to be careful to...

I have got such a 2D lamp working again with some new electronics. This link: https://www.lampshoponline.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=tridonic+ballast+basic+2d brings up the sort of thing I bought. Obviously do be careful that you look at ones which are suitable for the power of your lamp.

I'd be tempted to use a hacksaw, being careful to do it as close to right angles as possible. Then, assuming you want to end up with a gap between the 2 ends and that there's now some play in the pipe, use something like this (link)...

Do you intend reusing the cables which currently carry 12v ?