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Thanks, Terry. Would that also cause the small leak through the nut above it? I was tempted to get my spanner and give it a turn - not recommended I suppose, especially if it's the valve that's the problem.

Yes, three pipes. The lower box is the electrical supply to the various things in the cupboard (pump, water timer etc.) . The one on the wall is the controller for the wireless thermostat. The immersion is top left - a plug that is definitely off. (I leave it in disconnected as the wire...

Although the immersion heater is plugged in, it is switched off. Cylinder stat at 40 at the moment, HW is red hot.

Here is the valve. There's a little pool of water around the big nut above the valve - is that normal?

Will do that tomorrow. Thanks for the replies so far everyone.

muggles - no. terry - not sure (just one big valve that I can see near the bottom of the cylinder).

The hot water from the storage cylinder is far too hot. I turned the timer setting to 'off' three days ago and it's still very hot - hand burningly so. The cylinder stat is set at 60. I suspect that the water is at the same temperature as the central heating system; could someone guide me...

I went down to my friend's house yesterday - very warm. I touched one of the radiators and it was extremely hot - too hot to touch, really. He has the same boiler and system as me (Worcester Bosch) with a hot water tank etc. He showed me the boiler and he has the flow temperature at the...

Yes, that's what we've decided to do. There was an issue with lack of parking too so not a difficult decision to make. Thanks everyone.

If she did, we might get a reduction for it being a haunted house, I suppose!:oops:

Sorry, I didn't take any. The owner/landlady said that her mother (previous occupant) hadn't had any issues with it.

Could a bulging ceiling in a living-room be due to a poor removal of a chimney breast? It was only removed from the ground floor level and I'm not sure how the builder supported it upstairs. It's a possible rental for a relative so I want to be a bit safety-conscious, although it's been like...

It's £105 extra for installation, so presumably they're qualified electricians.

Thanks for all the useful replies. So would the fitters from the delivery company be OK to hook everything up? They charge about £100, which is similar to having my own electrician I suppose. I'm sure that the company that did my EICR and new CU would do it - the problem with these...

I see that my electric shower is on 40A and that's the biggest in the CU. Would it be safer to ask the electrician to put a similar one in for the new cooker circuit, or would that require a new cable?

I'm looking at a new electric cooker with an induction hob. The instructions state that it draws a maximum of 10.8KW and that the 'fuse rating' is 46.5A. So what size breaker will it need in the CU (currently 32A, so not big enough) and will it need an updated cable? Several people have asked...

I'm in SE London and my bills so far have reflected the correct readings when I inspect the meters. But the web pages of my supplier have a page which is supposed to show the amount used each day, monthly totals and costs etc. That is always missing some days or even weeks, showing zero usage...

Is an electric cooker safe if not RCD protected? I thought that they were considered pretty much like electric showers - potentially lethal without an RCD.

In case you hadn't read about it, tonight's Panorama on BBC1 is about the rollout and effectiveness of these meters. I've watched it on iPlayer this morning and it's very informative. Lots of stuff I hadn't realised or known about.....and I follow this forum! (I'm in London, so your edition...

This was what mine looked like two years ago before they were changed. I suspect that the UK Power electricians were concerned about the amount of insulation that had been removed all those years ago. I wonder if they would have changed them if I hadn't ordered a more powerful cutout.