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When I put my heating on from cold by switching on the programmer or by turning up the room stat there is a delay of some 5 minutes before the boiler starts up. The boiler is an oil fired worcester danesmoor 12/14 and the system was converted from gravity fed to a sealed system a few months ago...

Hi I`m fitting 2 new wall lights in my lounge and want to switch them and the ceiling light from the same wall switchpoint using a 2 way switch. (excuse if i`ve got this wrong but i`m not sure of the difference between 2 way and 2 gang) Can anyone advise the wiring scheme using the lighting...

Anyone know where I can get hold of the above? I`ve tried all the usual places including a short web search and they seem to be almost extinct which in these days of energy efficiency seems daft. Surely there must be a market for them. I`ve previously managed to use decent `London` type...

Can I use polypipe to connect onto the trv/valves of the new rad i am installing? I`ve run the feed & return in polypipe but am unsure how far i can take it. :?: Advice would be most welcome. Thanks Mike

Hi Sam Only logged on tonight & picked up your message. We are in Camborne, why do you ask? Mike

Hi Dave Thanks for reply. The 10 quotes were not actually quotes received but visits to estimate the cost for a quote. 10 came about after 6 of the tradesmen didnt even bother to reply with a quote, just looked at the system as it is and said they would get back to me. They mostly had...

Thanks for the info. Only got about 400mm from bottom of tank and top of where the rad would be. Looked at our tank and loft and no room to raise the tank there. The expansion cylinder/sealed system seems to be the answer but are there any problems assosciated with these and what if any is the...

Tony Thanks for reply. The property has insulation you mention although I intend to add to the loft insulation as at the moment it is only 50mm or so thick. The cost you mention is a lot less than any of the quotes we have had, less than half of the lowest. Several of the `engineers` didnt...

Recently moved and I`m looking to update our heating system. Looking for advice as to what we can get without spending a fortune. Just my wife and I in a three bed bungalow and we have a basic gravity fed system/pump for the rads/room stat/hw cylinder. No programmer or cylinder thermostat...

I`ve got a 6mtr x 2.5mtr floor that I want to lay laminate flooring on. Problem i`ve got is that half of the floor is concrete and the other half is thermoplastic tiles and this end is therefore higher than the concrete by the tile thickness: 3mm. This is because the room was originally two...

Advise please. I`ve got a replastered bare ceiling and want to put up plaster coving. Should I pva the ceiling before the coving goes up? Any info appreciated. Mike

Thanks for advice, now that i`ve got three x 3 core + E cables running from switch to switch backbox`s i`m unsure about where to run the third light switch cable to. Do I run it into either of the switches? This seems logical but this will mean 18 wires in total (inc earth wires) into one of...

Fellas Thanks for replies. Yes, I mean 2 switches each with 3 gangs. I thought it might be as simple as you say about following the same logic as 2 way switches but this will mean I have 3 runs of 3 core + e plus the normal T&E cable entering each back box, 11 Cores plus 4 Earths. This seemed...

I asked for help recently on how to wire 2 lights into 2 x 2 way switches. Had a positive response and was about to carry out the work when...... my wife (bless her) changed her mind and now thinks we need three ceiling lights instead of two as two look lost on the ceiling of our newly enlarged...

Hi Rob Thanks for the info. At the moment i`m in the process of fitting a new kitchen and would have liked to get this sorted out along the way. The old mixer tap was some 30 years old so the problem may have been the tap any way but the cold pressure was good from the same tap. What i would...

Hi Dave Thanks for reply. We moved into the bungalow in Jan this year and the problem has been there since then, almost certainly alwaye there. The system is quite basic and some 20 years old i think, although the boiler is only 3-4 years old. The water takes a long time to heat up when...

Advice please. The hot water supply to my kitchen sink tap has very low pressure and it takes a while for the hot water to come through. We live in a bungalow with the hot water cylinder in the centre of the building (oil fired/gravity fed system), but the hot water pipework to the kitchen...

Advice if poss please. I`ve converted our kitchen and dining rooms into one kitchen/diner and now I want to have the two room lights operated from 2 double switches, (one at each of the entrance's to the room). We may want to use either the kitchen half or dining half of the room at any one...

Anyone got ideas for the best sequence of work to install a new kitchen including a new ceramic tiled floor, ceiling coving, plumbing and wiring for electric cooker. sockets and ceiling lights? I`ve stripped out our old kitchen and had the ceiling stripped and replastered and now I literally...

I'm tiling into window reveals and i've got a problem. Anyone know the simple method for cutting mitres in plastic border trim? I want the trim to go on the room wall overlapping one tile thickness plus adhesive into the window reveal. Grateful for any advice.