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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...

We have a brother ES-2010 computer. When using it one day for something that was inevitably too thick it made a nasty noise and snapped the needle. It then wouldn't work properly. I dismantled the area underneath the needle and found that the rotary hook had a small chip out of the back. I...

We've just had British gas fit smart meters this morning and this afternoon they've fitted the hive smart thermostat. They left the heating running when they left but 15 minutes or so later I felt like the house want warning up so I went to check the boiler and it had F22 on the display. I...

Yes it is an MCB, the consumer unit is fairly modern, we had it replaced about 10 years ago. Sounds like it will be ok then. The cable probably could sit above the insulation, I'll ask on that one. If the cable is all going to be ok, I guess they could always swap the MCB over to a 40 amp?