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Yes, Hive did everything else I wanted, and aesthetically I prefer it to Nest, which is why I chose it originally. The timeslot limitation is just too big a drawback for me to live with though. Allowing as many timeslots as a user wants to add into a schedule should not be a difficult technical...

I have not had a technician to inspect it but after a long chat with Nest support it seems a Nest does exactly what I need. You can schedule as many slots as required (but they have to be 1 hour minimum so max 24 slots in a day). The secondary purpose for the Smart element was being able to set...

I disagree about the thermostat. I need more timeslots because there are lots of periods in a day that I don't want the heating on at all. Setting a lower temp over a longer period is the only alternative and from experience that adds a lot of moeny to my gas bills, as well as not being warm...

I don't like the schedule. I run my heating on and off many times per day to fit around being out and also just the efficiency of the boiler. It saves me money. I have to do this nearly every night during winter, due to daily variations, and the timer is on the boiler in an understated cupboard...

I bought a Hive with professional installation on Amazon but I hate it so returning it for refund. Since the receiver has already been wired up, am I right in thinking it will now be simple to swap the receiver over with one for a Nest or some other smart thermostat? Hoping so or might be a...

I will try to do a diagram to show what I can see. I still can't understand the single live from landing switch to loft. It can't be borrowing a neutral since there is only 1 circuit in the loft. How can it work without a neutral?

I'm not sure it can be a shared neutral if that can still be live with the circuit off. I have had this particular lighting circuit off alone and changed the switches over without being electrocuted. The whole upstairs lighting is on the same circuit, and the hall light is also on this circuit...

Yes, it is obviously at least part of the problem. I'm confused about the single red cable going from the landing switch to the loft as well though. How does one single live cable connect to the landing light, yet the landing light has several cables connected, including one sleeved as earth...

First of all, I am getting an electrician to put this right and I'm not going to work on the circuit, but I would like to understand what is going on, especially so I don't get any wool pulled over my eyes. Basically we have a lighting circuit with incomplete earthing (electrician says...

Does it need to be near the stopcock though, or will it work if I just fit it anywhere I can access the pipework? Also noticed it does it with hot too so not sure if that affects any answers.

No, don't want one, wife and kids always having baths so would end up costing more!

Yeah, this is why I was hoping I could stick a £20 device at a more accessible part of the pipework to be rid of the water hammer.

It's hard to tell. It's hidden behind a kitchen cupboard in a corner unit and also has plasterboard over it. There's a hole cut out to operate the tap and from what I can see the pipes don't look copper at that point. No obvious compression fittings on the tap. An electrician fitted our cooker...

True. So you think it could be the stopcock that needs replacing? It is louder when the stopcock is more closed. It looks pretty old. I don't think I'd be able to DIY replace it though.

I agree but nothing has changed other than the flexible hose.

Not without taking the kitchen apart. It is not just the washer dryer, its any tap when it gets shut off, unless another tap is open at the same time. The washer dryer is just particularly annoying as it's equivalent to someone slamming a cold tap shut every 10 seconds and can't be doing the...

Those look an easy solution but does it matter where along the pipework they are fitted? The only place with any real accessibility is under the bathroom sink. The stopcock is extremely inaccessible.

Yeah, stopcock is fully open. If it is closed more, the hammer noise is louder. Nothing else changed other than a like for like swap over of a flexi hose. The pipework is oldish and the stopcock looks like it has seen better days, but been here over 5 years and had the stopcock off a few times...

I have an annoying case of water hammer and really hoping for some help on how to solve it. Due to a minor leak I replaced the flexible hoses under the bathroom sink recently, and this meant turning off the main stopcock, as the isolator tap is built in to the hose. Ive turned the stopcock off...

There is one earth cable that will go into the new light, so I should buy a connector block to put the earth into and leave that loose in the fitting? What about the other end of the same earth cable at the junction box? Does that stay connected? Or should I remove it from the circuit so it...