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Yes, I can run an extension from another room and see if I get the same heat doing that.

Any thoughts on what he might have meant or done?

The cons unit is in the garage, one floor down from the Util room, but the other side of a supporting wall. As far as I can see, all the cabling from the consumer unit exits at the back of it, through this wall into the void space below the util room

So, at the very least, you agree I should cut off the moulded plug and replace with a quality one?

Footnote: whilst we're of the opinion that there's been crossed wires installed by the electricians, everything else in the house still works fine, including all of the kitchen sockets.

Need to provide some background; Original electrical installation in our utility room had one twin 13 amp socket plate above worktop, with two holes drilled in worktop, and two cables passing through worktop feeding washing machine and tumble dryer below. Ugly. On refurbishing the room, we got...

Yes, please.

I said I'd take my tools around next time I see them, so probably about a week for photos of control unit, etc. to follow. Thanks so far!

Relatives have a vintage Triton Spa Bath, with a cable-style remote control for the various functions. It's not working, hasn't done for many years, but I have no clear picture on what the fault symptoms are yet Local plumbers have forsaken them, won't touch the electrics. They had a...

I have no idea what the supply pressure is, no...

Folks in the family are getting a standard boiler and hot water tank replaced with a combi, and it's been suggested that they could take this opportunity to get their cold water tank removed. All the showers in the house are electric, so the cold water tank feeds baths, basins and WCs. One...

Fitted a couple of B&Q own brand (Parkside?) halogen PIR security lights around 10-11 months ago. After a while, one started acting up and not switching off. Disconnected that a few days ago, and the other is now tripping the circuit breaker when it times out. Everything else on the same...

Thanks, I reached the point where, although I was trying to avoid it, I removed the wall light, which was a bit of a fiddle, but that showed me the supply cable leading straight upward, and with nothing else in the vicinity, that gave me the go-ahead. EDIT - and I've just seen the previous post...

I want to put some deep wall fittings/fixings below the wall lights in one of my rooms. This is an external wall. Logic suggests that since the room has ceiling lights too, that the electricians/builders would have run the cable in the pitched roof void above the ceiling, and dropped them down...

You can get an HDD/DVD machine for less than £350. The £500 machine is/was the one with VHS/HDD/DVD, but that seems to be unavailable at the moment. That would be ideal for your VHS tapes. You won't need to download anything, you won't need to install anything, you won't need to be...

If you were previously able to connect them to a DVD recorder, you'll be able to connect them to an HDD/DVD recorder. The one I have has SCART sockets for inputs. An HDD/DVD like the Panasonic allows you to edit, crop, create chapters etc on the HDD, with a very intuitive menu system, then...

Essentially correct. Cold water comes in from the mains, and the electric shower is essentially a kettle where the water is coming in, being heated, and going out. The temperature is varied by changing the flow rate through the kettle - the longer it stays, the lower the flow rate - the hotter...

...or get a combined HDD/DVD recorder, such as those made by Panasonic, where the editing software is already built in, has little or no learning curve, and which can be used as a regular Freeview recorder as well as copying the 8mm and VHS tapes .... ?

What kind of DVD recorder do you have?

I'd loosen the speaker grilles as well, see what's behind them....