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Are these new flats? If its all off one supply, does the Landlord pay the bill? The last flats I worked on we had the water company put in a new supply and meters for each flat as is the norm these days. Did the architect mean 25mm to each flat? Small blocks like this normally have a 32mm...

With new supplies, say a new building you would have to choose an energy supplier and they would fit the meter once the supply in installed As you already have the supply and metering in use, Northern Power Grid should move the meter over to the new supply otherwise they are leaving you with...

Hi, I had this exact same job done a few years ago by NEDL (Now Northern Power Grid. I think it was only £575, but that was a few year ago. It’s a fixed price to move up to 6 meters in length. Assuming it’s all on your own land (no additional permission required) it’s simple. You need to...

Were the houses not supplied by overhead lines and timber poles on a PME network and the earth/neutral had been stolen and the link connecting the neutral to earth down the poles (if there was one), leaving the neutral current to pass through the gas pipe? Most gas supplies are being...

Went to a look at a job as no heating and water. Leaking TRV had caused pressure drop so nice easy fix. However the boiler pressure was 0. No fault codes but the pump was continuously running. display showed 'c' for heating mode and burner was off. Fortunately the pump seems ok, and...

I do a lot of basic boiler repairs within my property maintenance work, but as I am not an RGI, I use British Gas one off repair for repairs I can’t legally do. I had a boiler which made a metallic screeching sound and then the fan stopped and it cut out. I therefore assumed a failed fan and...

I have some all electric flats I manage. The hot water is from a direct combination cylinder (400x1050) with a single immersion. Although the cylinders are mounted on a shelf in a cupboard in each flat, there is only about 1m head. The taps are mixer type and it takes ages to fill a bath...

I’m working on a 1950s ex-council flat with ten year old storage heaters. The total load off-peak is 70amps. The flat is at the end of the street and I guess furthest from the substation. The voltage is 235v but when the off-peak load switches on at midnight the voltage drops to 212v and...

Hi, I did a Ze test on a TT installation and got 24 ohms and a PFC of 10 amps at the rod. In theory if I removed the RCD and put a link from say a 32amp MCB to the earth bar in the CU with the bonding and other circuits disconnected, would a current of around 10 amps flow continuously to...

I have a Worcester Bosch, Greenstar Heatslave 18/25 oil combi boiler. It is around 6 years old. So far it has had 4 new flowswitches! They seem to eventually stick open causing the boiler to think there is a HW demand and then the overheat stat operates. It is a soft water area; there is...

Hi, I am working on a 1920’s property where a conifer tree has been panted about half a meter from the front window (between front window and front door). I’m guessing it’s about 20 years old (4 m high) and will be cut down as it’s blocking all light. I believe the roots have caused the...

Thanks for the replies. To clarify, there are 3 tails out from the meter, a neutral feeding both boards, a permananet live for general use and a switched live for the night rate. Npower says this is normal but is unable to explain how to use night rate for anything that is not wired to the...

I have a block of flats I manage with newish electronic economy 7 meters. There are 2 tails from the meter, one for day and one for night. These feed separate boards with combined neutral. One for lighting and power and one for storage heaters and immersion. The night output is dead during...

The flats I manage have 'cleaners sockets' although they are switched. They have a DP isolator in the cleaners store and are only live when the cleaner is working. This stops tenants whose prepayment meters are out of credit using landlord's electric :wink:

I had my meter and service cutout moved by NEDL in 2007. I exposed old cable and laid duct and string to new outside meter box. They pulled a new cable through and fitted new cutout, existing meter and new isolator and jointed to the old lead cable. Took about 2 hours. they also chnaged...

Hi, I have a Ravenheat Csi85t combi (yes I know it’s a cheap one and not the best make) It runs for 30 seconds to a minute and then goes to flame fail lockout although the flame doesn’t actually appear to fail before the lockout occurs, you can hear a relay click then the continuous fault...

Thanks Burnerman... I opened the bypass a little and opened the lockshields a quarter turn each and have had no problems since!

Hi, I have a Worcester Bosch Heatslave 18/25 oil combi. 5 years old, serviced annually. All appears fine but it sometimes goes to lockout when the heating is on. Its the 'boiler lockout' that trips not the flue or burner one so the lockout light doesn't come on. The burner just...

Hi all, I have a Worcester greenstar heatslave 18/25 oil combi boiler that’s three years old, serviced last year. First problem is that recently I have noticed the radiators are sometimes getting very hot, way too hot to touch and hotter than usual, thermostats all ok and I can’t see any...