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I managed to fix this, my suspicions of a rose ceiling light and an additional light added at some point later were correct. Cable 2 was a switched live for the ceiling lights, so when I shorted the red a blue wires in this cable the ceiling lights came on. Cable 1 was a permanant live...

Hi all, I'm looking at wooden worktops for our kitchen, I've noticed a massive variation in prices from store to store. I'm guessing this is due to the quality of the wood used for the worktop. Is there a "good" supplier to use and what is the real world difference? Pricewise, I'm...

The earths are all connected together. I think I've figured it out.... That at some point, the 4 ceiling lights have replaced what was a rose light and one of the cables is a live / switched live not a Live/Neutral, hence why two of the cables going to the switch have a live red feed.... I...

In our house, we have 8 lights in the bathroom and one double switch by the door. One switch is for 4 lights in the ceiling and one switch is for 4 downlights above the mirror. The light switch is a double switch like this: I want to move the light switch, so I've noted the wiring and...

Our combi boiler is not firing up when we turn the heating on, but for hot water its running fine and fires up as soon as a hot tap is opened. It's one of these: Worcester junior combi boiler - either a 24i or a 28i, I can't see anywhere on the boiler where the model number would be...

Thanks, She has a gas boiler which I assume heats the water and for central heating. She came round very angry last night after her alarm went off, very rude actually.

So I lit the fire at 9am this morning, neighbours alarm went off about half an ago (11pm) which is 14 hours after our fire was lit.... Doesn't match to the night time alarms and also the fact the alarm went off on Thursday when we hadn't had a fire for 4 nights. I think I'll ring the chimney...

I'm going to have a chat with her this evening to tell her we heard her alarm go off last night and that we haven't had a fire so she should get someone out to check her boiler ASAP, because I would put money on it that it's her boiler causing the problem, not our fire/chimney

So at 3am this morning, I heard an alarm going off in her house that woke me up, I'm assuming it's the monoxide alarm (sounded like a smoke alarm). Haven't lit our fire this week, so I'm fairly certain now it's not our chimney causing an issue. This is strange though because I've never heard...

Thanks, I'll try that Homefire stuff, will have to find where to buy it.... Good idea about the daytime test, I'll try that this weekend and see what happens; hopefully my monoxide monitor will arrive today or tomorrow so I'll go in each room of our house to check the levels as it has a...

This is exactly what I thought.... When we first moved into the house (1st May 2012) we lit a fire or two and immediately she told us of this problem and that she had sent letters to the estate agent but we were never told until we moved in (and by her). At this point, we agreed with her to...

I've ordered a Carbon Monoxide monitor with LCD screen with live monitoring figures so I'll check the levels in our house before I do anything, but if it gives higher than expected readings I'll have to call in the experts.

This is my thought considering the alarm is going off about 4-5 hours after the fire goes out.... Is there any possibility carbon monoxide would be from our fire because I don't think so; doesnt' seem to add up. What makes it strange though is that she only moans when we are having fires, so...

Our neighbour is an old lady and when we moved into the house she told us there was some problems with the chimney leaking and that the previous owner wasn't compliant with getting a smoke test done. So we agreed with her to get a smoke test done in August, the chimney sweep guy sealed up the...

I have a combi boiler (on demand hot water), no hot water tank. The water pressure is good, I don't know the exact pressure, I'm assuming it's probably a high pressure system as opposed to a low pressure system (looking at products currently on the market listed either high or low). I want...