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NOTE the advice given above about checking all lights on the same circuit. That looks to me like your single light switch has the switch drop from the bulb and a 3 core strap to the three way switch. If I am right, follow the 'two wire' three way switching guidance on LRF's website. , If you...

Good spot. My answer assumes all of the lights are on the same circuit. (I am not a spark so quick q: Yes, they could be on different circuits and the OP needs to check, but wouldn't that be an existing compliance issue? I thought having multiple circuits in the same accessory was a regs no no...

Assuming it's a new generation Lightwave switch and assuming that the browns are live, and that the blues are switched live (they need sleeving) in the one way switches (you need to be sure of these assumptions before proceeding): Connect all three browns into the 'L' port on the new Lightwave...

Hi Madrab, Thanks. I can't see any practical issue with a programmer and thermostat across those contacts as they're dumb. There is either an open circuit (no heating demand) or closed (demand). For all the boiler knows, I could wire in a light switch across them. Warranty is moot - boiler is...

Thanks everyone for the replies to this. To the poster that asked who I had found to provide a suitable extractor: WestIn.

Thanks all for the replies to this. I ended up finding a route behind the kitchen cupboards (adjacent room), going through the wall immediately into the back of the socket. Ended up being no need to co-route with the electrics.

Hi, Just bought a house with a Glow Worm 30CI boiler. It has no external controls so I plan to fit a combined programmer and thermostat across the volt free contacts. The instructions are clear but they don't seem to indicate I can remove the internal programmer - they're explicit that I *can*...

Yes, they're great.

Hi John, Thank you. Yes, that's the sort of bell push look I am going for. The problem with that sort of thing, though (as you say, available by the million) is that it's a closed/unknown wireless protocol to drive the plug in doorbell. I need the bell push to be able, ultimately, to drive a...

I am decorating one of the rooms in my house and want to add ethernet while I am at it. I want to bury the cable. It makes sense to me to borrow the "safe zone" thinking of electrical wiring, so I don't undo all of my good work later on by driving a picture hanging nail into my nicely concealed...

Hi, I've got an old Victorian tell-tale/servant's call box (the type where some presses a button in a room and a little flag waves while a bell rings to call a servant). Connecting it up to a 6V supply it works perfectly and I can happily call servants to any room from my workbench! So, I'd...

That makes more sense to me - thank you.

Many thanks. Ahh, so it's a heating issue? So, why doesn't that stuff all condense in the ducting too? The duct - if I understand it - is flexi so will not be fully smooth walled? Or is the point that it does condense in the duct but no-one really cares/it's not an issue if it does? I guess...

I don't want an ugly looking duct vent smiling at me when I'm in the garden, or filling my face with cooking fumes when I walk past it. That would be an outcome that is beyond stupid, given I already have a method for venting all of this stuff that was designed in to my house when it was built.

Hello, I live in an Edwardian house with an original 9 inch brick flue in the kitchen. This is as built above the original stove and has spent most of its 100+ years merrily transporting cooking fumes and smoke out of the kitchen, from the days of cast iron and coal onwards. It's in good nick...

Hi, I've got a LightWaveRF link to control my connect series switches and stuff. Partly because I want to extend my system, and partly because I want Google assistant integration, the time has come to consider upgrading to a Link+. Does anyone know if I can just import all of my device...

Correct, it's a mandatory inclusion in Bristol where a tree might be impacted. I am no expert, but I think the driver is a desire to increase the tree canopy in the city. So, I think the direction is "will a tree be harmed in granting this planning permission?" and they will then attach...

Hi Nakajo, They don't and I don't. Outside of the planning process, I can chop down the trees with impunity. But as the trees are currently there, they are saying we need a report to get through the planning process. I live in Bristol and local planning policy says that the overall tree canopy...

Hi, I am not sure if this is just a rant or a request for advice ..! I have a semi derelict 1920s garage in my garden that I would like to knock down and replace with a garden room and storage area. The details aren't important; it is unambiguously a scheme that needs planning permission...

Hi, I need to lay about 24 square metres of solid oak parquet to a concrete slab floor. The slab was laid about 10 years ago, with a DPM, and has wet underfloor heating installed. It's been 'pretty well' levelled with a water based self levelling compound (TileMaster Rapid Level 30) to no more...