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Hi all First of all I know what Lamona can be like but I had no choice in the matter. My cooker hood, LAM2403, hasn't been working for a few months. The light does work which obviously proves the fused spur is fine, but the motor is silent and dead. Before anyone suggests a replacement cooker...

Hi All Can anyone recommend a brand of 10A bathroom light pull switches? Personally I'd prefer one where the terminals are in the part you affix to the ceiling and then the surface screws just screw on a cover, bit less fiddly but feel free to tell me if they tend to be less reliable! My...

Hi So my Wooshitter (as some of you call it) boiler is playing up again. Sat here earlier and heard a banging noise, went down to the cellar and noticed the boiler display said U9, which I know means it was kettling at 109C. We had an issue with this before where the heating and hot water...

Mine WAS a space saver compared to the much bigger but otherwise identical version that heats part of the youth centre where I work

We moved into this house in 1990 when I was a nipper, it had a GloWorm spacesaver on a pumped CH/gravity DHW system. In 1998 we had issues with the pilot light going out on a regular basis so my parents had it looked at, engineers fixed the fault but said it wouldn't live another year......It...

I think it gets tested with every service and then when we had a new hob and gas fire installed too, I never got informed of a lack of pressure I'm aware people will have differing opinions of BG engineers but the last time I brought this issue up with them they just turned down the valve...

Hmmm...Well the supply pipe is 15mm all the way. The gas supply is definitely 22mm as it was changed when the boiler was installed. The water pressure IS pretty high though. Like I said this only happens in winter when the incoming water supply is very cold, so unlikely to be the diverter valve...

Hi all I have a Mira Excel thermostatic mixer shower running from a Worcester 32cdi combi (I think). Problem is at this time of year the mains water is so cold that the boiler can't keep up with the flow rate, so the shower on full flow is barely warm. We have been running the shower with the...

I've established that brown/grey/black are the colours used to identify the 3 phrases now, as they are the colours used in 3 core cabling. OK Then. For anyone interested about my 2g-2way light switch change, my lighting has been wired with looped singles, so the line is looped at the switch and...

I've been admiring your posts a while BAS, you strike me as the electrician's equivalent of the Grammar Nazi.... I am well aware of what to do with CPCs, I did replace a plastic light switch with a metal dimmer....moved the existing CPC to the terminal on the switch, sleeved a piece of 1mm and...

Thanks everyone. I am intrigued by this initiative to educate people that a phase conductor is 'line' but can't be called 'live' because neutral is a 'live' conductor also. Yes neutral carries current, I am aware of that, but isn't this measure akin to sleeving every conductor in a light switch...

Cheers I know Neutral is now blue; my house was rewired in 2014 and one of few things they left and reconnected was an outside PIR light I'd installed (must have done something right). I was under the impression that all the live wiring in my house would now be brown/blue and any red/black...

Hi all I'd just like to know out of interest, in these days after harmonised core colours in cables e.g. where a 3 core & cpc cable changed from red/blue/yellow to brown/grey/black, how does the DNO identify the 3 phrases? I believe they were originally red/blue/yellow too, are they now known...

Thanks. Didn't even want a fluorescent, it was the electrician's idea. It throws out considerably less light than the 100w incandescent bulb that wash cellar previously had.

Gotcha So I need a new starter??

Hi All So the fluorescent light in my cellar probably needs a new starter. Started making banging noises and flashing orange as it started up a few days ago. Then tonight I turned it on and as I had been expected, was left with just a glow at either end. This light was installed by a...

It was supplied and installed by CityGlass Bradford, but they were subtracted by a company who were project managing renovation works on my house, it's a long story. Since the doors looks to have been made by Yale, I looked on their website and it seems they all come with a 5 year warranty for...

Hi everyone, hope there's someone on here who knows the gearbox of a Yale composite door inside out! Mine were fitted 2 and a half years ago and for the past year or so, one of them has been a b****r to lock. Presumably due to misalignment the key would be very stiff to turn and sometimes...

Hi people Since I've been using a room in my house with exposed central heating pipes going up from floor to ceiling in one corner, I've noticed there is always a trickling noise within them whenever someone turns off the tap in the kitchen or when the toilet upstairs stops filling, as if water...

a) It's a good shower b) The new bathroom (among other things) was paid for by a Home Appreciation Loan, therefore nothing fancy, no allowance for a new shower c) Technically it was upside-down the way it was before, to allow for falling supply pipes. It's now the other way up to allow for...