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Hi Plumbers I have a Mira Excel thermostatic mixer shower; it was first installed in 2008, then removed last year for a new bathroom installation, then put back in. The issue is it was originally installed with a falling supply as British Gas decided the best idea would be to surface mount...

I'd imagine the intermediate one would be the 1-gang one; I've never heard of an intermediate switch that isn't all alone on its faceplate. Rather surprised nobody brought that up already....

Just to beat the experts to it :) An RCD detects ANY current leaking to Earth and even if you turn off the MCB of the circuit you're working on, thus disconnecting the live feed, the neutral carries a small charge from the backfeed of other active circuits. This will trip the RCD should the...

Hmm thanks. Poor quality fitting and the first supposedly poor quality lamp were courtesy of the electricians whom as pertaining to the HAL, were not chosen by us. Second lamp was purchased by myself at Wilko's and whilst naturally one would expect it to be less reliable, it lasted longer...

Hi peoples In February this year my house got rewired and as it was part of a Home Appreciation Loan programme of works, we had little to no choice in fittings. One of the fittings we are now less than happy with is the bathroom light, which takes a 4-pin 2D bulb - odd race car steering...

Understood, as I said to RF I agree it makes sense for a lot of applications, it just potentially proves problematic for us poor buggers trying to change the accessories we've been blessed with. (Crabtree, not a fan, but purely based on aesthetics....) I'm in Yorkshire too by the way :D

I'll eventually try it with another switch I guess. I'll admit I only gave up trying when the terminal screw came clean out and disappeared into the void of the surrounding plastic.... :x You have a point re. the singles. I have read many a thread on here regarding new light fittings and...

Nope, are they smaller than a single 5A terminal strip? I just about got 4 cores in one of those, but because of the diagonal design of the dimmer body, I couldn't bend it, and the wires connected to it, out of the way sufficiently to be able to screw the switch into place. In retrospect, either...

Hi Folks Can anyone recommend a brand that manufactures light switches, particularly dimmers, with large terminals? Not fussed if it's only white that's available. Basically the gang who rewired my house (Feb 2014) did the lighting primarily in single core & CPC cabling with the permanent...

BG Engineer suggested the bubbles I heard were due to the system 'cooling down' AFTER dhw demand....However I am sure these air bubbles occur during the tap being run, not after. Hence a leak in the hx (which I assume is heat exchanger) was my first thought. So I have a leak somewhere either...

What Jamespl said (before edit) is exactly what the BG engineer said regarding the leak, residue from the boiler's internal air escape. Now I wonder why he edited?? Any road I will accept that the likelihood is I have a leak somewhere on the system, the only thing is it is nowhere...

What's your theory then? Personally I don't think the system was leaking prior to this boiler leak. Normally as the air accumulates in the towel warmer, the pressure gauge goes up, so the air is compressing the water rather than replacing it, right? It's only on this occasion the gauge was...

Thanks for your reply. That's both interesting and worrying. BG powerflushed the system and would have, I would assume, been aware of any corrosion when the boiler was replaced. Also I have made a number of engineers aware of the regular need to bleed air off and top it up; none of them...

Hi people We have a Worcester Combi installed by British Gas, which they have called a British Gas 532/i. It has always been under their own central heating care scheme (you'd think we were made of money!), however I am after some advice from independent sources. There are 2 problems with...