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@ scarypants - two wires, one red one black. @ wingcoax - loose wires? Something blew whilst I was changing the lightbulb, do you think there may be something loose in the light case itself, or do you mean the general wiring in the house? Cheers.

The strip of four lights has been removed from the ceiling, with the live and neutral hanging loose, still no lights will come on downstairs. I've yet to open up the light casing to check connetors, will do so this evening. Always turn off power when removing a light fitting, but don't for...

sorry it's getting late...it's a strip of 4 spotlights, not recessed into celing. it's one of those s-shaped spot lights (if you know what I mean?) The lights were off at the switch, I didn't turn off at the fuse board, since I was only changing a light bulb...

those are the ones! Is it possible for these to blow? As for the work you mention, should I not be getting a qualified electrician in to do that, mind you I've tried! The lights were off. The flash/smoke came from my kitchen light (which was off at the time) as I was forcing the halogen bulb...

Yes as I was taking the bulb out of the spotlight, there was a blow and a puff of smoke from the light (all the lights were off at this point). So something has short circuited or blown the ring/circuit. Apologies if this isn't clear, but surely it can be one of ony two things that's...

the consumer unit has catridges, but there are also two re-wireable fuses. Those are both ok, and the catriges in the consumer unit were all "on". The circuit/ring is obviously broken somewhere, all the downstairs lights do not work. Could there be a something in the spotlight unit that's blown?

Was changing a hallogen light in my kitchen spotlight, and something "blew" as I tried twisting the bulb out. The downstairs lighting circuit no longer works. I assumed that a fuse had blown, but have checked and all are ok. Is it possible that a fuse within the consumer unit ban blow? Even...

Cheers Mike and the others too. Calling my plumber tomorrow to see if he can hopefully change it soon. Unless any of you chaps is available in the Beckenham area? Cheers.

ok, to be more specific it's an "Ideal Icos m3080" boiler. Anything else you might need to know? ch system is open vented. I've turned boiler off/on a few times all with the same results, i.e. it fires up, sounds ok for about 20-30 secs then the clunking noises start and it goes off. Clearly I...

Sorry, by "normal" i meant not combi. Just a plain boiler.

It's a normal boiler (not combi), which fires up ok, but then after 20-30 seconds there's a few "clunking" noises and it goes off. pilot light still on but the boiler not firing/staying "on" - if that makes sense? This happened back in october, but problem dissapeared until this morning...

Cheers for the info pal. I'll try that and let you know the outcome.

It's an open vented system. I take it the f/e tank = expansion tank? Ta.

that's it basically. Could it be that there's not enough water circulating in the system? I've bled all the upstairs rads and although there's no more air coming out of them the rads still don't heat up fully (only heat up half way, ish) and water doesn't come out - as if there's not enough...

Hello all, wondering if anyone can enlighten me with the above issue and any possible fixes are much appreciated! I have an oldish system i guess, boiler and expansion tank in loft. The rads downstairs are all boling hot, but none of the rads upstairs are gettting hot. We've bled them all, to no...