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My front pads are wearing a bit thin especially on the driver's side front wheel where there's a slight grinding sound coming from it when braking. I've not took the wheels off for a proper inspection but I know the pads definitely need replacing. I was told that they would need replacing...

i was gonna buy a pack of butt crimps today and get the job done; would that have been ok?

sheesh, i'm so glad i'm in a virgin cabled area

the t&e is 6mm² and the extra earth wire is also 6mm² and it makes sense now i think with the pdf you posted ColJack so thanks for that.

Thanks for yer quick reply ColJack :) Not sure what you mean? Off hand I'm not sure of size of either the t&e or the extra earth cable. I will check tomorrow if I remember. No it's an 1880s terraced house I'm glad I'm not alone then :D

I'm thinking of re-routing this shower cable away from the main bedroom in my house before I gut the room. At the moment it's just dangling in the corner of the room (previously it was inside a cupboard, which has now been removed). I'm not sure of thickness unfortunately but it's running from...

Thanks for all the replies guys. I shall crimp the cable together I think.

Hi there, Last year, I removed the bottom kitchen cupboards to allow for damp proof work to be carried out. Upon removing these cupboards I found that there is a 10mm² earth (green/yellow) cable that was wedged under one of the kitchen unit's feet. I can only assume this was connected to the...

anyone any ideas then? no? :(

Hi there, The main burner won't ignite in my Worcester 240 RSF despite the pilot light coming on. I've followed the fault finding section in the manual. This seems to be pointing to replacing the gas valve. I put the boiler on for central heating and did the following: The spark...

Hey people, I have had this car now for just over three years and already I've had to replace 3 wheel cylinders due to fluid leaking :? Could there be anything causing this as surely this is not normal? I do pretty much 24 miles a day from Blackburn to Preston and back and a little town...

Thanks for the replies guys :) I decided to go ahead and use the 10w-40 and it seems better at the moment. Jay

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew about oil viscosity. I need to do an oil change on my car and Dad's given me a load of oil that's spare from when he did an oil change on his car. I've checked the Haynes manual for my car and the spec oil for my engine needs to be 10w30 or 15w30. The...

hey cheers guys, i got the part on saturday, installed it sunday night and ranit for an hour so and no leaks. well chuffed. g4u - i was thinking about doing something like that when it was getting desperately cold but i've not moved into the house yet so wouldn't have been worth the...

hi guys, sorry to see there's so many of us having heating trouble at winter time hoping someone can put me in the right direction here i've come home today and found the c/h pressure at 0.5bar. immediately i've gone round all the rads and looked at ceilings to see where it must...

Cheers BGEngineer!! :D What do you think of Sunvic ones? A heating supplier has mentioned Sunvic TLXRFP :?: Thanks again BGE :)

right i'll try that then cheers :)

anyone any ideas then? no? :(

hi, i've got a bit of a dilemma and wondering if anyone has any advice or experience on this i need to get data off a really old PC that doesn't have usb ports. initially i wanted to plug in a usb hdd and transfer data off that way. i then remembered from my last job as a school ict...

hi guys, i have a problem with my boiler's built in timer. when i come back home from work from wherever i find that the heating isn't on then i check the boiler and the timer has stopped at random times :? so i revolve the timer dial until it's the right time again and all is well but...