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Hi, I've a Amstrad sky box which has been working fine until a recent storm. Its now giving a message saying no signal is being received. I went into the setup menu and the signal strength fluctuated quite a bit. I couldnt get it stable despite moving the LNB around. So I bought a new LNB...

Hi All. Checked the pipes again and none were blocked so bit the bullet and paid out for a new pump. Thought it was worth spending out a tenth of the price of a new machine to find out! Anyway, its working now so thanks to all for your help. I still have to force it to spin by selecting on...

Hi All, Had a quick look around on here for an answer but the issue I'm having is a little different. My washing machine was not moving on to the spin cycle so, the machine would empty the water, but the washing would be extremely wet. I could manually spin the machine and all would be ok...

Time to revisit this again I'm afraid :x Our cooker is still not working. To be on the safe side, I have had installed in the CU a separate RCD for the cooker. It still trips so I've ruled out a combination of earth leakages from around the house. I've taken the back of the cooker and...

thanks for the answers guys. I had hoped one of the elements was faulty but this doesnt seem to be the case. I've turned of every other circuit breaker and left just the oven one on and, you've guessed it, oven gets up to temperature. No tripping. (I can almost smell cake!) So it appears that...

Hi All. I've had a look thru the forum for similar issues to the one I'm having. My cooker trips the RCD on the consumer unit after a very short time of being on. I've taken both the grill element and oven element out and I'm going to replace both or either. I've connected a meter to the...

Hi, I have two smoke alarms, landing and hall, linked by a three core cable. I've buzzed the cable out and all is fine, but the two alarms dont sync, ie, if 1 goes off, the other doesnt. Any thoughts as to why? Should I just replace them? cheers

Oh, good to know. Sorry, but that is attitude and what gives you guys a bad name. I didnt choose the boiler, it was installed before I bought the flat. I have serviced it though, which he asked, and dine all I can to keep is working. The last conversation I had with him was "I'm on my way there...

On Tuesday, my boiler stopped working. Iwas given a name of a plumber, who I rang at around 2:00pm on Monday. He said, " Well, I dont know if I can get round there tomorrow, but I can probably do Wednesday. I'll call you tomorrow to let you know". Of course, I called him on Wednesday and he said...

What, no one?

Hi Gang I've been let down my a plumber who said he would come and fix my boiler on Tuesday. Its now thursday and I'm cold. Its a SIME FRIENDLY FORMAT 80e and I think what has happend is the pressure got low and the boiler has turned itself off because of this. I've tiopped the water in the...

In my limited experience of tiling floors, if you dont seal the floor first, then on a surface like chipboard the tiles are definitely going to start working their way loose. I've tiled onto chipboard before too, having first sealed the surface with PVA glue. I've done this twice without an...

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Evening All. I've just moved the power circuits from an old Wylex board to a new consumer unit. We've had loft rooms created and the light circuit upstairs consists of low voltage spots in four rooms. The bathroom has four spots, the main bedroom eleven, the landing two and the second bedroom...

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From my rudimentary understandings of the UK telephone system, we use, possibly used, three wires because the third wire is connected the the bell capacitor which makes, made a BT phone ring. If the thrid wire wasnt connected and you had a old BT rented phone on the line, it wouldnt ring. It...

I'm doing much the same thing. On the Wiki on here, it mentions earthing the SWA cable with a gland at either end. How does this wrok? I'm going to have a weatherproof termnal box on the wall of the house from which the SWA cable will drop down the wall into the ground and covered by slab. Do I...

I think what they were saying was that by asking them to get a test done, all they would do is ask an electrician to do the work. They would be nofitied by an electrican who does the work so there s no need to involve them before they receive the report. Sort of makes sense. Also, when you...

Thats right, They mention £40 to the council and a charge to the electrician, the £40 was for them to assign an electrician but, and I quote, I could just get an electrician to certify and not bother telling them. I guess because they get notified by the electrician. My worry is that id I had...

much scratching of head....... thanks.....I think!