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I'm wondering if his boiler is in an external boiler house? If anywhere like mine was it could be pumping CO merrily - environmentally unfriendly, but not really a H&S problem.

paddy1, Where is your boiler? How old is it? One pump is normal. Do you have any motorised valves (chunky things on the pipes with wires connected to them)? Depending on how old it is, your system may do hot water only by convection - with the pump turned off so no water goes to the...

Good point - surely they should have had the wit to leave access? On the other hand, if it was my job I'd just have to look at the drawings and measure out where the cable was placed. Smug git, me.

Came home tonight. No CH, no HW. My fault of course. Went out to have a look. Green light on the front OK. Pump pumping OK. Both CH and HW valves open. No boilering. Puzzled. Normally when it dies there's a red light or no light. Turned it all off for about 5 minutes, on again, green...

Maybe there ought to be: Rule 21: There is no rule 21

Waterproof can be a major pain-reliever. Although you might not imagine how water could get through the grout etc enough to do any damage - it can happen. My HW cylinder decided to leak one night - shower right through to the kitchen below - it was a major flood! The water got onto the marine...

Agree.

Students should use all resources available, wisely.

:D But you need to be an addict to get the joke. :D

Watching with interest. All wires red - photo ain't gonna help much.

Do more JFs die as a result? Genuine question - I have wondered this myself when plugging into Italian sockets.

3x10W will just about light up the top of your garage door.

1) I still use the Yankee my Mum found on the roadside 40 years ago. She tried to find the owner off whose bike it had fallen, but no-one claimed it. 2) I bought a B&Q shredder last year. It died after 5 minutes use. When I took it back the girl gave me a refund without qestion - said I...

This is really top class advice, and I really appreciate what everyone is saying - printed for future reference. Trouble is, I know what the words mean, and maybe if I had a lot of walls to practice on I could develop the skill. This is as clear to me as what the surgeon told me about how...

Unless you can get in readily from the room below - and I can't imagine why that might be a real possibilty unless the ceiling below has now fallen down - the choice is either to go in yourself, removing tiles etc, or if you are squeamish about wrecking your work, you get someone else to do it...

Any objections to linking each set of three in parallel back to their switch? That sounds like a minimum-cable solution. Edited to say that of course cable and switching will need to be up to the load.

You are very encouraging - maybe next time?

YES :D :D Not quite as neat as the hinges I saw on the expensive table, but fit for purpose. Thanks - they'll be great.

Well my solution was a tad wimpish to confess here - I got a lot of three-light fittings half-price in a sale. It's worth looking at kitchen showrooms to get a feel for what the various options actually look like.

I put 12V halogens under my kitchen cupboards - spaced at about 30cm. I think if you space them at 1m you will get an interesting spotlit/dark effect. Also, at that height above the worktop, 20W is VERY BRIGHT. Having lived with them a couple of years, mine are now reverting to 10W as they...