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On one side of a cabinet is this valve, pictured, which looks like an isolation valve ( /elbow) and the other side is the pipe connecting to it, which then leads to the gas fire. There is gas supply to the fire so if this is the isolation valve, it is in the open position. I can't work out...

Thank you for the reply. 1. Yes, the on/off control knob is fully turned to the right. What you have said makes sense now. 2. I am not planning to remove the gas fire as I would need a gas safe engineer to do that, and it is good advice that these sort of valves need to be tightness...

I have an old FeF 16NV gas fire, which I would like to shut off. The picture shown shows two isolation points for the gas supply. I have looked at the supply pipe and it leads to the pipe labelled 2 in the picture. This then has a perdendicular pipe feeding the fire burner, labelled 1 in the...

It may be simple to you but not so to me, lol. I don't pay attention to the switch position normally. I just look at the light to determine which position I need to turn the switch so if it is on, I press the switch to turn it off and vice versa but I guess from what you and EFL are saying is...

Oh dear, now this is too confusing :LOL:

I did think that my one way switch only had one COMM and one L1 so there is no way to swap the L1 and L2 but I couldn't rely on my memory. I couldn't turn the switch round because there was no space inside but with the new switch that I have bought, there may be more space. Thanks.

Thanks for the info! I called them neutral because the guy in the youtube video called them neutral :LOL: Thank you for the correction in terminology. I have an existing light switch that is upside down and it is a bit annoying, so I now know how to change that :giggle:

Thank you, that is very clear instructions :giggle:(y)

Thank you. This is the existing downstairs switch connection. Does it matter which live / red wire go into COM1 and COM2 (as long as the two neutrals on the same cable goes into the L1 and L2 on the same triangle)? The new switches have COM1 and COM2, whereas the old switches shown just has...

Thank you. Thinking of them as top and bottom row was very confusing. However, now that you have advised to think of them as triangles make a lot more sense!

I have old light switches at the top and bottom of my stairs and I want to change them to new ones. I have found this is the wiring set up for them at the moment. Downstairs switch is labelled like this Top row connectors A (COM) - red B (1 WAY) - yellow B (2 WAY) - blue Bottom row...

I doubt that. It is not the customer responsibility to ensure the contractors are safe. It is the other way round, that the contractors are responsible for keeping the customers safe.

No I am not trolling. The roofers all walk on the roofs and I was very impressed that they could stand on a steep roof quite easily. They must have a technique to do it. Certainly the roofer I got recently and the bunch I also got to do my roof recently did not use a roof ladder and were all...

First quote is too low. Sounds like a cowboy outfit, who will no doubt increase the price once they have ripped your roof open. I have fallen victim to that so I would not recommend anyone that quotes unrealistic low prices. Second quote sounds more realistic.

After I posted that comment, I tried to recall all the roof work that I have seen around my estate and elsewhere and I can not remember seeing even one roofer using the roof ladder. In fact, in all my years, I have never seen a roofer using a roof ladder, ever! They must be all sheisters down...

whether it is good practice or not, a lot of the roofers seem to be doing it! that was just one example, I am sure there are lots of tutorials out there on how to walk on a roof safely. personally, I would prefer to crawl on a roof rather than walk on it as you are lower down and your weight...

I have had about 3 roofers round over the years and not one of them has used a roof ladder. they just walk on the roof.

here is even wiki showing you how to wallk on roof tiles! https://www.wikihow.com/Walk-on-a-Tile-Roof

but all the roofers do so. the scaffold are only ever erected to the first set of tiles, then the roofers just walk on the roof! or they get their ladder to the roof, then start walking on the tiles or stand on the tiles.

I know a bit about DIY as I have own rental properties so I needed to learn a lot about all the repairs. I find it helps a lot if you know what needs to be done even if you can't or don't want to do it as it puts it into perspective when you get quotes and you can specify what you want as there...