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i have never actually replaced the taps myself but i like DIY and so i have seen youtube videos on how to do it and it seems simple enough to do, except the fiddling around in a very tight space and trying to get the blooming old taps off can be difficult. however, i had never anticipated that...

lol. yes indeed. i do know how to replace the taps myself but this is why i have chosen to pay someone else to do it :)

yeah. i think you are right.

thanks I will do as this seems to be the only explanation of why he thinks the one he suggests would be a quick fit and not the one I want to buy.

this answer makes more sense to me. i have the same taps now as the one he suggests. this would make me think that he is not replacing the whole tap but just the front bit as you say. this would look very silly surely as the back bit is very old! there is already a shower holder on the wall...

i see. i understood you remove the taps from the connectors under the bath then you connect the new taps to these connectors. i didn't think the connections under the bath would be any different for the two sets but it would appear that I am wrong. you absolutely sure about this?

I do know a little bit about plumbing so I think my plumber is telling me total rubbish but I would like to check that I am not missing something. He fixed a bathroom tap for me where the tap handle on the cold water was just going round and round so the water could not be turned off. He glued...

i thought the RCD protection is at the consumer unit? so why would the consumer unit be made without RCD protection for some of the fuses? sorry, i know a little bit about electrics but very little.

i think the green storage heating MCB is the day time immersion heater, which is protected by the RCD. the 40amp MCB is not protected by the RCD because it is labelled in red and only the green labelled MCB are protected by the RCD? why would two of the MCB not have RCD protection?

here is the circuit details for the consumer unit that i was given. i think the night immersion heater is connected to the 40A MCB and the day time one is connected to an incorrectly labelled Storage Heating 1.

so the dynorod plumber came back and found that one of the immersion heater that he had installed were damaged so he put in two new immersion heaters again. the hot water is working fine now but when the night immersion heater becomes live at night, the main RCD trips again. the night time...

i put it down to those two red switches were for the night supply, the storage heaters and the immersion heater and that the 40 amp was there so he used it.

no, different guy as the other guy lives too far away for this job, which he would consider too small. the new electrician said the consumer unit was not put in well but he didn't say the wiring in there was the cause of the short circuit. he claims it is the elements themselves that are short...

yes. that seems to say only the 40amp is the immersion heater, but the wall switch labelled water heater only lights up when the 16 amp fuse switch labelled storage heater is turned on.

only when it was installed earier this year. at that time only the day immersion heater was working so I wonder if having both immersion heaters connected is causing the trip as the night immersion may be working as well even though it is only meant to come on at night.

yes.

the 40amp is the night immersion heater and the 16amp, labelled 1 storage heating in green is the day immersion heater. the electrician labelled it wrong. they don't trip, only the main RCD trips.

i mean there are cables to the wall switches in the pvc trunking.

yes the two switches are next to each other on the wall. the feed to the two switches on the wall are run inside a pvc trunking here is an old photo of it

yes, you could only test the night time one at night as there is no power to it. the day time one (24 hour) trips at any time it is switched on as the power to it is constant. power supply to the flat between 11.30pm and 6.30am is on the lower rate cost as far as i understand. before dynorod...