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My neighbour is in charge of our house for a while. We keep getting alerts that the siren has been triggered. Turns out that he is setting the full set with the exit door open. He insists that his system, which is identical, allows this but that can't be right can it? It's the most modern version.

I'm intending to turn off the gas when we go away as there will be no need for hot water and it might make the house a bit cooler (and safer). The instructions that came with my Worcester Greenstar say that I can switch off the boiler and timer but to leave the mains connected. Just wondering why.

I had a fuse upgrade from UKPN but they insisted that the meter be upgraded before they would do it. If you have a 100A capable meter and CU plus 25mm tails you should be fine for a 100A fuse. The actual upgrade was free but they said before they came that I might have to settle for an 80A fuse...

You might not need to upgrade your fuse. My electrician says he does lots of EVs with 60A fuses. He fits load monitoring where necessary.

Taylor...I'm assuming the two cables at the socket mean it's on the upstairs ring, which is on a 32A breaker in a dual RCD CU. Or would a radial have two cables also?

I've seen 3KW fires that would be plugged into the mains for far longer than my immersion would be on. As I said there would only ever be a few hundred watts drawn on that circuit most of the time, so a maximum of 3.5KW when the immersion was on for maybe 30 minutes each day. No way would the...

Is this a DPU? Any useful diagrams/explanation to show how to wire it into the ring? Or is it time to call my electrician? Very grateful for your input by the way.

Yep. Got it now!

So where is the knock-out for the cable? Still can't see it.

Thanks. I can't work out where the cable to the immersion would emerge.

Here is a photo of the socket in my airing cupboard. Only the immersion heater is ever plugged in here. What could I fit in its place so that I could safely time the heater to come on and off? It is wired into the upstairs ring (before I moved in) but there are just a few radios and computers...

Have you told the extender to use the new router's password? These devices often have a web interface where you can change the extender's settings to use the new password. It definitely won't log onto the new router until you have tweaked the settings.

My immersion heater plugs into a socket in the airing cupboard. I know that this is wrong but it has been like that since we moved in 30+ years ago. We rarely if ever use it - maybe twice a year. I would like to have this on a timer for a few weeks while the CH system is being...

I was looking after my friend's house last week and opened the fridge to put in some veg that I had picked. It was totally dead - no lights or anything. I unplugged it and used another socket - same issue. I came home to Google for an hour or two and read that this can be a safety feature...

Just a footnote about smart meters. I do like mine and the range of web-based pages that EDF have to let you see your usage day by day. The main issue seems to be the monthly DD system that means you pay more in the summer to offset winter peaks. With EDF I've chosen to pay for what I've used...

Old Salt....my phone would love to do the same!!:giggle: When the edf chaps were installing the meter they did say that my road was well-known for communications issues. Is it true that some people have to send a reading to the supplier from a smart meter because it can't communicate?

My meter is in a cupboard at the back of the house and it communicates well with the remote display in the living room. My EDF hub (on their website) has got a reading for every single day since it was installed. But my road is in a dip and we can rarely get a good phone/data signal. Most of the...

I need a new strimmer. Mine has the plastic wire cutting system but I've been told that the bladed ones are much less hassle. Can anyone recommend a good one that they've used (that's still available to buy, obviously!) I don't need an edging tool attachment as I use my long clippers for that...

The bathroom lights were not the correct rating. I now have ones that don't have a replaceable bulb so the whole lot needs replacing eventually, but they said 5 to 10 years is a good expectation. The sockets had been left after the house was rewired (before we moved in). They had been connected...

Here in SE London the EICR threw up a few issues that needed to be rectified before my new CU went in. (The EICR and the CU installation were a fixed price for each job). The 'few issues' were quoted at £80 per hour plus the cost of materials (two blokes). They had to renew my bathroom...