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>chivers67..posted my first reply before I saw your post. Yes food for thought..thanks. re your questions ..I had always assumed it was SWA. I believe the original job was done by a qualified electrician but I'd guess it was done at least 35 years ago, maybe more. I have no way of knowing for...

>TTC..thanks..yes you're quite right about the photo..apologies! Here is one of the rectangular MEM "switch" taken earlier this Summer when I was working on the pump...the power was off at the meter and the first (LH) switch!! I had disconnected the blue N wire. As you may be able to discern...

I have attached photo of electrical setup..it has been like this with no problems for many many years. The (black) feed coming in to the pump house to the LH switch which can be seen is direct from the meter..a separate meter to the main house. The meter was renewed 2 years ago. The...

it was just to make it harder for any vermin to get in that's all..but I am not connected to mains sewerage just a septic tank..and as I said before I think any self-respecting rat would be able to swim through the liitle bit of "water" in the U-bend of the "trap". So I may just leave it.

thanks for that HJ. We think that the house, which is maybe a hundred and fifty years old, was "renovated" around WW2 time and the drains were put in then. We cut some big pines down which the tree surgeon reckoned were planted around 1945 too which were probably intended as a windbreak. Yes I...

thanks again John.. and Ian. My fault really for not inspecting/repairing the front wall of the inspection chamber when a large digger went over it a few years ago!..I paid the price today..but all good now. Thank God for Toolstation rubber gauntlets.. though I'd have like the ones vets use for...

Thanks very much John..interesting. Having had a quick look on the net I see why the plug is needed in the rodding hole! I will try to source a suitable "plug"..as far I can remember it has never had one. Re your question about the outlet from tank to the soak away..no, not as far as I am...

This is an old house and not sure when drains were laid...not in the last 30 odd years we have been here anyway. Drain was not flowing but I rodded it through the top hole & on 7th 1 metre rod it cleared to the septic tank and the pipe flows fine now. The salt-glazed clay fitting on the outlet...

Primatic cylinder..has worked almost flawlessly for almost 30 years (for a rather flawed idea imo). Old stone cottage/long-house ..single storey with long pipe runs in loft to bathroom at other end of cottage from the cylinder. Plastic cold water storage tank raised on platform (before my...

left things exactly the same as Sunday night. Monday night also comes & goes..no trips..cracked it I think. Same procedure before going to bed on Tuesday evening. Wednesday 3-5 am (typically when trips happen) has gone..its 7.31 now..& no trips.. ...then it tripped! Reset all as...

>JohnW/anyone interested.. crazily enough..as I said yesterday I removed the very last surge-protector "board" in the house..(in a different mcb zone to the area I thought/think is the problem area) after JohnW's post. It is one of those Aldi jobs which plugs into 1 side of a double socket...

Hi JohnW2..it's one of those convert a socket to 4 jobs that plugs direct into the socket with no cable as such. It's in the kitchen & usually has a lamp, laptop, and phone chargers in it...no real reason it's not been removed ..as you suggest daft not to really.. so I'll remove it tonight and...

thanks flameport..I will probably do that. Just wonder why (if it is the PC like I think)it doesn't do it in the day? It's been on all day today since 10am..no problem. Why the wee small hours I wonder?

Legrand CU with one RCD (80Amp – 30mA) covering 3 groups of sockets , plus garage and shower room so 5 mcbs in total . Tripping of RCD is sort of random ..in that most commonly occurring once between 4 a.m and 6 a.m. ..sometimes twice (i.e. again typically an hour or so after a manual reset..but...

many thanks..re the retro fitting of new plastic parts yes now I see that.

>Madrab..thanks again.. at the risk of labouring the point ..what do you reckon the 2 blanked-off fittings are for..i.e. the ones directly under each of the sink bowls facing outward into the room? I would have thought a Franke spigot (if one were lying around somewhere or you could source...

thanks both.. >Nige good to know..yes looks like what I can see when I google Franke..I had no clue before...so cheers for that. >thanks for the advice..re the trap I don't know..none of the photos I have show what happens under the shelf..so I'll ask! As you say may be better to start...

not my house..trying to help someone out..new house (to them)..refurbed kitchen..space for washing machine & cold feed /valve is present (& hot water but not needed). But no-one has ever used the space for a washing-machine or dishwasher (estate agent) & there is no waste outlet of any sort...

thanks Westie..interesting..yep I see >All ..have learned a little bit from you guys today. thank the Lord for diynot.com I say.. it's where I turn to in times of trouble (apologies to Paul McCartney & Mother Mary ).. to all behind the scenes who make it happen..and of course to all...

thanks to all..esp. John