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Hi, just want peoples thoughts on this, I have a vented system, quite old, I have to put the hot water and heating on to get the radiators hot but I can just have the hot water on with no radiators getting hot. So the problem I have is my F&E tank overfills, it’s not ball valve letting by. It...

Hi, got a flat roof which had polystyrene tiles which I’ve just removed, they were attached to plaster board, I’ve noticed there’s no insulation above plaster board, I’m thinking of removing the plaster board and putting rock wool or some sort of insulation between the joists then putting up new...

Hi, got a fused unswitched spur which I want to replace for a newer better looking but it has 4x 2.5mm wires out the load side, I can’t really seem to find any spurred fuse that accepts more than 3, has anyone encounter this problem before?

Hi, My lighting circuit had cpc added at a later date but none of the switch’s have cpc going to them just the lights Wanting to add cpc and Just wanted to check, the light switch earth will just connect to the light cpc?

Hi, Got solar hot water tubes on the roof, don’t know much about them but they don’t seem to operate correctly, when there turned on the raydan controller temp display is very sporadic and jumps around and occasionally the relay which controls the circulation pump is constantly clicking on and...

Hi, Got a 20A mcb radial circuit which used to power a stair lift, I’m going to get rid of that, extend the cable and have one double socket, it’ll power just a lamp and general low current things, should I downgrade it to a 16A or is 20A fine? it’ll be clipped to wall and go through a wall at...

Recently brought a new house, fitted new ceiling lights and they had an earth connections (possibly fitted after the original wiring was?) I’ve just fitted metal light switch’s however there’s no earth connection there, just 2 core wire (definitely nothing else up the insulation) they should be...

Renault Clio 1.2 petrol mk3 2008 Tried to start the other day, but nothing, ignition all works, no clicking tho Checked battery and obvious things and all fine, managed to bump start and determined it was the starter motor Swapped it today but still doing the exact same thing! Relays seem...

Hi, Just moved into a house built in the 60s, turned off the external stopcock, pressed the cold water tank ball cock valve and nothing came out, went downstairs and tried downstairs kitchen tap and it trickled to a stop, tried the bathroom tap and it worked fine (comes from water tank I...