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Hi all, Hope you can help, I'm trying to fit three new two way switches but I'm struggling a bit as they look completely different at the back and the labelling isn't helping me. I think I may have a rough idea but I don't want to blow my house up so wanted to run it past you kind folks...

Crikey it's all gone off on here :) Thought I'd just respond to the above points. I should have mentioned that buying a new cylinder has indeed fixed the problem I was having, you might note that mine had a securing lug that had snapped off, this meant the cylinder was loose in the socket...

Thanks for the replies folks :)

Hi folks, I'm looking for a high quality screwdriver handle for the hundreds of screw heads that I've aquired over the years. I know they're not the best quality but with the number of them I have there must be a head that would be a perfect fit for practically any screw known to man...

Most excellent thank you both :) I'm not sure of the difference between them so I went for the cheapest! Managed to find the 550073 for only £10.80 with free shipping, hope it works....

Thank you for your reply, that's a lot of company name changes in three years, the one I have is marked up 2008 when it was still Macdee! I may drop one of the companies a line, like I said the one in B&Q did look to have a very similar quick replace mechanism, but swapping out the base would...

Mystery solved I think, but it has now revealed a new problem! When I came to take off the Macdee AFV40100 flush valve (which I thought separated at the top not the bottom, took me a while to figure that out!) I noticed some sealant had been applied near the bottom of the valve casing...

seco services - many thanks for that, it's very much appreciated! maxsys - thank you for the clarification, as I said my plumbing skills are that of an 8 year old :) I will let everyone know how I go on, may be a useful guide for anyone with a similar problem in the future.

OK folks, firstly let me explain that I have zero knowledge of this stuff so you may have to explain it to me like I'm 8 :D Maxsys - that's actually the kind of level I'm at actually! When you say the big white bit is that the top of the tube closest to me that the blue tube goes in to...

Hi folks, I hope you can help. I've been noticing a constant trickle of water running down the back of the toilet bowl for the last month or so, it comes down in four separate places along the back. I've enclosed shots of the cistern and the "plunger" part attached to the lid via the...

This looks just the job; http://www.delightful-uk.com/photocell-unit--switch-on-70-lux-ss4-dusk-to-dawn-sensor-2655-p.asp Seems that they are pre calibrated so cannot be adjusted, given that my lamp comes on in bright sunshine I'm guessing the unit itself is goosed, would this be a direct...

Yep it’s pretty much exactly how you describe it, I can see the cell under the glass on closer inspection. I had a look last night and unscrewed the whole thing from the wall, it has three wires (live, neutral, earth I think but there's next to no play in the wire to get a better look) going...

I've got a wall lamp outside my front door and would like it to come on when it goes dark outside. Now it would seem that at some point there has been a sensor (looks like a glass dome with electronics inside) that did the task screwed to the side of the porch and appears connected to the...

Thanks for the quick answers folks, that's brilliant. I've left it on the one furthest to the right, the manual was quite misleading as it only talks about the live cable rather than it working fine on both live and neutral, not sure why they chose to do that but all's well now :)

I've just received one of these new fangled energy monitors which is actually quite cool. My query is which cable the clamp should attach to, I have an old style meter (dial) with two thick grey cables coming form underneath, one towards the middle and one to the right (to the left is another...