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weirdly, the fluidmaster one has a strange way it connects, its not a bayonet because you can twist it either way to get it off, it spins 180 deg untill it reaches the point where it pops off, it goes back on with a sort of fudged twisting and pushing action, I had a fiddle at 5;01 in plumbase...

cant, not at work!!, yes I should have done, but i didn't!, i have seen them around a lot, there is a video on youtube with a million views of someone explaining how to fix the leaking washer on one (these 2 are getting stuck up), i thought my local merchant would know, he usually does!!

turn pump to max, close any bypass, try heating without hot water, water without heating, , turn off all radiators but one, do this all round the house, look for air release valves, tap auto ones (undo plastic cap, this shouldn't be tight),, bleed manual ones, bleed pump, bleed rads, check rad...

please help me identify this flush! I think that the fluidmaster pro820uk might be the same but black??? thanks..

No. !! Vic hasn't a clue !! Everyone else's info is correct. Best to remove fan , Yes I do know how old this thread is , but it's a valuble resource , and this thread gave me the correct answer , despite the best patronising guess work of Vic !!!

thanks PBC, you are in the US!! hence immune form this indoctrination that UK sparks are infected with!!!, I might trawl the internet for installation manuals to see if theres anywhere that says that a 6a rcbo shouldn't have 2 wires in it!!?? I can totally understand where this mis...

Yes, I do understand that he is doing us a favour by signing off our work, but i believe the BS form he is completing is , I believe, a test?, and doesn't have any boxes asking who did the work?? No one asked me who's going to be doing the work when i started, he has been round as a friend as...

because he is a good friend!!! , he initially wasn't keen on signing off my work, understandably , anyone professional does that with great caution.. So we asked another sparks, he would only do it if he replaced our 10 year old MK split board with a new metal full RCD job. for the best part of...

For the record , I am a heating engineer who works on electrics daily (legally , minor works !), My small ground floor extension that I built needs signing off, the one thing I can't do !! , and new lighting needs rcd , hence the new rcbo. 2 of the existing lights on ground floor have been...

Thanks. I think he agrees , as he put '2 circuits' in inverted commas !

There was 2 x 10mm2 earths because that's all I had when I wired the consumer unit 10 years ago , I actually think this is better , as if one terminal came loose , there would be back up , I didn't mind him changing this for the correct 16mm2 'by the book' earth , also , I didnt see him testing...

He can't engage in debate about it , it's either done his way , or not at all ! I am accused of telling him how to do his job by looking up answers on mums net !! I have seen on other forums sparks getting funny about 'doubling up' as bad practice , and hilariously the "2 circuits on one...

yes your right, and guess what, he doesn't like the idea of 1mm2 either!!!! even though my entire floor is less than 200w!!!! now split between 2 rcbo's at £35 each!!

we might compromise and put a JB adjacent to CU so that he doesn't have his '2 wires, 1 breaker= bad' fear!! will save me £35!! but its extra wiring and connections that are completely un necessary!! some people just don't fully understand why they are doing what they are doing, and can't think...

yes, this would surely be the right approach using the minimum wire , BUT there seems to be a culture of, 'doubling up cables into one breaker is bad' hence my sparky, who is essentially adding the 2 lights, buying a second RCBO!! i wouldn't mind, but he won't let me have the receipt so that i...

an explanination in words will do, it doesn't matter if these are roses or switches , i just need 1.5mm t and e to all 4 of them...

Can someone please show me the correct way to wire these lights, the most efficient way to pass the regulations, or the code of best practice way please.. and specify which if you can, (yes i believe there is a difference!!) what about if the 2 lights on the left were existing, and the job was...

the answer is to introduce an elastic element to the suspended light, i used a hairband, folded up and placed between the hook and the cord ,(by then i had no plastic bracket, i had destroyed it in a rage trying to get rid of the annoying crack that you get between the ceiling and dome, that...

great, useful info, thanks.. yes i had been told to leave movement joint, but am tempted to lock the whole lot down as it were,I have already bought the 18mm ply, one big advantage is that months go by between layers, so should be pretty stable and dry when final floor layed, unlike all non...

thanks i appreciate your help, thats about what i thought, a couple of mill!! when i said, half joist/half screed, i meant that half the room is one, half the other!! I have seen several people insist that to use a different installation method on each sub base is asking for trouble, hence...