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333rocky333: seen those, but they're generally too small. That ones only 140mm for instance. winston1: I did contemplate changing the bulbs to LED, but decent brand PAR38 LED bulbs arent cheap, and wouldnt get around the horrible looking fittings. Painting them might work, but could also go...

We've just bought a house which has a sloping ceiling in the Lounge. Its arranged as sort of a "Lean-to" off the side of the main building and the internal ceiling follows the external roofline, so it slopes from 2.2m or so, upto 3-3.5m high at the peak. In that ceiling they've installed five...

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We've recently moved into a new house, which had a new roof fitted at the end of December. I happened to stick my head up the attic at the weekend and discovered a fair amount of water droplets all over the underside of the OSB sarking. Its concentrated around either end of the roof directly...

Just to follow up, they swapped out the pump on Thursday. So far so good. No more oddness.

So on this point. It stopped again tonight and I couldn't get it to restart. I noticed something that probably does indeed point towards the pump. When you switch the boiler off and back on at the button on the front panel, the pump fires up for a second or two. When it has faulted, each power...

Very roughly, Electricity costs about 15p a kwh, and gas costs about 3p a kwh. Gas ofcourse isnt 100% efficient, especially so with an older unit, but even with that taken into account, you'll spend roughly three times as much on electricity to get the same heat output as your existing boiler...

Yeah, "pump" was my initial thought, given the symptoms of rapid overheat and kettling, but it threw me when it then runs the heating perfectly. And intermittent pump fault it could well be, but then, why does it only seem to fault in hot water mode?

Yeah, so why send him out when you call the service helpline. I'm always this unlucky with trades. No matter how much research i do, i always end up with someone who doesnt do things properly. I've stuck a camera on it so i can actually record the panel so i can see what exactly it does before...

Hmm, well the previous owner accepted my request and called WB, who sent out a local WB approved installer this morning. He looked it over, suggested it might be a blocked secondary HEX, and put some chemical flush into the system. He also said he was going to replace some temperature sensors...

Yeah that was my feeling. The pressure was still well within the green range, so that was just a fob off. And the Temp control should be able to be set at any position without the boiler getting in a huff, and its not even as though its maxed out. It behaved itself yesterday, but this morning...

We've just moved into a new place, and within hours have had issues with the heating. The system seemed to be working initially, producing heat and hot water as you might expect. At some point in the afternoon the wife wanted to fill the fishtank, which requires warm water. Ran the tap at the...

we were talking about battery cost. the Powerwall is some batteries, and some power electronics (inverter etc), for £5.4k. So already significantly less than the 1k per kwh your guy quoted. Furthermore, they are typically sold into solar installations, where the savings are much larger, as...

Battery costs are falling all the time. Tesla Powerwall is 14kwh and costs about 5 grand. Other options than batteries are being investigated for large scale grid storage. Compressed gasses and various heat pump ideas. I guess its about maximising efficiency and density but it also needs to...

Green Energy UK has already introduced a 3 tier ToD tariff called Tide. Its in its infancy, but they charge 25p between 4pm and 7pm, 12p for the rest of the day, and 5p at night during the E7 hours. When i put that tariff into a calculator against my usage, it worked out about the same as the...

take the lights indoors and try them one by one on a known working socket.

Well back on topic. Had them out again today, and another failure. They apparently only have 5 terminal meters, and he claimed he was unable to fit the 5 terminal meter with nothing in the fifth terminal. He said he'd never seen a 4 terminal 2 rate meter. :rolleyes: Oh well, i will change...

Eric: Most EV's have a timer built into the cars controls, so you plug it in at 6pm, and tell it not to start charging until 1am or whenever. Mine doesnt (well, it does, but it doesnt work :p), but instead, i have a home automation device connected to the charger which switches it on at the...

So what happens when you drive to france/ireland (or anywhere else)? The special UK modified protocol then doesnt work, your car wont charge and your stuck. Or, someone just invents a widget that connects between the car and outlet which tells the car what it wants to hear, and it'll start...

They already do negotiate with the charger, as they need to check the charger and cables maximum current capacity, and perform a handshake before the charger will close the main contactor. But its a fairly simple protocol thats standardised worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62196...