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We have a clock in our gym which is always an hour slow. I've tried setting it to the correct time and it seems to work first off, but I'll come into the gym later that day and find it is back to an hour slow again. I was hoping that when the clocks went back last weekend it might even...

Hi all, Sodding housekeeping have been too rough with our communal dishwasher and have somehow managed to push the buttons through the fascia and now that the programme knob has come off, the whole control unit has dropped inside the door rendering the dishwasher useless. My boss has...

Ok this has taken a few wiring diagrams but I think I'm starting to get the picture. Basically you have a 2&E from the CU to the first rose and from the first rose to your first switch (pictured). You have 3&E from switch 1 to switch 2 (not pictured but described and wired correctly), and...

That's what I used and the live out was loose and had come out of the terminal so job done. Could do with a rewire tbh, but that's not my problem. It was a locknut which held the faceplate on and the inner casing had two screws in either side which let me in. There was a special tool to...

I had a similar problem when I refurbed by cloakroom. The original toilet had a chain pull cistern up a height and the toilet pan was in a really daft position about 1.5" forward off the wall. I had to change the layout of the cloakroom and buy a suite based on units and a concealed cistern...

Hi all, The door to one of the rooms in my hotel has started slamming recently even though it has an overhead door closer on it. The door closes most of the way nice and slowly, but for the last couple of inches it just appears to give up and let the door go, and being so heavy it just...

I'll be back down there this afternoon for a proper gander, but I've got a funny feeling the toggle had a small ring around the base of it with two small opposing holes in each side. I'm just concerned this is a locknut type ring which screws onto a threaded outlet. I don't know. I'll have a...

Erm, I could be wrong, but in the first picture it looks as if you have a neutral (black) wire terminated with the switched live (yellow). I just read your second message again and you confirm the above. The black is most likely connected with another neutral somewhere, so when you're...

Brilliant, thanks for your help guys. I'll have another look on Monday when I'm next there. It had no logos on it so can't tell you what brand it is and I can't find anything similar in the E&E catalogue so not sure. If it has the locknut, I'm guessing that infers there will be a "special...

How do you remove them? I've never worked with them before and I need to take one off to check the supply to it in a stately house that I have to look after as part of my job as the chandelier has never worked apparently (as long as the current staff have been there anyway). I'm guessing...

Yeah the cable was diagonal from the switch for whatever reason, and it will get sorted, I just need to try and minimise the chance of it happening again.

I have a bog standard Stanley stud detector which is supposed to pick up metal and AC/DC cables in the wall, however I found to my sincere displeasure that it doesn't do what it says on the tin and I ended up drilling through a light switch cable which unlike the majority of other cables in the...

Yes mate been there done that. Wouldn't last 5mins hence I resorted to loosening off and greasing. Haven't tried gravity hinges though. Just assumed they wouldn't be available in a heavy enough duty.

Hi all, I'm getting it in the neck about a two way door we have from our kitchen to the dining area. It squeaks like mad when opened and at quiet dining times it starts to get get on the nerves of customers and staff so it needs to be sorted but I've run out of ideas for it. I've tried...

Just to let you all know we have a fully qualified electrician who calls by on an almost daily basis who I've known for a long time (he has said that he's happy for me to do jobs that I know I'm capable of doing and he'll check them over) who was unavailable at the time who has checked it over...

Nice one chaps. Just what I was thinking of. Think I'll go with the part from BES, just need to find the associated fitting. Thanks again.

Just to reinforce the previous post too, some clever f****r who had used my van while I was on leave once hadn't screwed the lid on the one shot properly, so when I shook the bottle before using it, I ended up with it all over my sweater. What I can only call divine intervention resulted in...

Chance would have been a fine thing. We weren't really given the pleasure of being able to stretch jobs out to make more money. Our boss was intent on taking on as many jobs as they possibly could throughout the day, so we ended up spending our lives trying to be in and out otherwise we ended up...

I need to try and get hold of a guage for an oil feed pipe for a heating system but am struggling to find anything suitable while I know they are available as I've seen them before. The guage is to measure the pressure from the pump as it's a below ground tank but the existing pumps (with...

Having worked as a plumber with a drainage company for 10 years, I can honestly say that using chemicals to unblock drains should only ever be an absolute last resort if there is poor access to the pipework. The amount of times I've been called to blocked sinks and asked if they've used any...