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Most new routers support wireless DECT handsets, so no one will need any phone wiring in the house ever again.

No difference at all. The only reason there is a larger space between two of the terminals is so the lid fixing screw can go there.

Probably been wired wrong for years or even since it was installed. If someone has been tempering in the past, it's always quicker to just start again with the wiring, rather than attempt to work out what previous incompetents have done.

It's their feeble attempt at a backdraught shutter. Best removed and disposed of as if left in, it will very quickly get clogged with dirt and you will just end up removing it anyway.

The what? Surely the idea of pouring liquid slop into a plastic deal and balancing it on top of clothes hoping it didn't spill and destroy the item directly below was a short lived novelty that went away several decades ago?

The cost of such an overpriced machine would be decades of savings from using off peak electricity.

Meaningless term. Batteries are rated in Ah. Amp-hours. Not Amps per hour or per anything else. A 32Ah battery could theoretically supply 32 amps for 1 hour. Or 16 amps for two hours. Or 64 amps for 30 minutes. Another meaningless term. 5W is 5 watts. There is no hour involved. Watts...

Prysmian is made in the UK. So are Doncaster Cables. Other cables made in foreign places have a reputation for being a pile of crap. Saving a few quid on a roll of cable is blown away 1000 times over when it turns out to be defective, substandard junk made by some manufacturer who then...

DO NOT DO THAT EVER. It was fortunate that this time nothing happened. Had power been available, that bridge wire could have taken out the main supply fuse or caused a fire. It's way past the time to get a professional to investigate and repair.

Neither of those things happen. If you really want it to be inspected annually, then it's done when the boiler is serviced for no or a tiny extra cost. Most people don't bother. There is no boiling water, and it certainly doesn't 'fly about'. Stories you may have read about unvented cylinders...

It will be, it's already grossly oversized as it's been sized for instant hot water delivery. Wireless cylinder thermostats do exist, but unvented cylinders require a hard wired hi-limit thermostat, so the whole lot might as well be wired as a cable will be needed even if the temperature...

Some amount of testing and inspection will be required before a new consumer unit. Whether that involves a complete EICR depends on the size, age, history and observed condition of what's there. In any case, just having someone turn up and sling a new consumer unit in is likely to result in...

5 core flex for each valve, from the valve location to wherever the rest of the system will be located. Wireless thermostat receivers (or wired thermostats) will also need to be connected, as will a thermostat for the hot water cylinder. 5 core flex can be used for those as well, although they...

Sent from an Amazon warehouse, but actually purchased from Yes. Return it as defective. Also ask them for the UKCA and/or CE Declaration of Conformity - which either won't exist or will be a pack of generic lies. It's already failed just because of the paper label on the plug stating a 13A...

Impossible to know that. The new will very likely have different devices in it - RCBOs most likely instead of whatever is in the one you have got. The neutral / earth bars are likely to be in different places. The main switch may be on the opposite size. Cable entry locations will not be...

So what? Dimensions are irrelevant, there is plenty of space to fit any consumer unit there. How do you know? What difference does it make? If the wires need extending/relocating/replacing, whoever installs it will do that.

It must be, as the alarms have a battery backup, and the interconnect still works on battery only when the mains supply has failed.

For the UK, 3&E flat with brown L, grey oversleeved blue for N, black as the interconnect. Substantially the same as the UK, with the main variations being that their T&E has the CPC insulated green/yellow for the entire length and PVC insulated building wiring is not permitted.

For that box leave both switches on all the time. It only does the hot water, which will operate overnight. If you want extra hot water in the day, press one of the oval grey buttons to give it a boost for an hour. Storage heaters are controlled elsewhere, given that BX2000 box exists they are...

You need 2 zone valves, one for the heating and one for the new hot water cylinder. An entirely standard arrangement used in millions of homes everywhere. As for using - you turn the mixer shower on and hot water comes out of it. The cylinder is heated when it's needed by the thermostat...