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Quite right, CountryFan, you did suggest getting someone competent to "check out the wiring". Thank you. It was not my first line of inquiry as the wiring had just been done by a "competent" electrician. Also very low resistance (<1 ohm) is hard to measure with a conventional multimeter but...

One of the many things that bugs me about this episode is the patronising way they treat a customer who shows an interest in the job. "Don't worry your pretty little head" taints every conversation while, without wishing to appear cocky, it must have become clear that I know more about the...

Thanks. John Ward of Flameport had a wonderfully helpful tear-down of an immersion thermostat on his YouTube channel - the only one I could find on this topic (in the world?!) and, as usual, superbly presented. It confirms the suspicion that a wiring hot-spot could be the cause. Fingers still...

I may be close to a solution. The live feed to the thermostat was discoloured for the last cm or so, with a rather threadbare clump of copper wire stuffed into the screw-down terminal. I'm wondering if there might have been a little resistance here, producing heat that upset the thermostat as...

Top of cylinder, no sink/bath switching. All very straightforward.

And give the tenant Legionnaire's disease?

Come on, JW. I'm counting on you!

No. It was preset to 60 deg.

Single radial supply from CU with its own MCB. Whole flat rewired about 5 years ago.

Nope. Deffo not.

Reposting this from the plumbing forum as it produced nothing of note: Simple all-electric vented hot water system in small flat. Immersion thermostat cut-out kept tripping, a real nuisance as the flat has a tenant. Plumber changed the stat but it didn't fix the problem. Here's the twist...

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The reset button on the thermostat. Nothing wrong with the wiring. A steady 240v in and clean switch-off from the timer.

No, '70s build block of flats. Say no more. These hybrid plumbing/ electric problems seem to suffer from jobsworth syndrome. I've had one plumber saying it's obviously electrical - not my department - and sparks saying it's probably the tank not filling - not my department. Isn't there ANY...

Simple all-electric vented system in small flat. Immersion thermostat cut-out kept tripping, a special nuisance as the flat has a tenant. Plumber changed the stat but it didn't fix the problem. Here's the twist: Plumbing was about 40 years old and probably furred up so we replaced the ENTIRE...

Very clear answer, Hugh. Thanks. Chris: I'm trying to eliminate the space taken by depth of the cistern, so any close coupled arrangement defeats the object.

Thanks, Hugh. Could you clarify the first point? With a low level cistern, does the seat normally fold open onto the cistern itself or just below it, i.e. resting on the pipe?

Hi. The close-coupled WC pan in a small toilet space sticks out too far and I'm looking at ways of setting it further back. If I changed to a low level cistern, would it save a little space by the seat resting back on the downpipe or do they always rest on the cistern itself? If so, would a...

An update, if anyone is interested. I paid the agency who'd sent Sparky and in return they emailed the ECIR certificate. Amazed to see it had passed! They told me it had failed and would need £700 remedial work (including £300 for new certification). He had marked the RCD tick box simply N/A and...

Really interesting discussion, guys. I'm still a little hazy about about the key question - is £150 per certificate the electrician's charge or is it a fee charged by the council or whatever for registering the job? Is any such charge imposed? If it is all electrician's charge, I must say it...