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Hi, i'm in a bungalow with a vented gravity system & showers weren't the greatest, so we upgraded the main to a 25mm & fitted a pressurised system with 4.4bar incoming & 3 bar reduced at the hot water tank has really improved things. On one shower we had hot & cold 22mm incoming & a 15mm down...

Hi, i have an inverter that is a Growatt 6kw with a max 500v input & 150v start up & the panels are all as per spec below. I have 10 panels & would like to wire them in 2 series of 5 = 10 in total. Which i think is 5x40.25voc = 212.50v Is my figures correct for my inverter & should i take any...

Hi, we are looking at getting a 2 emersion pressurised hot water tank fitted & it will need an expansion vessel. Will it harm or help the hot water if we fitted a larger one. Q&A 2 if i can. Our boiler is in the loft next to where this new hot water tank will go & has an 1"&1/2 waste pipe going...

Hi, cant see one on line & was wondering if there was an such a thing as an inline electric circular saw brake ??. The mitre/bench saw i have is fine. But if i am cutting a lots of wood "IE: a hundred pieces" I have to wait for the blade to stop on every cut. Any sensible idea's. ??

Hi, i am at the planning stage of a solar panel system & getting a lot of contradiction on earthing. The drawing is the plan & i would say earth ABCD earth off the incoming main as all will have 230'ish volts. But not sure on EFG & weather G is needed if connected to the main intake. I am even...

A few year back one of the new countries formed when yugoslavia got split up came up with the idea on personal tax to pay 20% for everyone up to 15k. Then 18% from 15-25K & 16% on 25-35K. It was to encourage the more wealthy to stay in the country & pay taxes instead of moving money outside...

Hi, just picked up some reversing lights that were advertised like this, 12v x 48W LED Work Light Bar Flood Spot Lights. I am assuming 48/12 = 4 amps. Yet when i put it via the ma on my volt meter in series its reading 322ma ???. Any idea's what i am missing.

Glow worm 30sxi main heat exchanger packed up & £600 + fitting to repair, it's time for a new boiler. I was looking at vissmann, but they want to know the ins & outs of a ducks bum. To save money i wanted to fit it myself & pay a gas engineer to test & certificate it. Any boiler recommendations ??

I dont say correct. But how many have the better MCB screwdriver. ?? You defiantly get a better torque on the screw with this one.

I was just thinking of upgrading my gravity hot water system to a sealed system on tank side of things. Sods law the boiler just packed up & we think it might be the heat exchanger @ around £600 + fitting. Now i cant afford to update everything & was thinking of going down the combi route...

Hi, looking to ask our plumber to fit an unvented hot water tank as we live in a bungalow & need a better head of pressure for some taps & 2 showers. Now, we fitted a 25mm poly main years ago & have a great flow & pressure, so time for an upgrade. Now most tanks we looked at only have one 22mm...

A friend is doing up an old railway ticket office that used to be fed off a local level crossing supply. This was for just 2 lights & 1 double power point. They now want a 40amp supply & asked to local lecy board for a new main & was quoted quite a few thousand pounds because it needs a...

Hi, has anyone lost the weather repot on the top left of there owl intuition Browser like below ?? Thanks.

Hi, hope you can help. i have a CCTV DVR which i would like to access remotely. I have registered with a DNSdynamic as i don't have a static IP address. Now this seems to be fine & i can get to my login page via this service for the CCTV DVR, but it wont except my user name & password for the...

Hi, got a small problem with noise transfer from the boilers pump to ceiling. I have put in my own heating in a bungalow with the boiler & tanks in the loft & pipes dropping down to the rads all done in plastic except for the last 2 meters to the boiler which is in copper. (All is working...

Hi, we are fitting a boiler & are about to fit a 22mm condensation pipe from the boiler to a waste pipe in the bathroom, but the length of run is around 11 meters with a nice slope. What is the maximum length this can be in 22mm?. The only info with the boiler is that on a long run, increase...

Hi, having trouble locating some Texecom Premier ID biscuit's to work with the 60 id expansion card. Are these the same as the Honeywell ones so i could use these instead? Thanks. Chris.

Hi, cant seem to find the answer on whether this memory Premier module is still available. It extends the log to 10,000 events & would be real handy for my situation. Has anyone fitted one or seen one. (It apparently fits on the expansion port) Thanks Chris.

Hi, any recommended on alarm panels with a good track record for reliability & expandability (20 zone min) Thanks Chris

Hi, we are at the planning stage with a new build & wanted to install a multi fuel log fire with water heating facility’s, that draws its air from outside. The main reason for this, is there will also be a heat recovery ventilation system being installed & didn’t want the log fire sucking the...