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    Gas pipe live?

    Well here's the tale. !940's house which has probably been in the same family since, recently owned by housing association so a council build? House is soon to be mine and according to Wales and West utilities doesn't have a gas supply. The family that were occupiers had a thing about gas and...
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    Gas supply to house installation

    Having brought an old housing association property without a gas supply into the house i'm trying to get my ducks in a row for job priority list. I will have to dig a trench minimum 375mm deep up front garden from council footpath, 14 meters long. to front of house and meter box. Running across...
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    Generic temperature probes?

    Have a Bosch stellis condensing GVSC 28 2 H running on LPG. Fault code CC keeps coming up. This shows as external temperature probe fault. I have checked that is wired into the correct place on the pcb. If boiler turned off and on fault goes away until the next time. The boiler seems connected...
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    AEG SB9300-U or possibly BL840-1 smoothie? maker

    Hi has anyone had dealings with one of these. Worked fine for about 9 months although always sounded like you were drilling for oil then quit. The thing isn't cheap about £300, got mine from an auction boxed new unopened so although its AEG quality, and do they ever seem to be trading on their...
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    Megane pollution system

    Hi I have a Renault Megane 1.6 dci on a 13 plate with 100k now on the clock. I have been trying to find out what anti pollution system is fitted, fap, blue stuff, it just regenerates but cannot get a straight answer. To my knowledge its had nothing put in anywhere in the time I've had it. Should...
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    LPG to Oil boiler swap

    Firstly having looked at the pictures and read the following is it 1 possible 2 economic Situation is this. lpg gas fired condensing boiler fitted internal to house in France. It eats gas and therefore money. It runs central heating over three floors totalling 350 sq meters. It also keeps what...
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    Stand alone genealogy programme?

    Is there one anyone has used. Situation is having used an online provider to look up the history in the free two week period I now have a gedcom file downloaded. I would like to open these files but they are in a format the companies that have purchased??? our public records don't want to make...
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    it all seemed so easy

    Yep it did. Bathroom sink not draining down. The sink is pedestal mounted with the usual rats nest of pipes plug up and down thingy and no room for human hand. Anyway its a rented property and not wanting anyone to come out in the current clime crack on and get the waste trap off, empty of...
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    stupid propane question

    Bear with me once more. I have a condensing wall mounted French boiler. This is on a timer/thermostat is about 35 kw and heats about 15 rads. It also heats hot water stored in a 50 or thereabouts litre container. Its fed by a one tonne tank. the boiler is on for two hours in the morning at 20...
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    Needles

    Whats the correct term for these now and where can I get them from? I need to support a random stone wall above a failing wooden lintel. The plan would be to insert needles under the roof support beam, old oak not necessarily straight with acros internally and externally. Remove the stones down...
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    Water being blown through tun dish

    Hi, the situation is this. Ballon French water heater a cross between immersion tank and pressurised system as I understand it. There is a safety module under the tank which has prv, tun dish and cold inlet connected. the dish has water in it which according to French manufacturer is o.k in...
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    vertical 'slate' tile cladding

    Firstly thanks for your time reading this. The situation is this. I have a gable end of a barn in France. The lower element is granite random field stone. Above this resting on the wall and attached at the sides, I hope, is a substantial wooden soft wood frame with other original oak elements ...
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    Unruly thermostat

    System is a stellis GVSC 28-2 H condensing boiler on lpg with a Honeywell CM 907 controller - thermostat. The problem is that despite my best efforts the controller seems to ignore totally the times programmed into it and operates solely on the command of the thermostat function. The controller...
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    French cable designations

    I have a thermostat going to a boiler, all destructions in French, the book has the cable labelled as L and S presumably L = live and S= neutral bearing in mind that in France the neutral is live I believe. Can anyone confirm this please
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    Battery charger grille

    French neighbour has a rechargeable, well it was, sprayer for natures little pests. The charger made in china, mains input, 12v 1.0A IP30 output to a rechargeable lead acid 12 V 7.5Ah battery has grille itself. My question is can I connect a normal car battery charger to the battery or will it...
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    Renault Mégane 3 headlight swap

    Have changed headlights from lhd to rhd. Have lost side lights and indicators. Plug for lights is 6 pin of which 4 are used. Did have ns indicator at one stage but lost it after swopping bulbs for test. Do the headlights need programming in some way I know a new battery has to be introduced to...
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    Bathroom mirror and shaver socket

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    Cracked wall advice sought

    Have a look at the attached image please and give me some thoughts on what you'd do to effect a repair. See the next post for image wouldn't upload first time construction is columbage, norman local method. Basically clay with bits of stone in it. Stone work is granite
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    Powerline adapter to signal booster possible?

    The scenario at present is this two houses in France. Router is in one house and provides wifi in that property. Separate property across 25 meters of courtyard is supplied by plugging router into powerline adapter in property one and utilising electrical connection between properties getting...
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    2007 Ford Transit 6 speed gearbox oil spec

    Can anyone give me the equivalent spec for other oil companies for this oil. Ford want you to use wss m2c200 d2 has this got say a mobile or comma lookalike. I have a pot of comma sx75w-90 gl5 which has been hanging around for sometime so putting it in a box would make better economic sense for...
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