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Worcester Danesmoor 20/25, about 18 years old. B11 burner. We came home a few days ago to find our boiler in lockout, and not wanting to restart, instead simply doing a pitiful whine. We called an engineer out yesterday who, after a quick diagnosis, worked out that the capacitor had gone. We...

Our heating system has stopped responding to calls for heat from the thermostat. Thermostat is a Siemens wireless, relay opening and closing due to demands from the thermostat checked with meter and appears to be working correctly. Programmer is a Honeywell ST9400C, wiring is standard Honeywell...

So the wife has decided that Duravit toilets look nice, and she has a point, but now that I'm planning to fit them I'm running into the issue that the spigot on the pan appears to be 82mm inside diameter, 106mm outside and a standard uk pan connector doesn't fit... isn't this the sort of thing...

We're having an issue that when it rains heavily the flow in the valley between the two roof sections is fast enough that it overshoots the gutter and splashes onto the patio below. This is splashing onto patio doors and causing a problem with water ingress. Roofing and guttering is not my...

I'm looking for some info on installing a Crosswater fixed shower head. It's the kind that has a BSP thread to connect a flexible tap connector on the gooseneck. Nothing that looks to me to be any method of mounting it. Not enough thread to use two nuts to fasten to a plate. Is it as simple...

Just seeking some clarification on the wiring regs regarding electric undertile heating in an ensuite shower room. The heating cable will be laid in zone 2, will be on an RCD protected circuit and with the thermostat and fcu located outside the room. The cable will be of the appropriate IP...

What's considered a suitable alternative method for splitting a spur when the join will be inaccessable, as a junction box wouldn't be considered acceptable?

More for my own general knowledge than anything else, I've seen rotating lasers on site and could never work out how you used them. I assume they provide a horizontal datum, and perhaps some distance measuring capability, but how do you set them up in the first place? Do you just choose a...

Anyone know where I can find an online supplier of Stopgap 600, or have an idea of the price direct from FBall

Our house, built in the eighties, has a concrete ground floor The screed is 25mm thinner in the kitchen and has had quarry tiles laid that bring the floor level up to the same as the rest of the building. We're planning to lay an engineered oak throughout the rest of the house, thickness...

We're looking at putting an induction hob into our new kitchen, but I'm finding myself staggered at the amount of current these things can draw. the one that we're looking at, the Miele KM5975 is rated at 11.3kw at full tilt. I was considering using a grid but i think that's out of the...

So we're lifting a quarry tile floor in our kitchen to get the depth we need to add underfloor heating and insulation boarding onto the concrete slab. We're then going to lay new ceramic tiles over the top. We need the depth to avoid a step up from the hall. The quarry tiles are coming up easily...