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One of my sensors (kitchen window 'shake' sensor) is randomly activating the alarm. No obvious reason, but I thought that this particular device needed a lot of vibration and input before it worked. Can anyone suggest a reason for it going off? Can I disable it in the app (HC 2.0)? I see that...

Thanks everyone for the interesting comments. I went back for a second test drive yesterday. When at a red light, you press a button near the gearstick ('Hold') and then take your foot off the brake. To move off, you press the accelerator lightly and the brake disengages - no need to press any...

Thanks for the quick replies. I've heard that more modern automatic gearboxes don't like frequent shifts between drive and neutral as this can cause damage. My test drive was in a (2024) Toyota Yaris Cross hybrid by the way - any owners out there to say what they do? Obviously I did as the...

I've been driving automatics for 50 years and I was taught to put the stick into neutral if I needed to stop for more than a few seconds (lights, slow queues etc.). so as not to dazzle the driver behind with the brake lights. (One video on YT says that you should use neutral at night but not...

Two questions here - sorry! 1. Over the years my friend has recorded concerts from his TV onto DVD disks - his system went back to about 2000 and he has lots of disks. His player/recorder recently gave up the ghost and he has bought a shiny new LG player. This is now refusing to play some ...

I had a new consumer unit fitted and no rewire necessary. The downlights in the bathroom had to be replaced for a reason I forget, the electric shower isolator switch had to be replaced, the lights throughout the house had to have earths fitted and the bonding to the gas pipe had to be...

Thanks to everyone for the very helpful replies. Yes, it was a speed limit warning, I think. I believe that the settings (including the speed limit indicator) can be updated - any idea how? I often drive on that section of the A20 which has been in the news recently - the limit on one...

2020 Nissan Micra Acenta. For no reason the car beeps twice when I'm going along at the legal limit, often in light traffic in good weather. Sometimes three or four times a day, sometimes never. Does anyone have this model and have an idea where the beep is coming from? The car is running...

The fuse for the pump is 10A so it must be quite powerful. The wipers are on a different fuse. Thanks for all the interesting replies. One thing I did learn from this was how to remove the lid of the fuse box in the engine compartment, which isn't ideally placed as it has cables and wires...

It wasn't dry but yes, a partly frozen pump might be the explanation.

Last week I thoroughly defrosted my windscreen and a few minutes after driving off I turned on the wipers and inadvertently the sprayer too. These worked fine, but a while later I noticed that the wipers were OK but the sprayer wasn't working. The washer water had the usual additives and...

Can I also ask if I can apply the above calculation to my unmarked dial as I'd like to know my flow temperature. It's a Greenstar system boiler.

Thanks for the advice. My flow temperature dial (Worcester Greenstar Ri) shows just a black arc which gets increasingly thicker towards a 'max' marking. What temperature am I at now, for instance? (The cylinder stat is clearly marked from 40 to 80 and it's at 60 at the moment).

Thanks, I suspected as much. I've taped it in for the moment with some of that strong black tape and it's definitely sitting snugger but I expect that the heat will affect the adhesion in a day or two.

I posted a few days ago that my domestic hot water was very, very hot. I linked that to me having increased the boiler flow temp. Well today I decided to investigate more and I see that my HW thermostat is attached low down on the cylinder but the white wire thing that was securing it has come...

The less/fewer debate has been around for years. It's 'you should of/could of' instead of 'should have etc.' which is, if anything, more common. I think that this one is hardly noticed in speech but it stands out when written.

It's interesting that the water companies don't seem to ask if you want a smart meter, they just install it. Yet gas and electricity meters have to be by way of consent. I wonder why there's a difference. One thing I would say is that the water meter is much more difficult to monitor, check or...

A guy just turned up and crouched down behind the garden wall. He didn't appear for a while so I grabbed a crowbar (not really!) and went out. He was from Thames Water and he was installing a smart water meter. I didn't know that such a thing existed but he was very professional and tested...

Thanks, I'll check the cylinder stat is OK - to be honest I rarely touch it.

I recently increased my boiler flow temperature (system boiler) as the radiators weren't really coping with the very low temperatures. The house is now warm, but I've noticed that our hot water is noticeably hotter even though I haven't touched the cylinder thermostat. Is that normal?