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I have installed an old style interrupter doorbell (via transformer to mains) which buzzes rather than rings, although on the last note there is a ring sound. I'm not clear about where the clapper head should be in relation to the bell itself when at rest. Whether touching, close up or a...

I have just replaced to old wall lights with better looking lamps. The old wall lights operated from a 2 gang switch ( one a 2-way for top and bottom of the stairs, the other 1- way for the wall lights of the downstairs room). Each of the wall lights also had its own independent push...

My garage is, as ever, stuffed with useful things I don't want to chuck out. From time to time I have to get rid of stuff that has either rusted or gone soggy from the dripping underside of the corrugated metal roof, which slopes from the back down to the front. Air can get through into the...

I have found an old electrical doorbell, the type that makes a big sound and I would like to install it Does it need a transformer and can I power it via creating a spur from an existing lighting spur, or do I have to hunt for the lighting ring?

I have a direct feed electric shower that has always, for a few years now, worked perfectly, until a short time back when a nearby farm had to start irrigating in the mornings. They have stopped doing this now. When they were irrigating this seemed to affect our water pressure (our house was...

At this time of the year, winter, when the sun comes out the underside of my garage roof, exposed corrugated iron sheeting, attracts considerable condensation and the constant dripping saturates everything below. Does anyone know how I might line the underside of the roof (preferably without...

I live in a stone cottage where much of the pipework is inaccessible (even the Water Board can't find where the water comes in!) and there's no internal mains stopcock. The bathroom radiator, which is on the ground floor, remains luke warm (evenly over its whole surface) while all other...

I have recently discontinued using an oil burning stove (for obvious reasons!) which had supplemented our oil fired central heating. I put a 12mm brass compression stop end on the tee feeding the stove. However, at the nut end it is weeping oil although I did wrap some pft tape around the...

Can anyone tell me how to identify the ring cable for the lighting circuit in the attic, thereby helping me avoid breaking into a switch cable?