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We recently moved into a house with an alarm installed , but told by previous owner it hasn't worked for years. We had an electrical safety test and initially failed and the alarm appeared to be the cause. I agreed to have the alarm removed from the mains and have my certificate now. No loss as...

Our house is a David Wilson house built 9 years ago. It originally had a car port with a couple of lights on the ceiling of the car port operated by a light switch by the back door. The first owners built a garage with bedroom over and now the garage lights are operated by switches in the...

Hi I have moved into a house in Apr 14 with an Ideal ICOS HE12 supplying heat for Central Heating and a Santon unvented water tank. There is a Drayton lifestyle programmable timer and a room stat in the hall. Its worked fine over the summer with a timed 20 mins in the morning and 15 mins...

In our last 2 houses we have been able to influence the heating system and have had wireless room stats to control both the temp and times the heater comes on. However we are about to move and there is an exisiting system installed that we will not be replacing. There is a Danfoss (not sure...

Hi I am due to move house in April and we are planning to tile the Kitchen/Dining room. It is open plan but with a dividing wall about 2/3 of the length of the room so the areas are a bit separate. The current flooring is lino in the kitchen and carpet in the dining area. We want to...

Hi I have been having problems with my outside tap and hose connection since moving here 6 years ago! Basically the outlet of the tap is 3/4" - what I want to have is an adaptor to screw onto the 3/4" thread that will allow a quickfit hose to connect. This way if I need to use the tap to...

Hi I was having trouble locking the door this afternoon and have moved the part on the slave door where the big slot part inserts as I found it was fouling against this. While doing this I noticed that the bottom lock does not even reach far enough across to where it locates so effectively...

Hi I have bought separately a used set of Genuine GM roof bars for my 59 reg Astra Estate and a used Halfords Roof Box. The roof box came with u bolts to fix to the roof bars, but being aero type bars the u bolts do not fit around the bars. I went and bought a Thule fitting kit to use...

Hi Our Mixer shower - fed from Cold Mains and Combi Boiler is leaking. I think from the spindle that control temperature. I have removed control knobs and casing, but the shower is unbranded and does not have make or model number on casing or unit underneath. I am thinking it will be best...

Early this morning we returned from Holiday to find the boiler in Low Pressure alarm and Water all over the worktop - the boiler is a Viessmann Vitodens 100 30kw installed into the house from new in 2006. My first reaction was to top up the system using the top up loop to see if the water...

I currently have a Sunvic RF Digital, but the receiver is not working any longer - the circuit boards seems to have given up. The signal are still recieved from wireless stat but the switch to the boiler is not working. Even pressing and holding the test button does not work. Anyway, I have...