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    garden lights - replacing bulb!!

    Sorry, sorry. I don't quite know where else to ask. We have a bunch of post lights on the patio of our house, which the previous owner installed. No instructions, naturally. All bulbs have now died and I cannot, for the life of me, work out how to replace them! The lights are from Ring...
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    Setting up my CH system...boiler, TRVs and room stat?

    Apologies if this is in the wrong place...!Could anyone give me a numpty's guide to setting rads etc? So we have a new (ish - 2yrs) condensing combi, a wireless programmable room thermo in the living room, and TRVs on each rad in the house. How should I set things up for max efficiency...
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    Shockgard sensors?

    Recently moved house, Eurosec alarm fitted (can't see a model number). No manual, no details, no master code on handover etc...! chap came round to reset the system this weekend, all looks good. We have Shockgards on a lot of the windows. A couple are flashing amber..what does this mean, I...
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    shower door clips

    firstly...apologies if wrong forum...! Seemed sort of right. Our shower door needs new clips at the bottom to hold the door in line/guide it as it slides...(it's a quadrant shower so curved door/runner). last one died today so our shower door now swings freely. Not good. Where can I get...
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    Toilet troubles

    ...so to speak. Just replaced the flush on our toilet. All looks good, however on flushing there's a small amount of water creeping from the bottom of the cistern onto the body of the loo itself. When replacing the flush mechanism there was a sort of rubber foam washer/seal where the cistern...
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    boiler pressure frustrations continue...

    So, the Gloworm 35ci has been playing up since we moved house. Recently been having lots of problems with pressure falling from 1.0 bar to 0.6 bar (thus not firing up as pressure too low). Water dripping from the overflow pipe outside, pressure up to 3.0ish when boiler working. Expansion...
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    GloWorm 35ci...repressurising pressure vessel

    OK so from reading lots on the forum it looks as though our problem might be the pressure vessel. Lots of water coming out of the 'overflow' pipe at the side of the house - pressure around 2.7bar during operation, dropping rapidly when cold to around 0.6bar. Checked the FAQ for how to go about...
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    Gloworm 35ci combi - pressure fluctuations

    Evening all This here ******* boiler is rapidly becoming the bane of my existence since our house move in August. Various issues have gradually been fixed at great expense, but we're still having a bit of a wierd situation going on. Basically the pressure in the boiler drops from 1.0 bar to...
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    plastic pipes?

    Hi Got a bit of a leak from one of the feed pipes for our boiler. It's grey plastic piping which has a stoptap on it, all brass fittings. The leak appears to be coming from the nuts joining the tap to the plastic pipe - no obvious hole etc. Not worked with plastic pipe before - do I need to...
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    square tap - replacing washer

    Hi bath tap starting to drip. it's a square mixer tap (looks similar to this without the shower bit) no obvious H/C screw cover as per 'usual' which might let me get access to the inner gubbins. Am I right in thinking it's a 'lever up the tap head via the wee gap between the static bit...
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    help please - wierd noise - pipes/water demand?

    New to the forum, morning all! Moved house a couple of months ago, and have had no end of problems since then, mostly with our Gloworm 35ci but hopefully we've got to the end of those - new block/valves/pump and so on. Lovely. Anyway, we have this wied thing going on which I'm at a bit of...
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