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hi there, I need to change a shower mixer (aqualisa hydramax/colt) in my daughters flat which is easy enough, however I just need an idea of how to isolate the hot/cold supplies so I can do it. It is a 12 year old Barratt flat with hot water cylinder tank in the airing cupboard and expansion...

I have a GlowWorm boiler, a fuel saver F model 100F which is around 1989 vintage and is fine apart from a noisy fan. My local Gas Safe man checked with his usual supplier and the fan is obsolete but he did say if I found one he would fit it as part of the next service. I have bought and...

Hi there, I have just bought a 1988 house that requires renovation, it has a hardwired and powered down/redundant 1988 alarm system. I have a new Odyssey 3 external sounder and what I want to do as a temporary measure, while I work in the house, is to remove the old sounder, wire in the new...

Hi there, a question for you... I have a 1972 house with an open vented heating system as follows: In loft: cold water tank and heating vent cold water tank Upstairs landing airing cupboard: hot water cylinder, pump, 3 way motorised valve (Y plan), drayton wiring centre Upstairs landing...

I have a 17 year old oil boiler which I am getting replaced. The boiler is a heating only boiler in my utility room with the 3 way motorised valve/water cylinder/pump in the airing cupboard and water tank/heating water system tank in the loft (i.e.vented). I have a Honeywell programmer and...

1) Hi there, I have an Intellisense alarm and due to moving a wall have removed the zone 4 (kitchen) PIR. I opened the PIR (Rokonet Cosmos PQ), typred in my code to stop the tamper alarm, joined the tamper cables and disconnected the alarm and power cables from that PIR. It will be a few...

Hi there, in July 2008 I had an intermittent problem with my 9448+ where the tamper alarm would trigger (with the alarm set or not set). As I was going away on holiday I did the following: 1) replaced the battery with a Yucel one from my local alarm supplier 2) linked the global tamper...

I know this has come up before, but I was hoping to establish definitively whether a 3kW immersion heater (20 A MCB) and a 4 year old electric cooker (10.8Kw, 40 A MCB) should be RCD protected or not when I get my old CU replaced with a new split load one thanks!

I had a new bathroom installed a short while ago, and a sparky did all the bonding. It seems all OK, basically I have 10mm cable to the stopcock (no gas in the house), and in the bathroom itself I have 4mm cable from the shaver socket earth (fed from the lighting circuit) to the cistern...

I need to get my old rewirable fuse unit changed, however due to space constraints (pipework either side) and the desire to have a split load unit I am struggling to get a new one that fits. Screwfix sell a Wylex 9 way unit which will just fit in the space, however are Wylex units OK...

I have just moved into a house and have had a good look around at the bathroom bonding. All the pipes (bath, basin, central heating) are all nicely bonded together, as are the pipes in the airing cupboard which also houses a whole house pump. However..... I notice the bathroom light ( a...

I want to fit a stainless steel corner mirror cabinet into my bathroom but want to fit a surface mount isolated shaver socket inside the cabinet just si it is neat and out of sight. The bathroom earthing and electrics are all up to standard, but the question I have is is it advisable to earth...

On Saturday morning I had a split load consumer unit fitted. The electrician found that the consumer unit supplied by his supplier was incorrect and not a true split load unit. He could not source what he wanted but said no problem he could use the one he had (RCD non split load one). What he...