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Thanks for all of your replies. I’ve got some more info that you asked for. Turning on an upstairs tap drops the pressure on the gauge to a little over 1 bar (from just over 3), then turning on a further tap drops that to below 1. I didn’t have a big enough bucket but at my tap in the garage I...

Wasn’t too clear in my original post so sorry, the problem is if for example I’m filling the bath with both taps on full, and then turn on the hot tap in the bathroom, that’s just a trickle. Assumed giving the whole system a bit more would help or maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree?

Hi, When we moved into the house the mains water pressure was so high it would splash out of the sinks when opening a tap fully and pop the hoselock fitting off my hose pipe so we got a plumber out and they fitted a Caleffi 553 pressure reducing valve. This is all good, water pressure in the...

We’ve got a 1940s detached house, the living room has been knocked through into what I imagine was the old dining room to create one big room. We starting to remove the carpet with the hope of exposing the underlying floorboards and found this in the middle of the room where the original...

Hi, Our 1940s detached house doesn't have cavity wall insulation (which I found out recently while having some windows replaced). The ground floor of our external walls are exposed brick but the first floor has been rendered, does anyone know if it’s possible to install cavity wall insulation...

Thank you both, I'll track down the other junction box between here and the outside. it wasn't until I studied my own pictures that I realised that the "outside" cable coming into this has white insulation, whereas the cable running around my house is black so they must be joined somewhere, I...

Yes I have, here's the junction box: The bottom left wire comes in from outside, where it runs around the house as a thick black cable and drops down into my driveway, the orange and blue wires from that are the only ones connected. The top left wire goes upstairs to the socket in my...

Even though the extensions are from the junction box and not from the master socket? From the photos I took they look the same thickness as the ones they're connected to but I'll double-check, thanks. On the potential improvement, I assumed that removing a pair of joints in the decades-old...

Hi, Moved into a 40s/50s house with some interesting phone wiring I'm trying to unpick. The main phone wire comes in through the front door into an old PTO labelled junction box (screw-down terminals with metal bars connecting them together) above the door. From this one cable runs down the...

Ah excellent, thanks. The reason I was looking at those like the RS example I linked to was that I also have a device which takes a 12V supply so was originally looking to see if I could get a dual output (5v and 12v) but I suppose if I got whatever I needed to mount this into it would probably...

I am looking to wire in USB power supplies for both my Nest Thermostat and Netatmo indoor weather station unit, both currently take power from their respective supplied micro-usb to usb cables which plug into wall power adapters. For cosmetic reasons I have limited space so would like to replace...

Hahaha excellent! =) Thanks I suspected I could, just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to offend some Greater Sparky Regs god in some way by doing it.

Hi, Our wall lights are controlled by a double switch, a switch for each side of the room (no other switches control these lights): We're redecorating at the moment and would rather all of the lights are controlled by a single switch. As you can see in the picture, a single wire from...

Hi, Bought a house mid last year which has a wired alarm fitted (Paragon Plus control box, bunch of PIRs and door sensors, see pic). It works fine but we're in the process of doing up the house and I'd like to add some more sensors and if possible a remote keypad. I must confess to...

Hi, I've just moved house and all three toilets have really useless flushes (they seem to still use a load of water but take two of three flushes to completely clear). They all have "ecobeta" dual flush retrofit kits installed on them. Does anyone know anything about these (are they any...

Hi, I've read quite a few threads on this forum about this, so I think I know what I need to do, but can someone just confirm. I am replacing my toilet with a new one, the plastic soil pipe comes out of the concrete floor a few cm too far from the wall, so the existing 90 deg bend causes...

Thank you so much for your help mate, much appreciated.