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Afternoon all. I have a mains smoke alarm in my hall which is quite a way from my Kitchen Diner. Whenever I do Cheese on Toast, the bread isn't at all burnt, just dark but it sets my alarm off. I have a little very nervous rescue dog who freaks out at the noise and it takes hours to calm her and...

Hello boilerman, thanks for good wishes, all well apart from Squeaky next door. My builders nicknamed him that and he somehow became marginally less intimidating :roll: It's a bad situation as I may have to sell quickly at some point due to failing health and if I have a declarable neighbourly...

thanks gaz xx :( At the risk of sounding nuts .... it is not so much a high pitched trumpet noise more a mid pitched hunting horn sort of foghorn. This guy tinkers with and claims to be a qualified spark, he tinkers with gas, I have heard him say, "cover it up, they'll never know", I have...

:| I have a nightmare Mr Nasty builder doing up a small property next door. He is well known to relevant depts of local council and other builders who seem to follow him round putting right what he does wrong .... I'm pretty easy going but he has been at it for two years ! Burning rubbish...

thanks again John, it's a horrible feeling heading towards Christmas with this feeling that it will let me down over the holidays when I'm having my first friends to stay for ages. Not sure what the engineer tested yesterday. If he did anything he was quick ..... as he was only alone for a few...

Well the engineer came back today ...... ran grill, oven with/without fan, got it very very hot, twiddled the knobs and it would not trip. He rang a mate who has been in the business for 30 years who said maybe wiring .... Was here for 30+mins, would not trip. Now I have a sneaky feeling that...

Yippee :) Sorted. Struggled as most spares sites showing everything other than my crisper drawer, or saying obsolete. One really cheesed me off as they showed two different ones available both for same model (which I wouldn't have imagined could be right), at different prices and one...

John I feel like I've known you for years ! Being an obscure make (I thought) and a funny size ... I can't believe I just googled Borshch and found them in Birmingham, they used to brand other manufacturers items with their name, but no more. Super helpful though as I had never thought to...

Well on the way, hopefully to sorting my dodgy oven, and as I am so impressed with this forum :D here's one re my fridge/freezer ..... It is quite old, but works perfectly. It is a Borshch ... honest, it is not my typpin ..... :? Only problem is the salad drawer has cracked from...

John the burnerman, I have just read my original post and see why I confused you ! what a difference two letters i.e. UN placed before a word makes ! it should have said trip was not oversensitive and in an acceptable range. (looking for a smilie with Egg on its Face ....) :o and thank...

Hi John, My electrician said trip was fine and he showed me how he tested it. I just seemed to be falling down the cracks of an appliance fault vs wiring/electicity fault. It has tripped when a spotlight bulb has gone, but the oven seems to be the culprit. Hob works fine as do all other...

Thanks JohnD and burnerman. Board is high up so due to poor mobility I can't get up to take a better photo. A delivery man just had a look and said the blue and white switch which trips says 80A / 30mA I don't have overhead cables. the bathroom and shower is quite new although done by...

it is the blue and white switch in top right corner Thanks for your help x[/img]

I had electricity checked out and the sensitively of the trip was tested and found to be within unacceptable range Hi Zipper, that is how he explained it to me. He loaded the circuit and measured at which point it tripped. Apologies if I use wrong terminology, I am an elderley lady who doesn't...

I have a problem with a Baumatic BT2385. Grill with fan trips main fuse, sometimes immediately, sometimes when it has been on for a short time. Engineer here yesterday replaced function selector switch. Went to pre-heat oven in evening, on fan oven, warmed up for 10 mins then it tripped...

:( Hi - it has only just started to happen. I have quite an old Micromark dehumidifer which is brilliant. Very effective and I would be lost without it. I empty the large opague plastic tank at least once every few days and the water and the container have always been white and clean looking...

Thanks Richard, My problem was the main man came recommended as a fitter of alarm systems but also claimed to be able to do other building work including pointing and I fell for it ....... He fitted an alarm and bought along a young chum who attacked the pointing. I should have been more...

Thanks very much, I will try the "three pronged approach!", jetwash, brush and acid. It would do me a favour if it did blast out the mortar as the whole lot needs repointing anyway :?

I was dismayed when I returned home to find a lad, day 1 on the job and never done it before, had been let loose on repointing the 3 courses of brickwork at ground level around my bungalow. He seems to have lost interest after the first few feet then made a right mess getting more on the bricks...