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Friend's bungalow in France, wired by us but signed off properly & connected - no problems. We have a little gizmo, plugged into a mains socket that receives a signal each day (about 20:00) that says what the electricity tariff will be in the next day. The gizmo shows this as one of a set of...

A week or two ago my daughter asked me to have a look at her CH. The heating was very intermittent. She had a Siemens thermostat in the sitting room with a wireless receiver in the airing cupboard upstairs alongside the combi. No heating. On checking on the web I found that it was...

We want to get the free-to-air UK satellite channels at a house about 30kms north of Bordeaux. (Lat 45.37, Lon -0.44) We have a redundant Sky dish and a free-to-air tuner, both of which have worked well enough in Ireland. I suspect that we'll need a bigger dish that the oval 74 by 60 cm...

Cameron today announced a campaign to fight against the vested interests that hold back the UK.... AMEN ... at last! So, is this the moment to re-launch the campaign to remove the ridiculous Part P and other ridiculous restrictions on really and totally free trade and growth that the...

A dimmer switch has failed and doesn't appear repairable. Since it was made by Crabtree I bought what I thought would be a one-for-one replacement. However, the rectangular box of tricks on the back of the switch is deeper by a few mms and the wires go in via the back rather than the short...

Building house in France, wiring it up ourselves to French standards in order to get French sign-off for mains connection. It is understood that the NORMES don't like the use of wiring like ours, i.e. several cores in outer sheath. When the thermostats are connected (there are 6), the...

I have been helping a friend with a new build in France. He is doing the electrics. Got the general wiring sorted and we now see that we have to put RJ45 sockets in all the "principal rooms". Isn't the use of RF45 a bit old-fashioned since I distribute internet access in my house in UK with...

I am about to install an expansion vessel next to a CH boiler and remove the expansion tank in the roof. In my other property the expansion tank is installed with the fittings (safety vale, filler etc.) at the top. The diagrams that have come with the vessel I've just bought who the fittings...