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I’ve moved into a house that has Nibo Modular dimmers on low voltage Halogen lights. I’ve replaced with LED MR16 bulbs but they now don’t work but work if I go back to halogen. Can anyone tell me if I can change the programming to make them work? The manual is here but I don’t understand...

I’ve moved into a house that has Nibo Modular dimmers on low voltage Halogen lights. I’ve replaced with LED MR16 bulbs but they now don’t work but work if I go back to halogen. Can anyone tell me if I can change the programming to make them work? The manual is here but I don’t understand...

We have an Archer C7, AC1750 Wireless router at the moment which works perfectly but need to extend the range of it due to thick walls. Powerline adapators have proved unreliable and need resetting often. The two I was considering was either the TP Link AC2600 (£59.99), AC1759 (£36.99) or the...

Hi Can anyone recognise the make and model of this dinner/ light switch from this photo? Thanks.

I am shortly going to be moving into a house that has solar panels installed. The current owners of the house know little about them as they also inherited them and have not set them up. I have the MCS Certificate advising that the Total Installed Capacity is 3.92KW and an annual estimated...

Hi all. I am in the process of buying a house with an oil fired boiler. Near the boiler it has what appears to be an old electric meter/ sub meter that looks like it has a wire connected to some old copper pipework with a sensor on?! Does anyone know what this is. Circled in red on the...

Hi all I've currently got a vaulted ceiling in a lounge in a very old stone cottage. There are no eaves as such or ventilation, it has a slate roof with felt beneath. Between the rafters is fiberglass insulation only. Beneath the rafters is a plastic sheeting that i'm assuming was added as a...

Hi all I’ve got a fireplace that currently has a gas supply with a flueless stove in. Chimney is not lined. The stove needs replacing so am wondering which is the easiest option to go down. Considering putting an open fire in here but it’s quite a large opening so am just wondering how this...

I can’t set my alarm because it says ones of the zones is active. I don’t want to have to manually bypass it every time I set the alarm. Is there a way to permanently remove/ bypass it? I have the engineers codes etc. I’m assuming the PIR is faulty but it’s in a low risk area so happy to do...

Hi all. I need to find some connectors for these radiators to be able to connect to some normal size copper pipework. Can anyone give me any hints on the size I should be looking for? Thanks Stuart

I’m wanting to wire a Honeywell 2 port zone valve up to a simple on/ off switch using a timer, I.e. live/ neutral and earth. Which colours will power the motor to open the valve? I presume it doesn’t need power to close the valve. Thanks.

Hi, just recently moved into a new house that has this boiler in. The pressure seems low and I’d like to top up. The flexi hose and tap doesn’t seem to fill the system. Do I need to do something the other end of it? Also, the boiler randomly fires every few hours... is this normal? Possibly...

I’m about to buy a new house where the current gas fire needs replacing. I’m considering either an open fire, gas stove or multifuel stove. The chimney is not currently lined and I’d prefer not to have to put a liner in if it’s in good enough condition. I will get a Hetas engineer around in...

Hi all. I have a small weep/ drip that I can’t stop despite trying plumbers tape, putty and nipping them up etc. It seems as though the drip maybe coming from the tap side of the nut as opposed to the back... highlighted in red on the photo... If I take the taps off, leaving the uprights...

Boiler is a Worcester Camray External Boiler. The Riello Burner RD3 sits in the bottom of the boiler with the oil pipe into the side of it. The oil tank sits a few inches higher than the boiler but is not raised up any more. Am I right in saying it is gravity fed only? I presume, the question...

I've got a new router arriving next week and need to get it setup to connect to my Texecom panel... hardwired, not wifi etc. Port forwarding always baffles me so i'm getting someone to help me that knows about these things! Question is, beforehand, what information do I need to get for him...

For the last 3 weeks, my internet has dropped out on a Wednesday... my heating sends me a notification saying it's lost connection to the gateway. It also results in me being unable to access the Hikvision NVR and Texecom alarm. Turning the router on and off fixes this. The house is a holiday...

Hi all I've previously had a nightmare getting a BT provided one to to work with a COMIP on a Texecom alarm as it kept seeing to loose settings/ revert to some default settings under port forwarding etc from what I can recall. For the moment it's working... but I don't have much faith in it...

Hi all Noticed the expansion tank was full of water/ very heavy and had lost pressure. Isolated water, ran off water and starting pumping (with a high pressure manual bike pump). Could not get any pressure into the expansion tank although air was going in... When tap was opened and during...

Hi all A fairly new install and i'm just tweaking with settings etc so will have a couple of questions I imagine over the next week or two... first one...: Can I turn off the IR on cameras? I've been told it might improve night time quality if there's light available which there is....NVR is a...