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Hi all. Our house is lit entirely with downlighters, mostly Halogen MR16s but I've replaced the ones in key areas like the hall with LEDs - along with their transformers. Over the years a number have failed because the electrician didn't use fire rated enclosures (renovation was around 2003 so...

Because he was on a time rate of £65/hr and their to investigate a earth leak the Boiler installer noticed - which we reckon is a small earth leak from the dishwashers or computers as he couldn't see anything to worry about. The Kitchen sockets are through the RCD which he tested with a Megger...

Thank you for that. The lighting circuit had a breaker on it but is not on the RCD side of the board. The kitchen sockets (where I will take the spur from) are on the RCD side. Spark who came today was pretty amazed that anyone would do such a thing. Thank you once again.

Turns out our underfloor heating was attached to the kitchen lighting circuit - which explains why the breaker was tripping!! Is there any reason why I can't re-connect it via a spur off a socket, if I run a spur from a socket to a fused isolator switch and then onto the heating controller...

Fear not! The moment it wouldn't turn it on I figured there was some very amiss and well out of my comfort zone. So have graciously walked away with my limbs in tact. Thanks for your help though 831 bunny.

Yes the boilers is dead. The supply is on and the thermostat Rx unit has two LEDS - one of which is green which (according to the manual) means the boiler should be on but there's no life on the display. I've turned the boiler switch on and off a few times but nothing.

Just looked and I'm right about the box (should have done that first) but any ideas greatly appreciated. Looks like the boiler is dead unless I'm missing a trick!

Hi all. My mother in laws ecotech 831 has died and I'm just seeing if its anything obvious (it's under gtee but Valiant aren't coming to Monday and she's 80 something!) At the moment it appears to not even power up. There's a white box inbetween the mains feed and the boiler which as a...

Yes sorry - that wasn't that clear. It's The connector between the lamp and electronic dimmer unit. So I should I panic? Im just wondering at what point the house might burn down...

Hi all. The previous owner has used dimmer lights throughout the house. Each room has halogen mr16 bulbs each feed from individual electronic dimmers. Today a lamp flickered on and off today then came back on but following it there was nasty plastic burning smell. I opened the join...

Cheers Hugh.. Will do that tomorrow.

Hi all, I hope you can help.. Attached is a photo of the outside drains of our house (which I think was rebuilt by cowboys). Currently there are five pipes lead into the drain. One is lead and appears to be not used. The other are: Kitchen/Dishwasher Downstairs loo sink Main...

Mmm interesting.. Apologies I got my mcb and Rcds terminology wrong. Not all the circuits go via the RCD. Only some of the sockets go via the RCD. The rest are just MCBs on the board. There is a spare MCD on the board with nothing connected to it. Oh well - time find a friendly spark!

In case anyone was watching and wondering. They skylight has been in for about two weeks. We've had a bit of rain and so far so good!

Hey all. We've just moved house and I want to put in a new circuit in just to service a computer server and network attached storage (NAS), luckily there's a spare circuit on the distro board (new RCD type). A couple of questions. 1) If it's only going to have one socket, does it need...

Sometime last year we had to replace our washing machine which was located upstairs in the bathroom. When the guy from John Lewis came to deliver it and saw the switched connection unit he said if I cut of the plug it would invalidate the warranty... No idea if that's the case but worth...

Thanks for all the help guys. We're having the skylight replaced next week - I'll let you know!

Yes that was badly written :-) It looks like the 3rd guy could be right, but as alastairreid said would be worth cleaning the channels first.