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Hi All This is more of curiosity for myself. in our house, in the downstairs and upstairs hallway, we have/had these very old fluorescent tube lights, always hated them. Other than changing a simple light switch, I dont do any electrical work therefore I employed my trusted electrician who...

Hello All we have had a small problem, or rather an inconvenience for a while now with our central heating. we have a Vaillant ecotec pro 28, this was installed this time last year, prior to that we had a 20 year old vaillant and the problem was present with this boiler also therefore we know...

Hello wonderful people, just wanted some advice if that is ok. 3 days ago, around 9pm, we were sitting in the living room watching tv, all of the sudden we hear an MCB trip. when checked it was for the "sockets" circuit in the kitchen. we have a separate consumer unit for the kitchen as it...

Hi, i hope this is the right sub forum. we think we have a small leak on rising main, we think the leak just below the floor void in the kitchen where the rising main emerges from the concrete floor. (i know there is a void as i have previously seen this, almost like a concrete suspended floor...

Hi everyone I think for us it may be time to replace our combi boiler. Currently we have a vaillant turbomax. Not sure exactly which model. Was installed approx 15 years ago and its been bulletproof and reliable the whole time. Recently we have been having a f28 error This could happen once...

Hi Quick question, recently underwent a full kitchen refurb. This included a full rewire and the kitchen is now seperate to the rest of the house Circuits are Lighting 32a oven circuit 32a ring main The other day, i thought i was being really efficient in doing the house work, i turned on the...

good afternoon all, just wanted some advice. currently having my kitchen refurbished and we are now on the second fix phase with the kitchen going in etc. part of the refurb has been to run a new 10mm/2 cable for the electric shower, however as the electricians said at the time, the shower was...

Good Morning just after some opinions, I at no point intend to carry out work, I am just clarifying something which has been mentioned to me. early in the new year, we are having our kitchen fully refurbished, this includes a complete gut out, back to shell, rewire etc. problem 1 - ancient...

Currently in the process of having quoates from contractors to refurbish my kitchen. Size is approx 4mx3m Needs a full strip. Full rewire including new consumer unit Replaster and fit new kitchen. Going for a very basic kitchen as likely not a final home for us. Only itegration needs to be...

hi, we currently have a creda 550c electric shower, been installed best part of 8 years, never a problem. today, it seems to have developed this ever so faint buzzing noise when turned off, by that i mean, isolator is turned on but shower is off. it stops when it use but starts again when not...

hi, long time reader first time poster. today i decided to connect up some modern lights instead of fluroscent tube lights that have been installed for the past 15 years and never caused any problems. problem one. in the first room there is no ceiling rose. easy i thought. took off the tube...