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We had a new kitchen last year and the lights are now Halogen downlights. Whenever a bulb goes the all the lights in the house go out, which is apparently down to some kind of surge. The main fuse box is the old type which requires the wire replacing etc. and obviously all the lights are on the...

I posted a problem last week when my shower was losing pressure when the temp was increased (still not fixed, but bearable for now). Over the last couple of days, when the toilet is flushed and the cistern is refilling, as it nears the end of the fill it starts to make a very loud foghorn...

Since yesterday, when the shower is switched on, it started running too cold from the setting it has been on. When the temperature is turned up the water gets hotter but the flow of water slows the more you increase it. I realise that this is probably some kind of pressure problem yet...

Have bought a new light fitting and when I have taken the old one down their was an earth wire connected (old fitting is metal). The new fitting is primarily wood and only has a block for 2 wires to be connected. The new fitting also has the double insulated sign on it, a small square within a...

I've just fitted a new halogen floodlight outside and when I've turned it on and its been on for a minute or 2 smoke starts coming out from the unit. The smoke is coming from the unit where the bulb is, and not from where the wiring is and appears to be possibly from the rubber seal around the...

Fitted new thermostat etc and now when I put the heating on the theremostat control is wrong way round. ie, if i turn temp down on room stat heating comes on and if I turn temperature on the stat up it turns heating off. Have I just connected wires the wrong way round ???? Might seem a silly...

Breezer, you probably remember me and my thermostat from a couple of weeks back. Fitted new thermostat, though now nothing seems to work, no hot water etc.. The clock timer that switches heating on and off etc is also not working. Have checked fuse and this is OK. Is everything...

Got myself a new thermostat as per message lower down, taken the old one off and sussed the wiring out etc. It does say with new one that it must be earthed and their is what appears to be an earthing point inside it, though their doesn't appear to be an earth wire in the old one. Am I right...

Can anyone please tell me how straightforward changing the central heating thermostat is ?? Is it just a case of removing the old one and wiring up a new one the same or is there more to it than that. Thermostat doesn't appear to be reading the temp. correctly and was thinking of replacing...

CH heating doesn't come on when turned on, but if run hot water from taps etc it will then come on for half an hour or so. Its as though it comes on to replace the hot water used from the taps, though it does heat up the radiators etc as normal, but only remains on for half hour at the most...

When heating is turned on lots of buzzing coming from diverter valve ( this is a grey square box, Siemens, fitted close to the pump ) and heating takes between 30mins and an hour to fire up. Is the problem likely to be with the diverter valve or the pump ??? and any solutions ?? Thanks...