Search results

need some materials advice for a specific problem. need to put a shelf across a 700mm span , 600mm deep alcove, to support 120kg uniform load. solid internal house breeze block wall on 2 sides and back sound trivial, ... but, there is an immovable object below the shelf that means I cannot...

hi, I have a plastic soil pipe internal to the house exiting through the roof through flashing into an external soil vent projecting around a metre above the roof. The pipe is reachable in the loft, albeit a bit of a headroom squeeze as its near to the external wall. The external vent is right...

enforcer panel, self installed, worked perfectly 18th months. have 2x wireless entry arming station pads at different doors. entered through one of these today , attempted to use tag (failed) then code (also failed) then external and internal sounders went off with an alarm from the nearest PIR...

hi was trying to think like a burglar about how I would defeat my alarm. we don't always go out taking all bunches of keys with us (we have loads, for cars, bikes, caravans, it would be a lot of metal to carry) and some of those bunches have prox tags on them. hence, there is quite often a bunch...

hi having trouble getting any info out of retailers (including the often-recommended Max@mapp). I want a system with app based alerting (over internet) AND sms based alerting (for when my receiving devices is simple GSM only - might be in poor reception area). Happy for the internet app comms to...

hi hoping if i give you guys some requirements i can get some steer. after recent burglaries in neighboring houses i need to put in a system for deterrence and piece of mind. the local method appears to be (as we are a quiet area with plenty of non-overlooked gardens) is destroy largest rear...

hi I have a newly professionally fitted kitchen, one unit is a tall builtin freezer unit. we originally put an AEG freezer in it, but it was incredibly noisy, we were convinced it was dodgy, so it has just been swapped for a Liebherr, and the noise is still there. The noise is NOT the usual...

just bought a hudson reed sloane vertical. supplier website clearly shows flow and return BOE. Rad even supplied with the plastic to-be-removed plugs in those positions. on inspection, there are no internal baffles in the pipe across the bottom. thus if fitted BOE (as most would do with a...

hi I have a danfoss two port zone valve with a danfoss HP-22 actuator. the output microswitch is sticking on (pump / boiler being activated by it when zone is inactive). This exact same thing has happened several times before over the years, I used to have a BG service contract on the system...

can someone sanity check for me as I am troubleshooting a zone that is coming on when it really should be off. It is NOT the head or anything electrical, the motor is moving freely and as and when expected etc. the issue is, the valve body is be open regardless of the position of the spindle...

hi I have a "your loop" energy monitor on my electrical supply. Its been pretty good at helping me find things that are using energy in my house. It shows the at-rest load of my house (everything switched off / unplugged that can be) around 350W constantly, which is working out around £1 a day...

hi I have a back to wall pan in a downstairs cloak room, soil pipe comes out horizontally into a flexible connector that goes down into floor behind the pan underneath the concealed cistern. This particular pan has been installed for about 10 years, on and off have noticed smells, but its...

hi I have a DPS pandora heatbank 2005 vintage with DHW plate heat exchanger driven by pump from the heatbank water, primary coil fed from boiler, secondary coil fed from solar thermal, sealed pressurised boiler circuit (expansion built into the top of the pandora) , S-plan plus.With my previous...