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I currently have a double oven fed from a 45A MK cooker control unit with integrated 13 amp socket. The CCU is fed by a 10mm2 cable and protected by an RCD and 32A MCB about 8m from the CCU. I’m planning my new kitchen and have chosen the appliances. The gas hob will change to an induction hob...

Hi, Currently got the timber floor up in my ground floor flat as it is being refurbished. I discovered that the gas supply comes into the building through the front of my flat in steel pipe, running in the floor space. It runs to my meter then continues not only off to the other 3 flats but...

My mother just had an external pir security light fitted to the house. As far as I can tell the electrician has taken a feed directly from the fuse box. Not sure if it is on its own fuse or on an existing lighting circuit. Can anyone tell me if regs. require an isolation switch or not?

I noticed a bit of water dripping from the bottom of my Baxi Barcelona. I took off the outer casing and removed the outer cover of the air box, this exposes the fan and condensate trap chamber. The water is dripping from the side manifold seal down the o/s of the heat exchanger and has...

The house I'm looking at buying has a gas meter halfway along the back outside wall about 6 inches off the ground, but its not in a box. I asked the owner about it and he said that it has always been like that and it is fine, but I asked a local heating company and they said it has to be in a...

The pump in my system boiler has suddenly started making a variable whooshing noise like you get after a fill when the water has lots of air in it and you can hear the pump cavitation. Infact it sounds more like a dishwasher than a heating pump. I'm pretty sure there is no air in it. It is...

This morning my daughter turned on the TV (took it out of standby) and it tripped the RCD. I isolated the TV and managed to reset the RCD but whenever I plug in the TV, which is a 37" Toshiba LCD TV, after about 5 seconds it trips the RCD again. The TV is 16 months old and still under...

I've got a Baxi Barcelona but recently it has had a few ignition lockouts. The condensate trap is clean, the spark and sensing electrodes look quite serviceable. I only once managed to get it to lockout while I was watching it and it had about five attempts at igniting and then locked...

I've had a Neff oven for 7 years now. I'm on my 4th set of door hinges and yet again I'm just about to order another set as the door doesn't shut tightly against the seal anymore. Neff tell me that I'm about the only person in the entire world that has ever had a problem with the oven door...

I was considering extending my kitchen by adding a conservatory of approximately 15m2. This would entail removing most of the existing kitchen back wall. Unfortunately I found that there are all sorts of building regs regarding this which as I understand it require one to make up the...

Just replaced the PCB on my Baxi Barcelona System boiler and they have made some changes to the board jumpers. On the old board there were two red jumpers which I'd removed to get the full 100k Btu/h output when required. The new board has a red jumper, two blue jumpers and a yellow one...

I have a Baxi Barcelona System boiler that is now 6 years old (I think that is pretty good going actually). Anyway, I've had most of the problems that others have had, lockouts, melted ignition electrodes etc. etc., but now I'm getting a strange noise from the boiler BEFORE it ignites...