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My mum has two kitchen ceiling lights that use 28w 2D lamps with 2 pin fittings. Her eyesight is getting worse and it would be helpful to fit a brighter lamp but the 38w ones are 4 pin and the ballast inside the fitting will need upgrading. Can I just buy 38w ballasts and 4 pin sockets to...

Does anyone know where nails like these can be purchased ? The closest thing I can find on Google is an American brand called Maze, but they don't have the same domed head. Thanks John

I've got an old twin striplight fitting in a garage which wasn't working. I replaced the blown 1.25 amp fuse inside the fixture with a 3 amp one and now one of the 5 foot T12 tubes is working. I tried swapping them round to check it was the tube and not the circuit. I read somewhere that...

My neighbour's immersion heater has stopped working. It appears to have 2 Sunvic thermostats - a VKL 2201 and a VKL 2251. There is power getting to the live terminal of the 2201, but the wire linking it to the 2251 seems to be dead. I presume from this that the 2201 is faulty; if so is it OK...

I've just replaced an old copper hot water cylinder with an unvented system made by UV Gold. The old one was small and only had one immersion heater; the newer one is larger and has two - one near the base and one higher up. This is our only source of hot water. The exisiting supply is 2.5mm...

Our underground water supply pipe is 3/4" black plastic and it crosses a stream on its way to the house, via a small bridge where it is fixed to a suporting steel I beam. It froze up in the recent cold weather. One reason for this is that it has frozen in the past and burst, and has been...

I need to replace a kerosene boiler but there is mains gas within about 50m of the property. I'm trying to find out the cost per unit of heat for the two fuels so I can work out how econmoical it would be to get the gas in ? Also any views on whether oil or gas boilers are more reliable ...