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Hi, I just got a quote from Banham for a new front (inner) door. I need a solid-core door with good locks, london/birmingham bar, hinge bolts etc. However, they have quoted me nearly £1500! Does anyone know of a reputable company in London who can make my door thiefproof (for the average...

Read up a couple of posts and you see the 'sounding board' principle explained. I cannot hear the flush. The ceiling, however, is very efficient at transferring sound through my floor. PIR sensor seems like another ridiculous excuse to market over-technology, and how annoying would it be if...

I ended up getting a standard pull switch from wickes for about £3. I'm a live-in landlord and it needed to get fixed quickly! Although the new pull switch is still noisy, I have noticed that it can be operated on and off without pulling all the way, thus avoiding any mechanical noise. 2...

I wonder if I put a piece of neoprene or something in between the switch housing and the ceiling if that would solve the problem?

Well firstly, happy new year to everyone! I appear to have opened the proverbial can of worms here... I could really save myself a lot of work and hassle then if I could just find a pullcord switch that is reaonably quiet and doesnt use any kind of dimming circuit. Somebody mentioned...

I would like to convert a bathroom pull-cord switch to a standard wall-flush lightswitch just outside the bathroom door. Is it possible to attach the wires that hang from the bathroom ceiling (where the pullcord mechanism has been disconnected) to some kind of junction box, and run a length...

I got it from screwfix if I recall correctly. However, this is crappy technology. It buzzes audibly in the room. I am a musician, and whenever the bathroom light is on, my amp picks up the noise.. You would think its a simple thing to make, but probably like so many things these days it will...

It is attached to the ceiling but seems sturdy enough. My bedroom is above the bathroom, so yes the sound was being amplified through my wooden floor, and this a flatshare.. so sometimes in the middle of the night I would get a loud pee-yong!!! sound from below. Its silent now so that was my...

well I know enough to ask for advice when I dont know something :wink: Thanks, it actually works now wired either way around but it BUZZES (either way around). I cant believe I bought the damn thing to get rid of a noisy switch and it makes a new different annoying sound! For those of us...

I wrote it earlier in the thread, I have red, black and yellow/green from the ceiling, which are currently connected to an old pull-cord. The current switch has 2 terminals plus earth, the new one has 4. The manual says: Make connections to the electrical supply in accordance with...

umm ok, where should I attach the other cable? And should I attach the earth?

The manual for it is here http://www.eterna-lighting.co.uk/docs/DIM250_manual.pdf Which are the quality makes?

Hi, A couple of years ago I had a boiler and shower installed. Ever since then, increasingly I can hear what sounds like rattling pipes or a kind of 'air pressure rasping' sound after the toilet cistern refills from flushing. Opening a tap also causes the pipe to rattle a bit. It appears...

Thanks for your help :lol: I will check 2moro..

Yes, without ripping holes in the ceiling (there is a room above) I am stuck with a 2/3 wire connection instead of a 5. The only reason I bought the dimmer switch was because it was the only one advertised as being quiet. Do you know of any bog-standard on/off switches that dont use the...

red, black, yellow/green. Thats all. At present they are wired into the old noisy switch which has just the 2 connections + earth. The dimmer has "in live and neutral", and "lamp out live and neutral + earth". Does this mean it needs mains connection as well?

The existing switch has only live, neutral and earth to the lamp. This is the wiring that is available from the ceiling and I dont want to rip holes in my ceiling looking for mains cabling. According to the instructions the dimmer needs live in as well as out to the lamp. I tried wiring it...

Hi. I want to replace an old pull-cord lightswitch in my bathroom that has a horrible resonant springy sound everytime its pulled. It is ridiculously loud. I searched around on the web for something QUIET and found a pull-cord dimmer which is pretty quiet and doesnt use a spring. However...