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    Fitting Bamboo Hardwood Floor - Help !

    Ok Ive prepped the existing floor (8ft x 8ft) and have screw secured 12mm plywood to the existing wood floor, so all nice and level Taken all the skirting boards off. acclimatised the boards which are 96cm long x 9.5cm wide and 15mm thick. Now I really need to know whether to nail or glue...
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    Accenta Gen4 - Siren not working

    funny you say that i just ordered 10 1 amp and 10 1.5 amp 20mm glassfuses will arrive later this week, am happy to work through a plan with you. this alarm talk, hold off and triggers does nt mean much to me i just transposed from the old panel to the new, and maybe the four wires hot mislabled...
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    Accenta Gen4 - Siren not working

    Ive read the manual properly, what you've told me is on page 9 of the engineers guide. And it refers to the bell + - connection on the board as i stated. Thats the easy bit The difficulty here is was having 4 wires coming into the board and not knowing for sure how to connect them in the...
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    Accenta Gen4 - Siren not working

    Thanks and Yes i have the manua,l read the enginers guide, thats how i set it all up. As mentioned previously i cant test the siren wire, but it was working fine on the old system, which would suggest its not at fault. Also i should be able to test the outputs withput a bell wirte, using a 12v...
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    Accenta Gen4 - Siren not working

    Alarm, thanks and good point, would n't be too popular with my neighbours !! So how I troubleshoot this further using the info i supplied. I cant reaqlly check the bell wire as its routed under floorboards, joists etc. However it was working upto the replace of control panels, 4 wires, 2 to...
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    Accenta Gen4 - Siren not working

    Thanks for that, but its only showing 3.5v not 13v between Bell+ and Bell- regardsless of whether the bell wire, whether the alarm is being switched between on and off on the test outputs of the engineer program mode. However as mentioned earlier the strobe output on the board for example...
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    Accenta Gen4 - Siren not working

    Having had an omnicron 7000 with 30 year old technology I decided to Installed a Accenta gen4 alarm, plus a remote keypad. Labeled all the wires off the old alarm and transfered to the accenta. Im no expert at alarms, but thought id give it a go. All works well, the pir, door contacts etc...
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    Filling the gaps !

    Hi, have reboarded my ceiling to go over old artex. However in some places i have upto an inch gaps 10mm deep approx running between boards and also between the boards and the walls not being quite square. and too think to fix slivers of board onto I have pva ed the boards and was going to...
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    Notifable or not ?

    Come on all you gurus, 24 views and no replies. Should this be notifiable or not, I've submitted building regs etc for the building work, and assumed that I would not need to notify as am only adding a light circuit to the new divided ding room areas and moving a surface mounted plug socket from...
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    Notifable or not ?

    Hi, recently had my dining room partition wall partially removed to form a kitchen diner. Kitchen units, sink etc are still in the same place etc, and dining room is still a dining area as such, just opened up thats all. However the original Dining area was quite big so it was split into 2 with...
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    Bosch worcester bosch 28cd1 - pilot light out

    Anyone any ideas, pressure guage says 4 on it looks okay and is on the outside of the boiler. the two electrodes are sparking but not lighting, cant tell if gas is coming out or not. could it be that the heater matrix is covered in muck ? I took off the cover and then the cover with a seal...
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    Bosch worcester bosch 28cd1 - pilot light out

    Hi wonder if anyone can help. Got up this morning for a shower and no hot water, had a look at the boiler and the fgreen on light is on but the central heating and hot water lights are flashing slowly, but there is no pilot flame on. Removed the front cover and i can see after holding down the...
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    Replacing Dormer Flat Roof

    I suspect it may well be the original flat roof, when the house was built if so its 30 years old. Its a chalet style house and the dormer is one side of the roof pitch. I was thinking of just ripping off the old felt which I presume would reveal the rotted plywood etc. However the plywood may...
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    Replacing Dormer Flat Roof

    Just got back after 2 weeks holiday, and found loads of mould growth in the ceiling in the bathroom. Climbed to the top of the dormer roof, and the edge of the felt where it turns over the roof edge is full of holes and the roof itself all up and down, and after standing on it i Suspect the...
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    Matching pointing - cement colour

    so in answer to my original question, could i get this colour mortar by using normal cement eg which is grey and mixing it with red and yellow sand for instance to get this "natural" colour or will i get orange mortar :shock:
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    Matching pointing - cement colour

    Thanks noseall, Good tip on wetting down the existing mortar to compare colours. I was thinking of getting some white cement and some browny yellow building sand. However having gone round 3 building merchants todays none of which have white cement. Do'nt really want to use grey cement as no...
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    Matching pointing - cement colour

    I'm replacing 3 split constituted yorkstone style bricks and plan to take them out today and replace them with 3 new stone bricks. However i would like to make this repair to blend in well with existing stone work, for which the cement is a very light brown almost the same colour as the stone...
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    Electric shower wont stop !!

    turned water at mains as a temp measure already, but i suspect there must be some type of valve in the shower that may have failed ?
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    Electric shower wont stop !!

    Can anyone help, i have an electric Triton electric shower, which has been working fine. However went to switch it off this morning and even though the power is off, the cold water is still coming through the shower and won't stop, has anyone any suggestions ?
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    Replacement of house fusebox with new MCB

    House was built 30 years ago, regards the age of the wiring for info. So in response to the £350 this is reasonble then, if so fair enough i'll not bother ringing around for loads of quotes, thanks
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