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Hello Chaps, My worcester bosch 35HE condensing combi supposedly has a 'keep hot' facility where the immediate use hot tap water is kept hot so when the hot tap is turned on, hot water is supplied quickly. However ours takes ages to supply hot water at the taps, we're really wasting water...

I have a wall socket that is fed from a single FT&E cable, so I presume it must be a spur or a radially fed socket. I need to fit a socket in the chimney breast 3 foot from this socket to supply a 2kw electric fire. It is rumoured (down the pub) that if I fit a fused outlet (next to and...

Hello Team, I have moved into a house that has a prefab double garage built 15 meters away from the house. This garage has no gutters or drainage so the rainwater just runs off the roof and pours onto the garden either side. The ground here is now in a right mess. Has anyone got any ideas...

My tiled roof is 80 years old, has been surveyed twice and they say its got lots of life left in it... However, the backpointing (or sometimes called tiering) has all dissappeared now, so when it rains its OK, but when its windy and raining, some water is being blown inside onto the joists...

Hello Team, Does anyone know where you can buy a long-handled 'key' for isolating the new united utilities 'outside in the pavement' water main valve? The valve actuator is a 17mm green hexagonal hex-head. I imagine its about two foot long with a 'T' handle, but I can't find one even on the...

Hello Team, Does anyone know where I can get a new grill element for a Creda Europa Solar Plus cooker, model 48145S? Only half has gone but I have been quoted £150 for a new element !!! This new element comes with all the housing, etc and seems a real rip-off. Can anyone help? Cheers

I'm trying to move a socket that is mounted in a skirting board up into the wall above. However the wall is made of plaster/'hair' and lath. it seems to be too thick to use a dry-lining box, but I cannot see how to use a metal backbox as there's nothing but fresh air in the space behind the...

Has anyone any comments on the effectiveness of that thermal spray-on stuff that bonds to the inside of your old tile roof, thus insulating, rain-proofing, holding tiles, etc (according to the adverts). It seems a good idea; but what about letting the wood battens 'breathe' ? My 70 year old...

Hello Again, Can someone give a quick answer? 3 sockets on a radial circuit from the consumer unit, ie one cable leaving the Mcb looped into each socket last socket has one cable only, (ie not a dual cabled ring main): What size MCB 16A or 32A?

Hello, Have searched the site to no avail so must post... My house has two ring mains of sockets plus two radial circuits of sockets. If I replace the CU with a split load, should the radial circuit MCBs be 16A or 32A as per the rings? Cheers

Hello Team, I'm about to upgrade my fuseboards to split load RCD jobs. My house is quite 'long' and has a fuseboard at the front door supplying the front house sockets/lights and a fuseboard at the back of the house in the kitchen which supplies the rear ringmain and lights. An electrical...

Hello All, My new (old) house has a glowworm hideaway boiler. There are no separate controls for the hot tap water and the central heating, ie, switch the system on and the boiler heats the tap water and the radiator water. The thermostat just cuts the heating circulating pump in and out as...

Hello All, I am moving my existing sockets up from the skirting board to the wall. At what height should these new sockets be? In new houses they seem to be about 18" from the floor now. Can anyone help?