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Hi, Hoping someone can help with the following cooker/hob wiring query as I've searched the forum and can't find a definitive answer on whether I can supply multiple appliances from a single cooker circuit without installing an additional consumer unit in the kitchen. First some...

Hi, I had an additional consumer unit installed in October as part of a solar install. It's a Fusebox 6-way RCBO board with circuits for 2 x inverters and 1 x EV charger. Yesterday, the guys that fitted it returned to retrofit an SPD - which wasn't fitted at the time (probably because it was...

Hi, On Saturday morning I started draining down my system ready to do a few jobs that I'd been storing up for a while. It's a big system with 8 x double panel rads, 1 x single, and 3 x towel rails plus the hot water. Within a few hours, the system had drained enough for me to be able to do the...

Hi, I’ve got a garage which has what seems to be a bitumen felt DPC. Originally there was pointing over the DPC but over the last couple of years this has come away so the edge of the DPC is now clearly visible between the two courses of bricks all the way round the building. See photos below...

Hi, I have a detached double garage with an existing electrical supply. The consumer unit has two MCBs that are used for lighting circuits (internal and external) and two 32A MCBs. One is spare and the other is used for a ring main. I now want to do two things: install two extra sockets in the...

Hi, Can anyone offer any advice on this shower problem please? Until this weekend I had the following shower setup in our house. We have two showers, one in the main bathroom upstairs and one in our en-suite (also upstairs). Both are Aqualisa mixer showers fed from a traditional...

Hi, There seems to be conflicting advice on this forum as to whether or not artificially softened water should be used in a central heating system. It strikes me that softened water would be best as it avoids the issue of limescale build up within the boiler. But lots of people on here...

Hi, I changed over to a sealed system about 4 weeks ago and have held off putting any inhibitor in the system until I can be certain that everything is working ok. First question is: will I have done any harm running the system without inhibitor for about six weeks (which is what it will...

Hi, When I convert my CH to a sealed system, I want to also sort out some dodgy motorised valves. I've got two Honeywell 4043 2-port valves (one 28mm one for CH and one 22mm one for HW) and both seem to be letting water through even when closed. On each valve, the motor can be seen/heard...

Hi, Our heating system has a number of little problems, including: - some rads get a bit warm when hot water (only) is selected on the controls - a couple of rads do not get as warm as the others when CH is on - air can be heard in the system (bubbling noise if you listen to...

Hi, The house we bought a few months ago has a boiler which was installed in around 2000/2001 and radiators which (I guess) date from when the house was built in the early 60s. It is a standard open vent system. My first concern is that the system may not currently have enough inhibitor in...

Hi, Is there a simple amateur (i.e. me plus a multimeter) way to test of a bathroom has any supplementary bonding? There's nothing visible, but the bathroom was only refitted about 2 years ago so maybe there is some bonding going on under the floor..... :?: I have got a positive...

Hi, I have now finished converting all my unearthed metal light switches to plastic as talked about at //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=827868 Interestingly, it turned out that for two of the rooms (the bathroom and downstairs WC) we actually did have a T&E cable serving the...

Hi, Our central heating system previously had no room stat. It just relied on TRVs. So, last weekend, I installed a wireless Honeywell room stat/programmer. This involved running two lengths of twin core cable from the central heating junction box to the wireless receiver unit - one...

Hi, I am just in the process of replacing all the metal (i.e. brass and chrome effect) light switches in our house with plastic ones because most of our five lighting rings do not have an earth. I was also planning to replace the metal patress screws with nylon ones. Two questions for...

Hi, As per an earlier thread, I have got two shower pumps in my loft which are connected to a standard double 13amp socket. The pumps are rated at 2.1A and 2.4 A respectively. I talked previously about putting an RCD faceplate on this socket to get round the fact that the socket is fed...

Hi, I've just discovered a card from Transco on top of my gas meter which points out that the gas pipework has no equipotential earth bonding. This was obviously issued prior to my buying this house a month ago and was left there by the previous owner. I've already mentioned the slightly...

Hi, The house we moved into about a month ago has two shower pumps in the loft – a 2 bar one for the ensuite and a 1.5 bar one for the main bathroom. They get their electrical supply via a standard double 13amp socket in the loft. I had assumed that this 13amp double socket was spurred off...

Hi, At the weekend, I had to drain down our (open vented) central heating system. When I refilled it, I bought a bottle of Fernox and added a slug of it every 20 seconds or so as the header tank was refilling - and hence (I presume) as the header tank was in turn refilling the rads. By...

Hi, We are about to move into a house which has a flat roof of approx 12m x 3m over the garage and a downstairs bedroom. The existing felt roof is at the end of its life - it's had to be patched at various times over the past few years and also (at least) two panels of the existing chipboard...