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Im no electrician but I have had a guy wire up an 8kw rated electric powered central heating boiler and it is apparently wired on a seperate circuit, so why does it keep tripping the whole house? It does not trip the MCB rated at 32 by the way that it is apparently wired to. I live in Spain.

I would like to paint the floorboards in a bedroom which already have what looks like a stain type varnish on them. However I do not want to rub them down and was wondering if I could paint straight over the top? If so can anyone recommend a good paint for the job. I should add that I am not...

I have an old victorian cottage with low ceilings which I want to sell. The lounge ceiling is looking a bit tired and is bulging a little in one or two places and cracking quite a lot in others. If you push on the ceiling you can here the joists creaking above in the bedroom and there has been a...

I need to paint the ceiling in my shower room which has been re-plastered. The ceiling is low and is obviously going to collect a lot of moisture. Will a normal emulsion do it?

Im fixing a dado to run up the stairs. First it runs straight along a wall into a corner before it then runs up the stairs on another wall. If it was just running straight along two walls I could just do a simple 45 degree cut for a corner but the corner cut I need is obviously on a 45 and...

Is the circulating pump for the hot water as well as the central heating? I have just changed my programmer from a danfoss to a sunvic and at the moment I can only get the boiler to come on when I hit the hot water button on the programmer. The sunvic is meant to be able to fit straight on...

The boiler fires up but shuts down after a few minutes. Therefore, radiators do not heat up. I have a tank upstairs with a grundfos 15-50 pump next to it and a honeywell valve?(silver metal box with an arm on it) above that. This morning I turned the speed dial on the pump to its highest...

My gas boiler fires up when switched on via the programmer and runs for about 4 minutes before shutting down. None of the radiators get warmed up at all. It will fire up on its own from time to time but keeps shutting down after a couple of minutes. Any ideas?