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I have an Optima XM 4 zone alarm, during some renovation work, the cable to the outside bell was accidently cut, I joined it back up and the alarm has been fine since then. Yesterday my wife tried to switch the alarm off after returning to the house, she didn't get the code in, in time and...

I took 3 rad's off upstairs during decorating. shut valves both sides of the rads, All have thermo controlled valves, so took caps off and tightened the centre piece down to close off. We used the central heating with those rads off. I've put all 3 back on again, and put the thermo valves...

Hi I think I know what answer I'm gonna get, but hope I'm wrong. I've just had a guy do a job on the cheap, laying 12" ceramic floor tiles in the kitchen, He didn't lay plywood as per info I've read on previous threads on the forum. He used Flexible cement, that he mixed himself and flexible...

Is it easy to fit new central locking mechanisms, my present one is very stiff to operate lately. I've seen a complete set for sale on ebay to fit any car, the advert says easy to fit, but are they? Also if I just changed the drivers side one, as the passenger one is fine , would I be able...

I've just moved into a bungalow with a 4 zone optima xm alarm system. one zone is a breaker on the front door, the other 3 zones are back kitchen, back bedroom and living room. I want to put a PIR in the garage, 1) is it feasable to just wire into one of the other zones 2) I also have...

There is a 5 core cable on the boiler from left to right as I look at the boiler there is L Black wire N No wire fitted E Normal colour earth wire fitted E No wire fitted N Blue wire L Brown wire SL Thinner black wire What does the first black wire do? No...

Hi, daughters ford ka, has become very difficult to open the drivers side door, extremely stiff to turn the key and it's hitty miss if it opens or not, and it's much harder to operate in colder conditions. Also it does close easier than it opens. If all else fails she opens the car using the...

Hi new fault developed on my boiler, The boiler responds to commands from the programmer when I switch it to HW or CH and also for HW and CH together, it also responds to adjustments made to room thermostat. When I say 'responds, the boiler switches on and off depending on what signal...

I have a baxi solo 2 40 pf boiler for hot water and CH, The controller is a British gas Model UP1 Pump is not receiving power now and will not run, thus the boiler get's no water and cuts out. (I have proven the pump is ok) Can anyone help by giving me a series of eletrical checks to...