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Hi All, I’ve got an Ion16 installed on a garage and have decided to fit a wired sounder due to crazy battery prices for the wireless one. I’ve wired it up as I think is correct but I have an issue where by the sounder goes off as soon as I connect the +ve hold off to the panel (red wire). The...

Evening guys, I've got a consumer unit installed in a barn, it's a metal casing but has a plastic front. I'm planning to add a couple of circuits in the barn and also change the 6mm twin and earth on the catenary that's currently feeding the barn to an SWA that runs underground, RCD protected...

Hi, When we moved into our house we found that the water pressure was ridiculously high, it meant hozelock fittings wouldn't stay on hoses, the shower was lethal and there was a bit of water hammering. I fitted a Honeywell PRV to the 28mm pipe right next to the incoming stop cock, this sorted...

So we're doing quite a bit of work to a 16th Century farmhouse, part of this is to redo the kitchen, I've had the floor boards up in the bedroom above today to start sorting out the wiring and have found some rather worrying looking joists. My main concern was with this one, as the original...

Morning all, We live in a three floor property, the current system is setup with a zone valve for each floor, this is then controlled through a three way timer and TRVs, there is no master thermostat, it relies on the boiler stat for starting/stopping the boiler. The boiler is a Worcester Oil...

Evening all, We've currently got a 15 year old Worcester Oil Heatslave 18/25 Combi, it's working fine but we're about to replace the kitchen and in order to make the kitchen work properly we either need to move the boiler by about 12" or fit a smaller one. So I'm thinking that if we're moving...

Evening all, We've recently moved into a new house and have been finding that at certain times of day we get quite a bit of odour in the bathroom, the soil pipe comes through the external wall and then is boxed in to the toilet, I stripped the boxing off and found the odour is coming from...

We've recently moved and as a result a lot of my garage stuff is in an outbuilding until the garage is sorted. I'd like to up the security of it so want a really heavy duty, almost angle grinder proof staple and hasp to fit to the door. I've already fitted some hinge bolts, but now the other...

HI all, I'm in the process of getting my extension signed off by building control and the only thing outstanding that's a problem is they're stating that the lintels above my garage doors (normal catnic cavity wall lintel) need to be fireproofed, even though they're on the outside of the...

HI Guys, I've got an Ecotec 837 being controlled by a VRC430, which is ok, but there's times when I go away for a day or two when it would be really useful to turn the heating off/on remotely. Do Vaillant do any sort of system that allows for internet control yet? Or is there a better sort of...

I'm doing a bit of a feasibility study for one of my sites at work, the admin block is currently heated by electric convector heaters, i've worked out this is costing us approximately £14k/year. As the site is a sewage treatment works we have a plentiful supply of methane, so i'm considering if...

I'm jsut looking to install my window boards, but can't seem to find a pre cut/rounded one of the right depth, the window recess is 220mm or so deep, so i really need a board thats about 240ish so that it has the bits that protrude each side. Should I just cut it from a sheet of MDF or should i...

I've got the following consumer unit, which i'd like to use as part of my extension, its a split load but with a single RCD, every circuit needs RCD protection as they're not more than 50mm deep in the walls. I'm not sure how to add a second RCD, is it ok to just put two cables into the main...

Hopefully someone here will be able to guide me, as I haven't bought the alarm yet I don't have the installers manual, so i'm not sure about some of the cabling needs, and i'm trying to run all my cables now before my plasterer comes next week. I'm planning the following system: Premier 48...

I'm just in the middle of running the cabling for the alarm, and have found one of the routes is a bit tricky, i've got one bit of cable in (8core) and i'm now wondering if I can run this to the one PIR and then from that PIR to the next? instead of having to run another cable. Is this ok...

Just trying to sort out which alarm panel to buy, and its down to the Texecom premier 24 or 48, the main difference being the 48 supports several areas, the 24 only one. I want to be able to alarm the house, the garage and the workshop, each area will have its own RKP, and i'd like to have...

Before I plasterboard the ceiling in my garage I need to put some insulation in, there's a bedroom above. What would you recomend? I was intending to stuff the voids between the joists with rockwool type insulation and then a 1" layer of kingspan prior to putting on the pink plasterboard...

I've recently found theres a few alarm cables already installed in my house, yet no alarm was ever fitted, 3 cables appear in a box in the understairs cupboard, found the end of one of them in the loft, obviously for a bell box, but havent managed to find the other two, I'm guessing they might...

Ive got a typical 2 way switched system for the lighting in my hall, i'd like to add a occupancy detector to this, i've got a CP Electronics EBDSPIR, IS there any reason why the switched live from this and the switched live from the 2 way switches can't be in parallel, so either the switches or...

I’m looking to install an alarm system on my house. It’s a 3 bed property, lounge, kitchen, conservatory, utility room, large garage with roller doors each end, and then a workshop out building. I’d like everything alarmed, and a separate keypad in both the workshop and garage so that these...