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    Best heat insulating wall vents for combi boiler central heating

    Hey everyone, we have a combi boiler which heats our radiators. Lovely. The only thing is we have big vents around the house which are just gaps in the brick, with an air brick on the outside and a sheet of metal on the inside. You can really feel how much colder it is where the vents are. So...
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    Wiring up 4" Extractor Fan with Timer & Humidity sensor just for Humidity mode

    Hello - I have this 4" Extractor Fan with a Timer and Humidistat circuit board in it - there are 2 adjuster screws (pots) and one is for timer, one controls humidistat. For using timer you need 3 wires, 1 neutral, and 2 Lives (1 switched live, 1 permanant live) - the wires I have coming into the...
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    New Kitchen extractor fan for condensation

    I'm looking for advice. I have an old 1930's kitchen, single brick outer wall two sides. It gets cold in the winter and when cooking I get condensation. I'm starting to get a damp smell in the room. I do have an under cabinet fan heater in the room to take the chill off, and I only have a...
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    External hole for extractor fan and materials

    Electrician is fitting an extractor fan to bathroom ceiling but as he doesn't know much about the actual exit hole for the extractor so I have asked a brickie to drill the hole at the gable end of the house, its a cavity wall so the hole will be quite deep The electrician will install the...
  5. eveares

    Pull cord fused spur - Does such a thing exist?

    One of family members lives in a council flat, and in the bathroom there is a extractor fan what is always on, what has a pull cord to toggle between the low speed trickle and high speed modes. Now there is a unswitched fused spur in the corner of the bathroom wall labelled fan, what I assume...
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    Manrose extractor replaced, doesn't work

    My Manrose XF100LV extractor (was in flat when we bought 4 yrs ago), started to rattle and became quite noisy. Today it died. I bought an identical replacement. Husband fixed it up and wired as before (instructions enclosed seem to apply to several models, none look same as ours). All looks...
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    Replacing ceiling mounted extractor fan

    Hello there, The ceiling mounted extractor fan in the bathroom does not turn on anymore and I am looking for a possible replacement. The fan is 'glued' to the ceiling as per the pictures below and it seems that any removable parts are on the side of the ceiling which i cannot access without...
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    Humidity and Odour Extraction from Bathroom

    I currently have a an in line duct fan controlled by a humidistat in my bathroom and it works well, extracting the air when I have a shower. Unfortunately the humidistat cannot tell when there is an unpleasant odour in there and I have been looking for another way to switch the fan on for 5...
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    Extractor fan terminating in loft

    Hi all, Our extractor fan in the en-suite stopped working and upon investigation i found that it isnt being vented to the outside. What had caused it to stop working is that the fan has literally been screwed on to the ceiling and that's it, insulation has then been put over it. As soon as i...
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    Oven hood

    Hi. We had new oven hood installed. I have notice when I'm cooking the wall behind the oven next to oven hood is wet. Is this normal??
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    Help with cable size - not using FCU -hood

    Hello everyone, There is a kitchen extractor fan with the wire exposed and unattached (photo attached) There is no booklet. By looking at the photo, would you help me by saying what cable size is that? I need to extend it by 9m to connect it to another socket( not FCU) Is it safe to connect...
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