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I managed to blow the fuse in our intruder alarm yesterday while moving a PIR (we don't have the engineer code for the system, so I couldn't power it down without the alarm going off). Now I had been meaning to check over the alarm system for some time, to see if, like everything else in the...

I rent a metal clad, mostly timber lined workshop building just outside the boundary of this property. The supply used to be connected into the neighbours garden workshop but I dismantled this supply a while back. I now need to connect the workshop to the supply from this property. There is an...

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Sliced the spade through the outer sheath of some SWA while digging it up in order to reposition it around the garden. There is a narrow flap still joined at one end, about 2 inches long, that peeled back. Can it be made good? I don't want to have to joint it or run a whole new length... I...

Had 2 nuisance trips since the new CU, thought that it was an issue with the garage circuit until yesterday, when I noticed after the second trip that the RCD was making a buzzing/arcing noise only when the hob is on. It's literally only 2 years old, a halogen one that is made for John Lewis by...

My sister's old BS3036 CU has now gone and the new dual RCD is installed. All of the 1mm and 1.5mm previously went into one 6amp fuse. There are from memory 6 t&e and one pair of single + earth. Bearing in mind this is an average, 2 bedroom ex council place it seemed excessive to have so...

Want to get one of those old style doorbells that goes "BBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGGG" instead of "Bing Bong" or some silly tune, for the parents; as Dad in particular is getting fairly mutton. It should preferably be one that I can rig up to a bell transformer instead of batteries...

Friends have a bathroom light that is in the form of a globe, with a plastic base attaching it to the ceiling, and the bulb has gone. There is only one screw into the ceiling, and so any attempts to twist it result in the whole fitting turning, and any attempts to pull it downwards away from the...

Found this shortly after moving in a few years ago, supplying the shower room extractor. One core has been stripped halfway out to go across to a taped up con block as a permanent live... The other two cores, one of which is of course the earth, have been used as switched live and neutral...

The plumber installing our new shower room has made extensive use of plastic speedfit elbows. This is not a problem in the loft or airing cupboard, where I can bond across from the old pipework to the new, and to the top of the shower tails in the loft. BUT he has also used one on a tail for...

My Sister has an old but good condition metal MK Sentry CU, apart from sorting out some of the wiring and changing some MCBs to the correct ratings it is fine and I would rather not have it changed. There are some RCBOs but no overall RCD protection and no space for it. Would it be acceptable...

...a letter from the PRS drops through the door. They want me to pay them money so that I can listen to Radio 2 in the office in my house? Ridiculous. X(

Recommissioned the heating a couple of weeks ago, just before I went off on hols. As we had done some work on it over the summer, lowering a radiator and replacing two others, I comprehensively bled all the radiators as the system filled. Just had time to test it for a few hours, to find that...

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As I sell memory backup batteries for fruit machines, generally the Varta Mempac variety, I am often asked to supply similar batteries for heating and hot water controllers and boilers. I wondered if there was a list somewhere of which voltage battery is used in specific applications, and...

Hi all, Pointed the way by the Welsh Wizard. As I have an interest in things electrical I was happy to have a look, and very pleasantly surprised at the wealth of information here. I will be back soon. :)