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Just for the record: I bought a house in the country, with a Worcester kerosene (Paraffin-oil) boiler about 10 years old. I did the calculation that I had more bedrooms than people and decided that a water meter was a sensible option. Nobody told me that water meters incorporate a non return...

Be warned, fail to keep the mini-expansion vessel pressurised and face a £ three-figure heating engineer bill. As I did after acquiring a Worcester Bosch kerosene boiler along with a new-to-me house: At the tail end of last winter's heating season, I think I shot myself in the foot. With more...

I live in a modest detached bungalow. Originally it had two front rooms and two back rooms. One of the front rooms was a "parlour" probably kept for best, with an open fire. The other a general living room with food being cooked upon a small range. Between the two was a twin flue chimney...

200mm is the length from my wrist to my finger-tips. I do hope this "dispute" is not in my borough and being paid for by my council tax. Technically it would nice for a length of narrow gutter collect the rain lashing down onto the slates and so-called-balcony doors. If the wounded pride of...

To recap - two qualified electricians fitted a "garage" consumer unit extension to my 1960s designed circuitry; including a nice new earth rod as the supply is "TT" :- as in Japan, two overhead wires supply the electricity and the home owner is expected to supply the earthing. Unfortunately...

Many thanks flameport, you have convinced me that I need a second (professional) opinion. [Mind you the guy who fixed the extra earth to my rising main is NICEIC registered - In my life time I have had disagreements with 5 so called professionals, where it turned out I was right and they were...

Yes the first picture, to which I linked is from some sort of electrical training web site and it comes complete with the annotation. The ELCB in my bungalow has a thinnish black (!) wire that loops out of the fuse box into the bottom of the VOELCB and then goes through the wall where it...

To correct the above link, the old circuit inside the house could be protected by something like this: ????

The wiring in my bungalow was originally installed circa 1970. It is relatively simple and I understand it: A two wire overground supply (TT) passes through a modern meter and then through an Voltage Operated Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker before branching off to wire fuse type Wylex fuse box...