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My brother and I changed over a hot water cylinder today. It was in the most awkward place you can imagine. It was right in the corner of the loft and the only way to access the nuts is to crawl on the joists and doing squats like you're about to go for a dump. My knees are gone, my back...

Ray Big thank you once again for the Salus it500 i cant wait to review it for you, Again massive big up to the courier i was in my bed sleeping at 7.10 boy called the house i pied it but he noticed the van in the drive and called my mob number chucked clothes on and collected my wee parcel, i...

Ok can anyone shed any light on this. It's an intermittent problem I've got with my alpha he cb33 condensing combi. In January it started tripping the rcd on the main fuseboard. Gave alpha a call to send engineer out to resolve the problem. He noticed the flue stat was sparking out on statup...

Hello, I had a leak from my combination valve and had a plumber replace it with a relience one a (3 bar / 8 bar unit). However now the temperature of the cold water is high(hot) unless i run off a lot of water. How do i get the cold water back to being cold again? do i need to call the plumber...

My bleeding car dies every year. Bought a 1.4 Astra 2 years ago. It was 10 years old an had about 56k on the clock so seemed like a snatch. Not long after buying it emissions warning light comes on and car start misfiring like a good un. Called rac and suggested maybe just needed Ngk spark...

And you know what that means? Yep - slightly offbeat poetry. Well, doggerel mostly. Lets start off with this. The sexual life of the camel Is stranger than anyone thinks. At the height of the mating season He tries to bugger the sphinx. But the sphinx's posterior sphincter Is all clogged by...

Hi all, i was advised on CAG by a member of this forum, he said that you guys may be able to help me. boiler greenstar 28i condensing boiler basically today the gas went off so i topped up and rebooted boiler, everything was fine and we went out. When we came home the boiler was off flashing...

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I pretty much got scaremongered out of using plastic pipe the day I joined this forum. As a result all my pipework is in copper apart from the odd flexi. I'd like to know who uses plastic regularly and would tell me not to worry as long as installed properly. And which brand to use? I'll...

Hi there! In one of our office buildings a tennant is complaining of loss of pressure from there kitchen taps every now and then... I have just been to check it out and at first the pressure was fine then after running it for a few minutes I turned the taps off and on again and then the...

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Hi I have had an ecoTEC 831 boiler megaflow hot water, with CH temperature set to 65C, room thermostat set at 22C. Normally when the boiler runs up to that temperature within a few minutes the burner shuts off and the temperature slowly falls to around 50/55C before the boiler fires up...

Got bullied into fitting a combi in place of an old servowarm boiler (the one with the swing out rad) today. Kept on at the landlord to at least change the rads and valves as it was all in pretty rough shape. Also, the rads were thin steel. The existing system was fed via a tiny bucket, the...

Gents, your thoughts please - commissioning a Viessmann 30 kw combi today (fit loads of them / love em ) Gas inlet working pressure on full load =19.5 mbar. Anylised ok, Spot on. Come to gas rating, again full load. Metric meter 86 secs over 2 mins = 27.78 gross = 25.03 nett. I can never...

Hi I’m after some advice and I’m hopeful you clever people can help! I’ve got a push button type toilet which when flushed acts correctly and refills the bowl like it should do. Then, after the tank has refilled, a further release of water is released into the bowl. At first the further...

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hi can anyone tell me what the fault would be in a boiler ive been looking at.its already had the transformer replaced and is firing again.but now when it kicks back in again on stat it doesn't fire up or lockout just blows cold air,im thinking control box or photocell.its a old boiler with a...

Fitting a Biasi!! And there was me thinking tap spanners would only be needed on taps!!