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I have had a couple of roofers look at my roof. both say the roof is not in too bad a condition. However a bodge of Zinc and some lead has been used on teh chimney cover flashings (front chimney) The back chimney is much worse and when it rains waters in coming into the loft and is visible on...

will do - I guess I am lucky that my 1930s semi - has the outhouse right next to the kitchen so its a metre or two till the pipework is in the house - Also importantly we also did not run any pipework under the down stairs floor boards to conceal pipework, otherwise there would have been a lot...

Hi Terry D I know your right that the pipe stat should be on the return rather than the send, but really does it matter? 99% of the pipework on an external installation will be inside the house. Your quite right that as soon as the boiler fire ups it will satisfy the the pipe stat. However as...

Things to consider 1) Gas supply - we had 28mm gas supply pipe fitted (obviously drops to 22mm into boiler 2) many fitters just wanted to change the boiler - don't do this unless you have provenance on the central heating pipework - ours was a mess - so we rippled the lot out see point 3 3)...

Hi All Just for anyone concerned about central heating coming on with frost stat. I had problem as there was no pipe stat fitted. If the boiler is located in say as kitchen then the frost stat will do its job, especially as the ambient air temp is likely to not go below 5c anyway. If...