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Can anyone shed any light on this? Completely baffled how water can keep trickling out of the overflow yet the level in the header tank does not drop. Noise not getting any worse but symptoms persist!

The header tank on the Boilermate II is connected directly above the main thermal store. When you say vent pipe in this instance would that be the pipe that connects the main store to the top of the header tank (i.e. the not the cold feed one)? Other than the cold feed in I don't see any...

Hi all - wonder if you could shed some light on what is going on with my boiler. I have a Maxol Microturbo feeding a Boilermate II. Earlier in the week I had to drain down the entire system to replace a isolation valve on a towel radiator that was leaking. The drain down was fine, I checked...

That is pretty much identical to the one I had in when I moved in a few years ago - exactly the same problem, seal had gone and it was hissing away letting water into the pan. No idea where they got the bathroom suite from, like you say the cistern is nice but quite unusual! I replaced mine with...

This looks spot on, just one question, cant work it out from the pictures, are they a slimline facia I.e sits around 10mm away from the wall as apposed to the ones which are an inch or more!?

Hi Just bought and fitted a new Vent-Axia 100 Silhouette. Has anyone else got one of these? To me it seems too noisy for which is not a cheap fan. I took the first one back earlier as I figured it must be faulty, but the 2nd one is just the same. The noise is seems to me to be just the...

Thanks! After inspecting, it's actually behind the red and blue plastic clip, just pops out. Thanks for your help, it pointed me in the right direction!

Hi, my bathroom tap has developed a slight leak which is slowly getting worse. If it was a standard tap it would be easy to fix, but alas it's not, its very similar to one of these: http://www.plumbtap.com/product/Axi_Monobloc_Basin_Mixer_4G3040_4G3040# The leak is coming from the...

I fitted one of these last year - for your 10.30pm setting, you want to put this at something like 10 degrees, otherwise it's going to keep your heating on all night to keep the temperature at 19. Setting it to 10 basically means that unless the room drops 9 degrees overnight (very unlikely!)...

One thing I did not do once I had installed the new pump was bleed it - could an airlock in the pump reduce the flow hence the noise and banging when reduced to speed 2? I can't bleed it right now as the pump is too hot but can't think what else it could be, I've only changed a pump?!

Just to add to this, I actually think the noise is coming from the boiler, not the pump. Its almost like a sound of rushing water. Like I say it stops if you turn the pump down, but it starts kettling again.

When you're 99% sure, theres always the 1% chance you're wrong :-) So, replaced the pump and the banging has stopped and the everything seemed fine. This was until the temparature of the cylinder started getting upto temperature, and the new pump has started to make a hissing noise, which...

All the radiators were hot just before it started and there is still some warm water this morning so I'm not sure it's the cold feed. What's the best way to check the pump is running? Am I right in thinking you can take the bleed screw out from the middle and you can see if the motor is turning...

It's only just started happening so theres still hot water, however the noise is too loud to leave the power on so the cylinder is going to start cooling down overnight. My only confusion is that the pump is definitely vibrating, I'm not sure if this would be possible if it was clogged up...

Header tank is fine. The more I think about this the more I think it must be the pump. Just need to wait until the pipes cool down to check whether the pipe gets hot upto the pump but not after it. Would the pump still vibrate even if it is stuck/clogged up?