Recent content by karlito

I've had a closer inspection and it seems the flue is sloping towards the house slightly, would putting some sort of peaked cap over it be ok, it wouldn't stop any gases getting in or out would it? The gutter looks ok, it's the waste pipe from the bath that has a bend in it directly above the...

Last night I found water dripping from mi boiler (Potterton Puma 80), took the front cover off and found it was coming from inside the other metal cover which has the window for viewing the pilot light, it was raining really hard so I guessed it must being getting in the flue, there was a drip...

Ok pal, thanks for the advice, it does sound a lot better since I bled the radioators the other day but it will need sorting soon!!

Ok, thanks for the advise, I ain't taking anything apart until i'm sure I can do it. I feel confident enough to do the job apart from one other thing. I've had an engineer out to it before for a different reason, think it was a sensor that wasn't working properly, and when he came he...

Thanks for the help guys! Yeah it's a Puma, I think about ten years old. Will I be able to buy only the front half of the pump? When refilling or topping up the system do I need to shut off the valves that are on the flow and return pipes for the CH to stop fresh water going straight in...

Cheers mate, so am I looking at a new pump or can it be taken apart and repaired? I just can't understand how this could have happened all of a sudden, how has the crap got in the pump in the first place? I've got a combi boiler so i'm presumming that it will pump my hot water to the taps...

Hello all, new here, great site, need help! A few months ago my Myson pump started making strange noises, I've gone through as many threads as possible without getting square eyes and can't find a definate answer. Sometimes is ok then all of a sudden it will start sounding like someones put...