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Just some advice from some combi boiler experts, I'm well aware it's about time I had a new modern combi fitted to replace my aged boiler but wasn't hoping to incur that cost quite so soon after Xmas. Boiler is a Worcester 240 BF , been working flawlessly for years but suddenly last night...

Before you all jump down my throat for daring to ask about gas related stuff :) , how do the regs get interpreted these days, after doing up my kitchen I looked into maybe getting a new cooker, my old cooker has a slot for the stability bracket, all the new cookers I have looked at no longer...

After re-plastering the kitchen anf getting it upright again the gas bayonet to the cooker is still sitting there just fine, but I would like to tile behind the cooker right to the skirting board, it's one of those standard elbow types, if I tile around the elbow then the gas hose won't go on, I...

Haven't fitted any coving in ages, sure last time I did the coving, it had a celing edge and a wall edge, just opened the cove box up and now it looks the same both sides, is all the coving universal on all edges now, theres no marking on the covind bto say ceiling or wall edge, thought I'd just...

The relevant question that I can find was last answered in 2009 so what are the regs now, I have just fitted a new Franke single bowl stainless kitchen sink , but the only lugs that are on the sink are virtually so small it will be very awkward to fit a earth bond to it, all the water pipes...

After some advice please, doing up my kitchen and want some advice about suitable celing lights, the ceiling is only 2.53m x 2.25m so not a big celing, it's only ever had one pendant with a 100 watt bulb in it, but it is a fairly high at 2.65m . I wish to modernise the kitchen but don't want...

Any good advice available on suitable under kitchen lighting, my situation is that I have one slight problem unit that 98% of the time will be no problem at all but it's the 2% I'm worried about. I will be having a light fitted under 3 different units , two no problem at all the other unit...

What is the best joint sealant for tapered steel joints. The Pipe will be chased into a wall so will be permanent and not really accessible . What is the best method and reasons why. I've done lots of reading and all have there benefits or downfalls, one post went on for 9 pages once the...

Got an old Worcester 240 BF that I know is getting past it, tonight the little screw inside the Central heating bypass valve just decided to start leaking, at first the odd drip, now a steady trickle, its just a little threaded plug inside the valve basically, is there anything that can be done...

Following on from my soft red brick post, when "Bill and Ben" the cowboy men, built the bathroom extension on the back of my house they only managed to get that floor about 40 mm higher than the original kitchen floor on the same house level. I expect they built the extension on the back of the...

My old house is made out of soft reds which I know suck up the water like a sponge, whoever did the work in my house some 20 years ago came from the O.K Corral , Yee Haaa, ridem cowboy. Some of the work has to be seen to be believed, I know most of it stayed on the wall all that time ,it...

I'm just about to totally gut my ancient kitchen and need to do something with the old lead surface mounted gas pipe,I basically want to get it chased into the wall and just leave a surface mounted bayonet socket to plug the gas cooker into, but have seen many posts frowning upon burying gas...

I have a combi boiler that I recently topped up via the filling loop, those auto air vents always seem to leak after a while I know, now the boiler pressure seems to keep creeping up of it's own accord ,about half a bar a week, it happened straight after I'd just topped it up , is it likely that...

I bought a sky dish package from ebay some time ago >> Dish ,zinwell quad lnb ,suitable amount of twin cable, f connectors and cable clips,all 100% brand new never been used, I then bought the Managers special "A" grade Humax 320 gb freesat box. I set the box up, fitted the dish with twin cables...

Just had a new TV aerial fitted on my roof, a 4 way mast head amplifier in the loft, now I just need to drop cables down the walls inside bedrooms for portable TV's, downstairs has the quality coax fitted outside coming into the front room with the mast head amplifier psu, what is the best/most...

Having problems with my 240 BF boiler , it will run all day with Central Heating on, but when we run a bath from it, withing one minute of finishing, it trips the gas valve and cuts the flame, it doesn't trip halfway through the bath being poured, always within about a minute of stopping. From...

The whole CH system has had a total overhaul,sludge remover added and flushed,all rad valves cleaned, all radiators off for flushing ,new Auto air vent, new diverter valve,all put together and re-pressurized minus the rads at the moment (haven't finished the flush yet), but got the system back...

Is the make "Uni Bond" any good as a floor tile adhesive . It's a rapid set powder form mix , in either a 20 or 25 kg (not sure which)bag and sold in B & Q , would this be better than their "own" brands or should I stump up and buy Bal instead , I've only got a small amount to lay 11 m2 in...

Is there an easy way of removing this stuff , a house where we are working is being totally gutted then re-built to a different spec ,all contents are being scrapped so I've been able to obtain an excellent bathroom suite , Quality looking Heritage make ,and a good quality cast iron bath , bit...

After last weeks exploits of no hot water unless the heating was on, was finally tracked down to the valve stuck at the back of the diverter valve so hot water was going straight out the boiler flow , instead of the valve shutting and the water coming out of the HW flow. This week I've fitted...