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I had a British gas engineer round to look at a vaillant boiler which was producing fluctuating hot water. He said the heat exchanger needed replacing but refused to do it because there were mouse droppings inside the boiler (visible when he opened the front panel to look inside). He said I...

A few days ago, my 8 year old Bosch Exxcel 1200 express packed up - the drum stopped rotating and it wouldn't start any wash or spin cycles. Some other posts on this site suggested the brushes could be the problem. I took them out, and sure enough they were worn down to about 5mm length and...

I have an upstairs radiator with a broken lockshield valve. The top of the valve (i.e. the bit you turn with a wrench to open/close it) has sheared off, leaving the valve in the closed position and making it impossible to open. The valve isn't leaking or anything but the rad is stuck in the...

I have a recently installed vaillant ecotec 937 and I would like to know how to increase the internal central heating pressure - it's all working fine, but I will need to take a couple of radiators off shortly to do some decorating and am concerned that refilling them after I put them back will...