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    Patio / Paving in back yard

    Hi all I'm planning to sort out my back yard by laying some nice stone or slate paving but need som advice on how to actually do it. At the moment it's 70% concrete and 30% gravel (with mud under it) and has 2 or 3 drain covers. My questions are: - how do i smash out the concrete without...
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    Leaking pipe joint at lockshield valve - now too tight...

    yep will do - i'm looking at the sentinel X100 gel. screwfix do it for abou £25...
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    Leaking pipe joint at lockshield valve - now too tight...

    Got thome and had a look - the pipe was a little deformed and the olive was on way too tight to get off so I cut the pipe below the olive and fitted the new olive, reassembled the valve and it was fine. Only thing was i found impossible to get the new 8mm olive and nut on to to 8mm pipe. I...
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    Leaking pipe joint at lockshield valve - now too tight...

    Thanks for the quick response! OK that all sounds good, just one more question... if i take the lockshield valve off and the pipework looks OK should i just buy a new valve or should i just put some tape on it and refit (got a new olive so will put that in anyway)
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    Leaking pipe joint at lockshield valve - now too tight...

    Can't find a specific answer to this so wondered what my options are... [I have a sealed system with a baxi ecotech combi boiler ] I've taken off two radiators in my front room whilst decorating and then noticed I had a small leak at the lockshield valve where the copper pipe attaches to...
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    Baxi Burmuda Inset 2 (50 / 4) - cracked heat exchange again

    thanks for all of the advice - some of which was helpful and some of which was patronising... The problem has now been professionally diagnosed and fixed... The tank (indirect double feed coil Fortic F4) was badly limescaled up and forcing pressure back down into the bolier, this coupled...
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    Baxi Burmuda Inset 2 (50 / 4) - cracked heat exchange again

    Hi All Hope somebody can help me out here because i can't afford this to happen again or even worse buy a new boiler.... I have two problems here: A) 3 years ago the heat exchange on my Baxi Bermuda Inset 2 (50 / 4) back boiler craked and leaked all over the front room floor. I got this...
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