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Hi all Moved house recently and the boiler in my new place is giving my trouble when HW is selected. Been running the CH fine this week with no problems but if the HW is selected the boiler will occasionally lockout. Im never there when it locks out so im not sure if the fault occurs...

Hi, Recently moved house and working my way through a lot of small problems with the place. The kitchen has an inbuilt fridge/freezer part no TKR6600 made by Technik, though I have also seen identical whirlpool appliances on the internet wit the same part number. Problem is the fridge...

Hi all, Just moved into a new place and have been rectifying the multitude of defects. One of which was a device fitted to the hot water cylinder called a pro tech anti corrosion system, which had a red light on. popping the cover off quickly showed that the problem was caused by one of...

Hi all, I have a glow worm Betacom boiler that has a built in analogue timer in the front. The ticking noise made by the timer drives me insane at night. The timer is set to the always on position as there is a separate wireless program/thermostat that controls when the heating comes on or...

I currently have a Ravenheat CSI 85t condensing combi boiler that has been in use for maybe 10 years. The last few years the boiler has had some issues, one of which nobody seems to have much luck with curing. Its an intermittent fault which brings on the overtemp light. Changing the 2 green...

Hi all, I'm planning on having a kitchin installed in summer and have a few questions about cost and opinions on big name suppliers. So 1. what is the usual pricing stratagy for kitchin fitters, do they charge per item fitted (eg cabinets) or by the hour? 2. my kitchin basically a...

Hi all, Had a problem with my dishwasher (bosch classixx) where it would not finish washing and would run continually. Removed the back and sides to investigate and found a pool of water in the base of the machine. The machine was running continually as it had activated the anti flood...

Been having trouble on and off with this boiler ever since i moved into this house. Today i woke to no hot water or central heating. there was some water beneath the boiler and upon futher inspection it is coming from ontop of the boiler. A closer look shows there is a small plastic pipe...

Hi all, looking for a bit of advice (as im sure many will be now the cold weather is here :) ) i have a ravenheat csi 85 gas combi boiler. every few days the boiler stops working with a constant red light on and the fan whirring away. this happens regardless of of the boiler being used...

Hi all, Going to be fitting a floating wooden floor in my hallway next week and want some advice about the best way to cut the flooring to fit around the staircase post. My hallway is a square of about 2 metres with with the staircase coming down i have basiccally an L shape hallway to...

hi all not sure if this belongs in the plumbing or the tiling sub forum so i'll start here. I'm getting to the end of finishing my bathroom, tiled walls/floor, plubing all in ect and finished fitting my bath today. The bath is 1700mm long and has left a gap of nearly 2" at the end. I was...

Hi all Currently refitting my bathroom. I have put the steel bath into position and screwed the feet into the floor but there is still alot of movment to it. I did not think that steel baths required batons fitting to the walls, and there was no mention of fitting a frame with the bath...

hi all I have an electric shower that has recently developed a fault. After a few mins of normal operation it suddenly goes cold for around 30 secs before heating up again for another few mins. I assume the overheat sensor inside the shower is causing this to happen as a safety feature...

Greetings all I am planning on removing my back boiler to have it replaced by a combi (as it is just me in the house and my back boiler is terribly innefficient), anyways i was hoping you could point out any obvious pitfalls before i begin. I am an aircraft engineer by trade and competant...