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My Mum's house had a bedroom and shower-room loft conversion 18 years ago. The room is used very little (last time 8 months ago), but I stayed there last week on a visit. When I flushed the toilet the water built up in the pan till almost full, then rushed away. As it went, air gurgled out of...

We have had water softeners for over 25 years (Norfolk has very hard water). Current model has worked fine for a long time but last year got some sort of contamination in the brine tank. This appeared as little white specs which got worse untill it blocked the gauze filter in the brine tube. The...

We have Westco TRVs on all the rads in our house which are over 20 years old (bar one Danfoss recently fitted with replacement rad). One or two of the TRVs have stuck shut occasionally, but have always freed off using the flat of a screwdriver method. Having run the CH for a couple of weeks...

Existing shower pump has packed up. Looked online for a replacement but confused by positive/negative classification. System has cold storage tank in loft and hot water tank in airing cupboard. Which pump do I need ? Thanks OK forget it - got the answer ! Did a search but nothing...

Recently tried a Belkin ADSL Modem/Router (model F5D7633-4) to replace a USB broadband modem we have used with our PC, as wife wants to use her work-laptop too. Router is all set-up OK and all the lights are green. I can access its set-up pages from the PC and the wife can log-in to the Wi-Fi...

8 months ago I got good help from this forum to cure a CH system with cold ground floor rads. During that time the system was well flushed through with Sentinel X400 System Restorer and re-filled with X100 Inhibitor. I also took the opportunity to back-flush all the rads and fit a Spirotech...

Old pump in Combi was running slow and overheat stat was cutting burner off in DHW and CH. The downstairs rads were cold and upstairs rads just getting warm. New Grundfos pump fitted has restored the DHW but the CH is not improved and boiler cycles. When the CH is turned on, hot water...

I suspect the pump on our combi-boiler may have had it (cold rads. downstairs - system flushed OK recently). I will be removing the pump to check it out per other posts on the forum, but have a couple of questions should it need replaced. It is a Grundfoss UPS 15-60 AO (fitted with auto-vent)...