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I installed a system ( Vaillant system thermocompact 618/2 and Vantage cylinder) for customer about three years ago. System was flushed with X300 followed with inhibitor. Got called his morning and ( customer just lives down the road) both heating and hot water is not working. Went to have...

Replaced an old boiler with one these for a customer about 8 month ago. In the last few months the boiler has been locking out intermittenly (F7 fault code) requiring a reset on the front panel. They called WB and the engineers have replaced 1. Gas valve on the first visit 2...

I've removed a chimney, which sits 3/4 of the way from the gable on my wing building, down to the roof level. I am going to a re-roof. I've two sections of purlin. One sits from the gable end to chminey and the other is from chimney to main buidling of the house. I've like to remove the...

Does anybody know of stockist of these in the West Midlands area. Spoke to PTS late this afternoon they said they will need order them. Also the product range they had was different to the one on butlers website. PTS - say they have 500, 800 rangebut they weren't able to give me a...

Chaps/esses Apologies if this has been covered before. I don't log on too often I was taught ( more than a few years ago) to specify a T fittings with 22mm ends and 15mm middle as End x End X Middle i.e 22mm x 22mx x 15 mm Now I am told I should be using End x Middle X End = 22mm...

Reading the taps thread ' hot left or right' reminded of kitchen mixer I fitted for a customer. The mixer had a little scrub screw for removing the sprout to replace washers. I fitted the tap with scrub screw facing toward you but the customer wanted facing the wall as it was 'unsightly'. I did...

I work in West Midlands mainly and use a local supplier. He is excellent, delivers to site, no problems with returns etc and is quite competitive. Now I have job to do for one my customers in NE london. Do you guys know any good merchants in that area. I don't fancy lugging a heat-pack...

I know of some English fitters ( Agile - not East Europeans - we don't get many in midlands) still fitting oridinary boilers where condensing can be easiliy fitted ( i.e less than 1000 points under the exemption rules). I had a chat with one these guys in the merchants and according to himthe...

I’ve fitted many pedestal type basins but never the small ones without the pedestal. I have to do one this week, but I am worried that it has only two screw holes at the bottom of the basin and these would not be strong enough to hold against the wall. Especially if it is full of water and a...

Hi Doitall I think you posted a photo of your piping showing several pipes laid under floorboards, looked very neat with each notches cut exactly right to take the copper pipes. I think you had one pipe underneath each floor board. My question, why didn't make notches a bit bigger to put...

I've plastered small walls and sections of a wall and I seem to get a reasonable finish. Now I am looking to plaster a rather large ceiling 14ft by 12ft. Can anybody give me some tips please? Do you put the first coat on all the ceiling before applying the second coat or do you apply it...

I just posted query about 25mm olives and it appeared for a minute or two and then disappeared?

Chaps/sses, Over the past 10 years, I've fitted a few non-condensing combi and system boilers. This has all been for friends, families and myself. I've always done everything by the book, i.e. flushed according to the BS standard, checked pressure drops, upgraded gas line where required etc...