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Hi. I'm after some advice on fitting a central heating room thermostat. Currrent boiler is glowworm ultra power Sxi with the gloworm climapro RF system. The thermostat control unit/cuitcuit board now just displays a solid red light indicating a permanent fault so I'm considering swopping to...

hi.i have a glow worm ultra power sxi and my climapro rf recently came up with the rf error on my remote unit rendering it useless and leaving me with basic timed settings set by the boiler front panel. And no thermostat to kick in when the temp drops as it's all controlled by the rf unit. The...

evening all, we have 2 vertical rads in our bedroom. One blazes away as it should the other doesn't even get warm. (A long story but not my current question!) The one that works as it should (i.e. Gets hot) makes a really annoying water dribbling noise, almost like someone is poring water in at...

hi we have an old optima 2 plus alarm system which is I'm guessing 20 years old. It's wired with 5 P.i.r's and garage door contact, 2 panic button pushes and 1 extra keypad in the garage. its never been right since we moved in. Zones not working right internal battery dead, can't be set etc...

our main bedroom is freezing as its above a double garage. The roof is flat and plastered but needs more insulation imo. Can I literally stick a load of king span pieces to the roof? Will it help or is there a better way? I don't want to break out a big job. I'm no pro but I could make a decent...

Hi my zilmet pressure vessel has rusted out on top of my boiler and sprung a major leak. I need some advice on what to do. I've shut the boiler down electrics side. The pressure vessel has been weeping for a good 90 mins now, do I need to turn mains water off too? Or open hot water taps to drain...

my bathroom rad is stone cold, all my others are fine. The pipes leading to the valves are nice and hot, I've tried bleeding the air out via the top screw but it's not got any air in there it just dribbles water out...am I over looking something simple here? Could the adjustable heat valve on...

I need to fit a new header tank water vessel to my gloworm 170 sxi as the original is rusted through and weeping. Is it as easy as it looks? One big nut connecting the pipe at the top? Do I need to fill with water before refitting? thanks for any help.

I have a double garage which is directly under the main bedroom of my house, I'm always busy doing bits in the garage and the Mrs complains at the noise! Is there anything I could use on the plastered ceiling in the garage to reduce the noise going up? I don't want a big involved job, just more...

Hi, I'm hoping to crack on with painting my garage door soon but I'm looking for a few pointers to set me off in the right direction. It's a double width door that's currently in a battleship grey primer looking finish that's slightly flaky in places. I'm not actually sure what material the face...

Hi. We have just moved into our new house (5 bed detached, built around 1991) and are having some heating/boiler issues! It's currently running a glow worm ultra power sxi with a ext control unit. All seemed well other than a few non working rads (tried bleeding but no air in them). We were...