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Thanks to everyone who helped. British Gas did manage to fix it, it's not sludge as apparently these sorts of systems don't get sludge. He said it was something that had got into the system, just some general dirt. Unfortunately he did manage to flood my conservatory - you would think that...

Chris, perhaps instead of just sniggering you could suggest something helpful? Like if they don't do it how I could get it done (either DIY or asking them to)?

Could someone clarify which part is the boiler and what you call the cylinder? As in what's it's proper name?

I am now, I'll confess to being a woman on my own, I can do fuses, plugs, the basics, but plumbing is just beyond me so I've signed up and they can do the yearly maintenance for me.

How on earth can they justify having a design that does that? I've had to concede defeat and British Gas are coming in tomorrow :(

Thanks and i'm really not trying to be a pain but mine is a II, I've got the manual but it doesn't show the pipes configuration - I made sure the engineer bloke had it.

Thanks but he (the engineer) tried that, no joy, and I don't think he knew the internal pipe workings of the Boilermate so didn't know how to clear it. He tried shoving wire in it, but that didn't work. I've seen on here that you can get descailing kit, not sure if that's going to be the...

Hello people, please be gentle with me, I'm an IT expert and I don't speak Central Heating. I have a boilermate II which at 3.30am on Wednesday decided to start screaming. I shut it down, did some basic investigation including talking to Gledhill and found that the F+E tank wasn't filling...