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We have a Worcester Bosch si30 condensing combi which was fitted early November onto a power flushed system. We've had no problems until this week. Within 15 seconds of starting up, it's making a vibrating noise sometimes for just a few seconds, othertimes quite loud and lasting a minute or so...

The handle on the oven oven door came off and whilst repairing this, the hinge (attached to the oven door) has worked it's way loose and come away from the cooker. I guess the bolts on the other side had come loose. There's no way of gaining access to put new bolts on the back of screws. Has...

My engineer has fitted a NOx emissions plug on my boiler which I understand will reduce the CO2 emissions. He also said it reduces my heat to 13kws an hour. Does this mean my bills will be cheaper or would I usually be using less than this (I have seven radiators) anyway? I assume it's...

My Mum has a condensing boiler which likes thousands of others causing problems with the freezing temperatures last year. The boiler is quite a long way from the kitchen waste, so her engineer has suggested either casing the condensate pipe outside or rerouting the condensate pipe over the...

Can you buy lagging for a 45mm outside waste pipe? Been to Homebase, Wickes and local diy store without success.

Like many, I had to deal with a frozen condensate pipe last year. My boiler and drain are both on an exposed north elevation so suffer extremes. Does it help much by lagging the condensate pipe? If not, I think my other option is to run the condensate pipe into the sink waste pipe, so it only...

I'm about to have a new combi boiler installed on a system which is 12 years old. as far as I'm aware an inhibitor has never been used on the system. When the expansion vessel was replaced 3 years ago the water was black, almost oily. Any thoughts on whether a chemical clean or power flush...

I have 3 quotes for a replacement boiler and would appreciate your thoughts on best to go for either in terms of boiler or how they propse to clean the system. My present system is 12 years old but I know it contains black almost oily water. 1. Providing a Worcester Bosch si30, including...

I've got two quotes for a new boiler, one providing a Worcester si30, the other a Valliant protec 28. Any thoughts which is best? I know both makes are regularly fitted these days.

We have an Ideal Response 100 combi boiler. For a while now, after the central heating has been on five minutes (and the pressure gauge has gone up approx 0.2), the boiler whistles for about five minutes and then stops. It then whistles for a few seconds immediately after the ignition has fired...

We have an Ideal Response 100 combi boiler. For a while now, after the central heating has been on five minutes (and the pressure gauge has gone up approx 0.2), the boiler whistles for about five minutes and then stops. It then whistles for a few seconds immediately after the ignition has fired...

We have an Ideal Response 100 combi boiler. For a while now, after the central heating has been on five minutes (and the pressure gauge has gone up approx 0.2), the boiler whistles for about five minutes and then stops. It then whistles immediately after the ignition is in use for a short while...

I have a leak from my shower and cannot get hold of my plumber. There is an isolating valve above the shower. I know I need to turn this about quarter of the way around to isolate the water, but which way - clockwise or anti-clockwise? Sorry I'm a female and don't want to increase the flow!!

We had an electrician look at our electrics when we purchased our house 10 years ago, who told us our electrics were about 10-12 years old, making them 20-22 years old now. At the time there was a fuse board and this was replaced by trip switches. We recently had some work carried out by a...

We have an Ideal Response 100 combi boiler which is heating water, but after the tap is switched off you no longer here the whoosh of water in the radiators/pipes afterwards. On heating mode it whistles, after about a minute it starts to gurgle, overheats and the pressure gauge quickly...

We have an Ideal Response 100 combi (not jokes please!). This morning put heating on and after about a minute a gurgling sound could be heard in pipes from boiler and the pressure gauge shot up. There was no heat in radiators, but boiler was warm. Have also noticed that when hot water tap is...

We have a combi boiler and after turning the hot water off, we normally hear water swish into radiators and the open radiator normally feels slightly warm. Over the last couple of days, we no longer hear the swish of water and the open radiator is stone cold. Could anything be wrong? We're not...

Our boiler has broken down nine times in nine years. Can anyone beat this?

My washing machine hose connects to an extended hose, which is turn is connected to the waste under the sink. From what I can gather, retail shops will only connect directly into a waste pipe, so won't connect a new machine. Being a lone female, will be be fairly easy to undo the travel bolts...

Over the last month my Mum has been getting TV interference, mainly during the first 10 minutes she has the TV on. It is a slightly fuzzy line about 10cm wide - you can still see what's going on reasonably clearly. The TV is less than a year old. We have tried re-tuning it and have checked...