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Hi all was hoping if someone could explain in layspeak the exact nature of my CH/HW system and the implications. Have inherited an old system in the new house and quickly ran out of money due to a quick install of a new boiler being required and so had to persist with the old setup. Have a new...

Hi all have discovered a pretty good solid floor underneath the front room carpet in the new house. It would appear that clear varnish has been used and is in good order. I would like to treat on top with my favourite light oak shade. However out of all the DIY stores I have only been able to...

Hi all have discovered a pretty good solid floor underneath the front room carpet in the new house. It would appear that clear varnish has been used and is in good order. I would like to treat on top with my favourite light oak shade. However out of all the DIY stores I have only been able to...

Hi just looking at the wiring in our new house. The bathroom light fitting wiring currently features 2 lives tied together as well as 2 earths tied together. Neither combination is used with the actual light fitting. Can sort of understand this tying together in a "1-way" sense but am intrigued...

Hi all am currently hearing a loudish vibration sound (rather than rattling) in the CH system, particularly upstairs. Its deffo not the pump, and the rads are fully bled. Prob an obvious one for you guys but not for me! thanks

Hi all am a bit mystified by a background water pressure sound in my mains pipes. A callout service suggested I had a leak under my kitchen floor so I had the kitchen ripped out, tiles up, hole dug in the concrete, but nothing found. As there are no leaks anywhere else (the two cold tanks in...

Finally solved the problem with the last ditch dramatic hose backfill from the kitchen sink tap. However I have now had to do it again within the space of a few weeks, having been alerted by the boiler going out, which naturally happened after I bled a large airblock in the rad next door to it...

Hi I am trying to solve a problem for my elderly father who has a “marvellous” old Servowarm-type system (central heating only, Potterton Flamingo) with the open non-plumbed tank in the attic and 10 mm hard rubber piping. I recently put a new rad in for him (while keeping all other rads turned...