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I have a Baxi Bermuda back boiler, controlled by a Horstman 527 programmer. If i call for hot water the boiler ignites & fires up nicely but ask for radiators & there's no responce. If i set the controller for HW & Heating, boiler ignites = hot water in the cylinder but cold radiators. So At...

i have replaced a leaking indirect combi h/w cylinder. The cylinder is sited in the loft space so there wasn't much to drain down/disturb from the primary circuit. But now 'hot water only' will not fire up. If I switch both heating & water on, then fine; boiler fires up and hot water starts...

i have a radiator in an attic room that i would like to move. the heating system is unvented. Can i drain down (top floor only), move rad, & then use filling loop to repressurise or is this against regs for DIY? thanks

if anybody from the midlands (who knows what their doin) is gonna do work on soil stacks, ie cuttin' into em, joining onto 'em, could i tag along? to see whats what?

couple of weeks ago i fitted a pump to increase pressure to a shower. I routed the hot water directly from the cylinder as per the instructions. Originally the showers hot water was fed from the same pipe that supplied the bath n basin. I removed the pipe section to the shower & capped it off...

Do the inserts have to used at all fittings or just when using brass compression fittings onto plastic pipe?

A guy I know is unhappy with his shower. The hot water is fed from a combi boiler but he reckons the cold comes from a storage tank in the loft. He experiences temperature problems. Too hot ,but when he ups the cold tap, the water seems to get even hotter. The mixer tap looks quite old. I have...

friend of mine reckons he can get hot water, no problem downstairs but upstairs, although getting flow, the water is cold. It needs to be repaired by someone who knows what they're doin but is this a common problem with an obvious answer? gary.

after placing the ceramic lid on the toilet cistern, i'm screwing the button housing through the lid & into the plastic flushing system. Screwed in all the way the lid is not held as there is still a 2 or 3mm gap between chromed plastic component & the ceramic lid. If i adjust the system down...