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Hello guys, A quick piece of advice if I may. I am planinng on putting up a small partition wall to create a 9ft x 9ft box in one corner of our garage to house a model railway. I don't want to really both with plastering the walls as it is only the garage and cosmetically there is no...

Hello all, I have a plan to build a small 'room' inside my existing double garage. This room will be for me and my little lad to create a model railway layout. There are 2 reason's why I wanted to create a room inside the existing garage, 1 - Creates a self contained space which will be...

Hello guys, Our Vaillant 242 E Combi boiler has been looked at by British Gas yesterday and we have been told that it needs a new expansion vessel, which is fine. However, BG say that the expansion vessel that goes inside the boiler is not available anymore, so they want to install and...

Hello all, I have posted several messages on this forum about the pressure loss in our boiler. The loss is now getting far worse (1bar in 2 days), so it is now time to source the leak. It is not on any of the radiators, they are all clean and dry. The boiler itself is clean, dry and no...

Hello guys, We have a Vaillant VCW242E boiler, about 16 years old I believe. We have had over the last year pressure drops of about 1bar over a period of 1-2 weeks. We have to keep topping the system up. I have also noticed a strange issue over the last couple of months, doesn't happen...

Hello All, A bit of advice if I may. Our house was build around 1985, our next door neighbors garage roof drains off into a soak away in our garden which was about 4 metres from the rear of our house. You can see where the soak away was as the lawn has sunk a little. Now, we had a...

Hi guys, A quick bit of advice or your thoughts if I may. We have a 15 year old Vaillant combi boiler which is working pretty much ok, has a few minor glitches every so often, but in the whole it is ok. Over the last fortnight I have noticed something strange happening. When we turn on a...

Hi guys, I am redoing our bathroom and have remove all the fixtures including the rad. There is going to be a towel radiator installed instead of the rad and the valves need changing. Therefore, I presume that I will need to drain the system to facilitate the removal of the valves. I think...

Hi guys, We have had an AEG dishwasher for the last 4 years which has been working perfectly. Last night, we put the dishwasher on just before going to bed. At about 4am we woke to hear the dishwasher still wirring around. My wife went down to investigate and found that the program dial was...

We have had an intermitent problem with our 15 year old Vaillant boiler for several months. Some days we cannot get domestic hot water out of the system. You can hear the pumps or something fire up in the boiler and a clicking sound but it does not fire. Other days it will be fine. We have had...

We have recently moved into a new house and have a problem with the domestic hot water. We have a vaillant combi boiler (do not know the exact model), central heating is fine and domestic hot water downstairs seems to be fine. The bath and shower upstairs sometimes fails to light the bioler. The...