Recent content by Andi88

Good Morning everyone. I've just recently needed to drain down my CH system to change a rad valve over. However its such a pain in the butt to bleed my system. I live in a very small house and when the boiler turns on, it sounds like on the beach with waves,gushing and gurgling! It happens...

Well I called the engineer and he claims that theres nothing he can do, he suggested I use Noise reducer stuff ?? Possible fob off?

I thought so as in anger I gave it a pat :oops: as I was trying to concentrate doing work, and it disappeared for a few mins.. :lol:

Hiya gurus! I have a very old Baxi Solo PF WM series boiler, I've noticed after it was serviced, After the heating cycle, I can sometimes hear 'drip drip drip' inside the boiler. This only happens sometimes :? Its annoying now as obviously the cold front is coming soon and the boiler is in...

I think from the pic message i sent from my phone my case applies as the pipe bore was slightly kinked and also it was a git to access it without tearing down everything around it. He said of course can use solder joint, but.. if it starts leaking you will defo need to tear down the skirting...

I was faced with the same dilemma, I bought an 8mm pipe cutter and a little bit of fresh 8mm microbore, straight compression joint and voila it was fixed in no time. My plumber mate says its a right git to solder a good joint on old microbore...

Ballcock is not dripping nor the tank overflow as I literally sat in the loft staring at the tank for 30 mins whilst CH was on. Its definately not coming from that white pipe (loft height), The only white PVC pipe I can see from the tank is from the cold water feed and that pipe disappears...

Ok, but theres nothing I can with the drip drip drip? (thin walls) :cry:

Sorry mate didnt understand that (I'm a newbie!)

I've noticed I have 2 white pvc pipes sticking out of the exterior wall. Both defo has something to do with CH. The highest one is Loft level and its the overflow for the F+E tank. The second pipe is ceiling height on the ground floor and it sorts of points into the gutter work in the porch...

Is your Civic the Rover 400 lookin one? 100% certain its the fan resistor switch behind the glovebox. I have the 1.8 Vti and I've been through 3 of them already and my car is 11 years old :evil: They are about 20 odd quid from the dealers and fitting is fairly straight forward. Let me...

I was thinking that..Is it expensive to skim? I'm maybe handy around cars, but total crap with a trowel! Standard bedroom size room...

Hi guys I have a hole in the ceiling about 1 x 1ft (fixed burst pipe) and the rest of the ceiling is like a stripey (looks like brush dabbing) artex. I am going to attempt to patch up the ceiling, but what is the best way to match the artex? Cheers all

Nice one John I'll give it a whirl tonight..

Hiya John So its ok to notch it back to 'normal' speed even with the X400 stuff in it?. I didnt even know about balancing the rads until I read up about it since problems lol.. No flashy TRV's on the rads.. just simple lockshield thingys and a couple of drain off ones.. Also about...