Recent content by Chrishome49

Hi there, I have a 1950s two bed attached property with a mansard design roof, alongside a driveway leading to garden access. Two bedrooms and bathroom are located upstairs. The felted part of the roof is starting to fail and the original 6x 1950s velux upstairs also need replaced as the seals...

Hi there, I have an old Baxi solo boiler for the central heating and hot water, with hot water stored in a cylinder in the loft. My electric 9kw shower has just given up the ghost so I've just fitted a wall mounted mixer tap to the taps on the bath. Seems to be working well and pressure looks...

What is microbore? Does that describe the twin valve? The house is quite a big old draughty place and hall thermostat turns the whole system on or off so will prob stick to that rather than trvs. Have just been told the twin valves could burst under pressure of new combi. Current 9kw...

That's great info thanks, I'll run it past the engineer tomorrow. If anyone is able for a 'homer' combi boiler replacement job in Stirling, let me know. Apparently current 15mm gas pipe not sufficient, and need a new run of 22mm, but I having it fitted externally on outside wall. :D

Hi there, I have an old vented central heating system with baxi boiler in the kitchen and hot water cylinder in the loft. Old boiler barely working so getting quotes to replace with a combi and remove cylinder etc. 11 radiators in the house, 6 of them have twin entry valves with both pipes...