Recent content by colin_h

The pressure only dropped after I bleed all the radiators the other day and was imediately refilled. The boiler has otherwise been running perfectly. The first radiator as I mentioned has always made a noise for a second as the boiler starts up but otherwise everything is nice and quite. It...

In the last few weeks my worcester junior 28i has been making some increasingley funny noises. It's a year old and the first radiator on the circuit has always needed bleeding regularly but recently bleeding it seems to lead to air getting in the boiler/pump! Up until recently bleeding the...

I've just upgraded to windows XP, and installed symantec v9.02 anti-virus. I'm using is BT broadband basic or was until it started to drop off after a minute or so. It had been connecting and running fine for a few days, which allowed symantec to update and windows to download all of it's...

tails off of a ball valve might be an idea, I'm not sure if they would be long enough. the attachment is quite complicated with collars bringing the unit away from the wall by an 1 1/2" including connection to the unit plus the better part of an inch through tiles and plaster plus another inch...

I'm about to tile my hall and kitchen and have also been toying with the idea of installing underfloor heating. The floor is asphalt (so I've been told-it's black that is about all I do know) and I've been told that I can't install underfloor heating onto it. So here are my questions- 1...

Does anyone know if you can get 22mm threaded tails/pipe in 4-6 inch lengths? It's a long and boring story but in short I have a thermostatic mixer shower with no tails. There is a 22mm captive nut to connect to but no male threaded tail. All I need is two lengths of threaded tail like those...

What is considered to be the least damaging method of taking up bits of a T+G chipboard floor? I only need to get 1 board up in every room to run some pipework in. all I can think of is running a circular saw down one or both T+G joints and lifting but will this affect creaking and general...

Yeah if I put the disc in and restart the computer and then select to run from disc. Having done that it offers several choices one of which is to repair the present installation. If I choose that option it scans the files and then reboots without actually doing anything!

I've got a system running win2000 prof, which has suddenly stopped registering both a cd-rw and dvd-rom. Autorun doesn't work, they don't show up in 'my computer'. (the drives do still spin when i put a disc in but nothing happens-so pressume hardware ok)) Tried to use add/remove hardware and...

I've just bought my first house and I'm trying to get central heating fitted. I'm interested in having a combi boiler and 5 rads fitted. Because my budget is a little tight to say the least I want to try and cut some of the costs. The best way I can see to do this is to run all the piping...