Recent content by danfre

You could phone Vaillant and ask for a fix price repair or get a local company to quote. Homeserve are known as Homeswerve in the trade

If it's in good condition no reason not to keep it, best connected to the return. You sometimes find a combi boiler on a large system that requires a additional expansion vessel

Bodd ,your present van is still earning you money when you use it for work, no different to a new van. A new van will depreciate same as a car

He would probably be paying more just on extending the warranty than maintenance on his present van over the next 5 years

Bodd, I think that spending that sort of money on a van is crazy. Obviously with your caretaker job you don't do many miles on other work. How much do you think your present van will cost in maintenance over the next 5 years or so, probably just normal amount unless it is falling apart. Don't...

You should have a bypass before the motorised valve, it could be that you have one on a radiator or towel rail and it has been closed off. Or you may find a auto bypass that needs adjusting

Base has to be a specific size with overhang, pretty sure it should be 18mm plywood as well

Finish size

That's probably the condense pipe. This should all be run in plastic as it acidic and as you have discovered attacks metal

Servowarm, not seen one with the clear tube to see the level. Upgrade??

Close down the rads that are working, turn on the heating it might push the air out

Air can get trapped at the cylinder. If you have a speed setting on the pump try changing up and down

If your confident try undoing the connection on the cylinder where the flow enters, just slacken it off to see if air is trapped in there. Open the the manual lever on the zone valve

Rodding access, 32mm is for handbasins

So you tar every electrian and plumber with the same brush, yet you come on here for their profession advice??