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Thanks for your reply. Only time it's needed topping up slightly is when I get it serviced every year.

Had a baxi xclusiv fitted over two years ago and never gave it a thought until now. When I turn the central heating on or a hot water tap the pressure gauge on the boiler drops albeit temporarily before going back to normal or rises to its normal state when heating has been on etc. Is this normal?

Hi. I have a Baxi Platinum 40 Combo which is about two years old. Noticed in the last couple of days when the heating switches off the boiler still runs for a couple of minutes or so which is the norm I think. Once the boiler shuts down a short whistle sounds literally for a second or so. No...

Hi. I have a cast iron soil stack which has a small leak from the picture attached. Beneath the plastic collar is a hole which was cut into the cast iron pipe to clear a blockage years ago. The hole is about 2" x 1" . Just had a render job on the outside so replacing the cast iron pipe is not...

Hi I have been preparing for a garden overhaul and cut through a largish tree root. I'm now getting water coming from the broken root. At first I thought it was from a drain but I've dug all around the root and underneath and around the soil is dry albeit clay. I can see the water coming from...

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Hello folks. I've got a joint on my cast iron down pipe. I had a new bathroom fitted a few years ago and the fitter replaced some of the pipe with plastic and connected it to the cast iron down pipe. A few years ago I noticed a small leak so scraped all the joint out and used plumbers putty to...

Hi folks. For a year or so I've been having what only I can describe as a small vibration sounding noise coming from a water pipe I presume. I can hear it more when I'm lucky enough to catch it in the bathroom or under the stairs where the stop cock is. Lasts around a second and then stops...

TBH it started before when the boiler was installed. Sure it has something to do with the stopcock. Too many turns....too little turns.....(shrugs shoulders)

I have recently had a new boiler fitted but before this had some taps changed in the bathroom. We had to turn the stop tap off as the tap had no isolation valve and obviously when the boiler was fitted. Randomly I can hear like a spring board sound which basically lasts a few seconds. Almost...

Hi folks. A quick question about boiler pressure. During the day we obviously use hot water and heating and the pressure when cold on the system reads about 1.4bar. If we have been out all day and not used the heating or any hot or cold water I can see that the pressure has dropped a tiny bit to...

An update. The expansion vessel has been replaced as well as the pressure gauge. The pressure gauge is still slowly losing pressure about 1 small mark every week. Before the EV was replaced there was no water coming from the copper pipe outside. British Gas came out and the first "engineer" said...

I can see the valve I think from inside the boiler (saw a similar one on YouTube) . It's got a large red plastic cover on the end of it. I ain't touching it cos everything I touch with being an office dweller doesn't end well.