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Pablo: Thanks. :) Agile: Ha, I'm going to show him your post. :lol: He's a gas fitter working for a firm that installs and services modern boilers on large contracts for councils etc. I think this model is before his time, in all honesty. He even called up the manufacturers about it and...

I have an obsolete boiler (Gloworm Swiftflow 80) that has been running OK until recently, when the pilot light wouldn't stay on any more. I can push the valve button in, press the piezo button to ignite it, but then no matter how long I wait, the flame goes out as soon as I turn the valve and...

Thanks for the replies, guys. I had it looked at by the council's asbestos team and was assured that it was just mortar, also that it had been put there by the contractors who fitted the fire in 2001. I have since obtained a copy of the council's asbestos survey for the entire estate...

Hi, can anyone tell from these pics whether this is or isn't asbestos? The reason I'm worried that it may be asbestos is that the house is ex-council, built in the 1950s, so is exactly the sort of property that may contain asbestos. In the living room, there is a hole in the chimney breast...