Recent content by Florine

I'm hoping someone can help me to work this one out. The situation is that there is a 3-way splitter plugged into the BT main box, of which only two sockets are currently in use: one for an answerphone, and the other for the broadband filter, into which are connected the router and the actual...

I'm finding I'm having to bleed my bedroom radiator quite heavily every few days - any idea what might be causing that, and how I can put it right, please? It's a single-panel radiator, quite elderly, I shouldn't be surprised, and tends not to get hot at the top, although the bottom is fine...

No, Handicare, but thanks for the suggestion! Wow, thanks, JohnD. I may have to print that off so that I can remember it all, though!

I rolled a large (feather) duvet down the stairs the other day - thinking it would be safer than me trying to carry it and not being able to see where I was going - but unfortunately I didn't realise that it had picked up some black grease off the toothing of the stairlift which we inherited...

Just to update on this, we finally got a new boiler installed last week by a local company. The engineer said the casing was "rotten" - I think he was quite surprised at how bad it was - and wondered if it had been running at unusually high temperatures or something. The real damage was at the...

Yes, I think we're probably inclining towards a straight swap at the moment. I looked into electric boilers and did one manufacturer's "can we fit one" test, which said no, they couldn't, as we didn't have the necessary space. Plus they are far more expensive - and if the immersion heater is...

I'm not sure whether you're in a house or a flat? We had a shared mains supply with the downstairs neighbours, and if they flushed the loo our (electric) shower would run cold immediately.

You can try, but it didn't work when I tried it in a similar situation recently. The plumber using grips did work.

The fault was that the pilot light had gone out and that the reset button wasn't working, so we - including the engineer - initially thought it might just be a spare part that was needed, until he dismantled the thing. Believe me, the corrosion is so bad in places that what's left is probably...

Trouble is, we have a vulnerable adult in the property. Most local companies can't commit to urgent call-out if we lose heating in the same way BG can.

Hello. Having mentioned in another thread that our condensing boiler (Potterton Gold) has just been condemned, it's got me wondering. We moved in last summer and got the boiler checked (and I thought, serviced, although we've since been issued a service reminder) then under a British Gas...

Thank you both for your feedback. Can't be rushed into anything - we finally have an electrician booked in for the next couple of weeks, so this will have to wait until after! We only moved in last summer, so haven't tried the immersion heater yet. I hope it still works okay, although at the...

Discovered, on getting an engineer in to fix what I'd thought was probably a minor fault preventing the boiler from working, that it has had to be condemned (and yes, justifiably - you should see the insides! Ye gods ...). The house (probably 1000-odd sq. ft.) is a fairly typical 3-bed layout...

In view of the problems we've already had with the bathroom in the house we moved into last year, we're considering a partial re-jigging of the bathroom - refitting the bath and shower. The house is a fairly typical 3-bed layout upstairs: two large bedrooms along the party wall; a smaller...

A picture of the situation behind the bath, in case anyone's interested: You can see the functioning bath support strut at rear left - I believe the one which has collapsed is attached to that block of wood at bottom right. As you can see, the piping is very close to the shell of the bath.