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    Replacing radiators with same sized rads

    If your completely repiping both pipes and valves, then I usually just measure from the bottom of rad to top of brackets on the radiator (say that’s 21inches) and then measure that size from skirting board up. That will be where top of the bracket will go. So the idea is the rad will be flush...
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    Kitchen "shower" tap repair / replacement

    should be able to just change the head, a quick google search for "kitchen tap rinser" came up this at £10.68 from amazon...
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    Replacing radiators with same sized rads

    as post above says you can buy extensions tails to make up the size or better still, lift a few floorboards and move pipes 40mm, hopefully some play in them especially if its 10mm pipe....myson have imperial size radiators, but some can be triple the price of a standard size for the sake of...
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    Vertical black lines appeared in toilet bowl

    remove lid off the cistern and my guess would be the siphon should be the twist and click style, you will find the rubber washer at the bottom of the siphon will be starting to perish and allowing a small trickle of water into the bowl, taking dirty cistern water with it, screws bolts etc that...
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    Pressure increase on Glow worm Ultracom 30cxi

    Has he tried/ checked the expansion vessel?? That’d be the first thing to check...drain, pump up to 1bar, repressurise boiler then bleed all rads. Easy job for a heating engineer
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    Boiler noise

    If your running hot water and it’s still doing the noise then it’s nothing to do with trvs. Get your plumber/gas safe engineer out to check Venturi and gas pressures
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    Boiler noise

    Get a gas safe engineer to check/clean Venturi. Could also be a possible gas valve issue. Ideal logic gas valves cant be adjusted, it would need to be replaced? Do you get it serviced annually.
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    Combination gas valve.

    Multimeter, ohms setting. Check on gas valve pins/terminals and/or check solenoid
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    Potterton Hall effect sensor connector

    check the actuator/ and cartridge. Common fault.
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    Potterton Hall effect sensor connector

    If your turn the dial is to hw tap, the boiler fires up? Even though no tap is opened ?
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    Potterton Hall effect sensor connector

    Is your boiler firing up without a demand? No hot water running or ch thermostat up?
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