Recent content by Groover75

Hi, I need to leave my Victorian house empty for three months during winter. The insurance company requires that I keep the temp at a min of 15C, OK so I need to leave the conventional boiler on. I will insulate the boiler condensate pipe and the pipe to the single outside tap. Never had any...

Some idiot in the past extended the hot water to a new utility room. They ran the pipe inside the bathroom waste pipe... this broke pouring water down the drain so the large leak was not visible anywhere. Now fixed.

So to confirm, by closing the DHW outlet valve at the boiler the rads heat up. Open the valve again and the rads cool down. Water pressure has stabilized and held. Any ideas? The installer is reluctantly coming out tomorrow but they are adamant it is not their problem so I need as much...

Sigh.... Viessmann came out and said nothing is wrong with the boiler. The boiler installer says it is nothing to do with them because there is a water leak somewhere in the house. The boiler will only turn the heating on if the DHW is turned off, and vice versa. After I charged the system...

East Yorkshire. Will try the manual method and hopefully that manages the problem until it can be fixed. :)

Many thanks for the replies. The installer company is closed until Jan 2nd. :(

Thanks for the reply. It's wireless control - Viessmann 100. The control unit shows that it is calling for heat, and the wireless light occasionally flashes. I also re-paired it with the boiler.

Yes, that works! All rads heat up. After setting it back to 'off' the rads cool down again. I can see that is just a test mode so I then checked the burner output setting and it is already on the maximum of 74%.

Hello, I have one of these combi-boilers - two months old. Some time during last night the heating stopped working. Hot water still works. Pressure gauge shows zero. Following the steps in the installation manual I closed the two heating valves, put the boiler into fill mode and refilled the...

Thanks for the replies. We had our bathroom remodeled four weeks ago. The contractor didn't mention anything about it. I would assume they used this valve. I don't know the history of the valve unfortunately.

Sorry for such a basic question. The cupboard with the hot water tank and the cupboard with the non-combi boiler are a mess of copper piping and I am trying to make sense of it. I want to replace a washer in a downstairs hot tap. There is a pipe that goes to the loft. This pipe has a valve in...

I have a three year old Hotpoint washing machine. After a full day's laundry it is sitting in perhaps half a cup of water on the floor, directly underneath. I took the top off and I put some detergent in the drawer then ran it on rinse cycle. When finished I looked from the top and the bottom...

Update: at the start of September 2015 we got an electrician out. He replaced the entire panel with all RCBOs. In the nearly 14 months since then... not a single circuit trip. No problems on any circuit whatsoever. Many thanks for the helpful suggestions. I am very glad to have this annoying...

I have a concrete freestanding coal bunker with a large plywood lid. The plywood is rotted and water is leaking in, so I need to renew the entire lid. The current lid is held on with two hinges bolted into the concrete top. The previous owner covered the plywood in tar paper and just overlapped...

Thanks for the replies. There is one empty space on the panel but it's so old it's not possible to get anything for it's particular form factor anymore apparently... I was hoping there was some clever way of combining lots of patience with spending a modest amount to get a smoking gun when...