Recent content by gtmcclinton

I have a strange situation. I have a stopcock under my kitchen sink which turns off the water in the kitchen, but not the bathroom. I've heard that the main stopcock for my type of house is in the loft, but I can't find it. I need to fit a new shower, so the water needs to go off, so...

The far left pipe does get very hot with the tap on, and the temp gauge tops off at about 81 deg c. and stays around there. However, with the temp on the gauge ramping up (from about 40 before the tap is turned on), the tap water goes from cold to warm to tepid to warm. There is a pipe...

I have a 3 year old Vaillant combi boiler. Not sure of the model, but it is the type with the lcd digital temperature display on the front, along with an analogue clock setting doobrie. This problem started today, as a bath full of hot water was ran last night. No changes have been made...

Cheers kev, found it and all is sweet now. So should that isolator turn off my cold water? Cos there's a valve under my kitchen sink that turns off the hot water, but not the cold. Never been able to turn the cold water off. Which seems a bit dangerous to me

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I had to take two radiators off when decorating, and now that they are back on, I have a 0 pressure reading on my boiler, and no hot water. The boiler is less than 3 years old and is the type with a digital readout on the front. I think it is the type with the built in fill point. I've taken...

The lights temporarily go out, as long as the wires are shorted. No fuse blows, and when you break the connection the lights come back on. It seems a crude system, because if all the lights were out anyway, you would be no better off. Makes me think it's been cobbled together, rather than...

When decorating stairs and hall in my flat, (I moved in about a year ago and I've just located my round tuit) I noticed there were two doorbell wires running down to the front door. One had been cut and was not connected to the doorbell switch. I traced it back and it disappeared into the...