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    Painting over fire damaged

    Yeah, It was a plastic grow lamp that dropped onto plastic propagators and that went up. Contained in one room thankfully.
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    Painting over fire damaged

    Had a (fortunately small) fire here last week. It's being done on the insurance so I expect they'll appoint a decorator to redo it. Question is, should it be sealed with something like Zinsser Bin before overpainting ?
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    Pump keeps turning on and off when hot water selected

    Ah, right, ta. It's a closed system. Hot water and heating can be activated independantly. Boiler is potterton. there is a single valve above the pump sending water to the CH via a 22mm pipe and to the cylinder via a 15mm pipe.
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    Pump keeps turning on and off when hot water selected

    which informations require you ?
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    Pump keeps turning on and off when hot water selected

    Had an issue the other day where the boiler had locked out. reset it and turned HW on manually. After a while I noticed that the boiler/pump was doing the following : pump runs for a couple of seconds boiler clicks a couple of times pump stops. Repeat every 10 seconds or so. Checking the...
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    Close coupled cistern leaking

    thanks chaps. Is it also ok to blame the wife for the leak by claiming she "sits on it funny" ?
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    Close coupled cistern leaking

    My close coupled cistern has started leaking all the time, not just on flushing. I believe this is the seal between the bottom of the cistern and the siphon but should I replace the donut washer as well while I've got it off ?
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    Blow out valve question

    Thanks for the info. CH is at higher pressure than it should be so I was just letting a bit out. I think I might have let too much in when I changed a rad last week. the valve I have is spring loaded and when I turn it, it releses a bit of pressure then "clicks" and shuts and the heating...
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    Blow out valve question

    My CH system has an expansion vessel and on top is a pressure gauge and a blowout valve with a spring loaded manual knob (ie open the valve and it lets a bit of pressure out). Can anyone advise, does the valve let out all the time it's open, or does it only let out until a certain pressure is...
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    Notifiable works

    Thanks for the answer, the cable that has been replaced is between two sockets, had evidence of impact damage and has been replaced with 2.5mm T&E. Oh, and I would not take legal advice from a Police Officer or BCO as it's frightening how often they misunderstand or simply don't know so make...
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    Notifiable works

    Am I right in thinking that if I replace a socket in the kitchen and find the cable to be faulty then I am also allowed to replace the cable without notifying the council ?
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    washing machine waste pipe

    Thanks very much.
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    washing machine waste pipe

    I want to move the washing machine and the waste pipe will be a 6m run. I understand that the max length it should be is 3m for 40mm pipe. If I put in a 50mm pipe, will I be ok, as long as I have sufficient drop ?
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    Hot water doesn't stay hot.

    It's not a vented system, there is no header tank. I hadn't considered it being a dodgy tap; I have mixers on the bath, shower, basin (all fairly new) and kitchen sink (probably 25 years old). Would a dodgy tap let cold into the hot when turned off, or only when turned on ?
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    Hot water doesn't stay hot.

    I have a pressurised system with a separate hot water cylinder and a problem has developed with my CH/HW in that if I go for a shower in the middle of the day, the water isn't very hot. The heating and water comes on from around 0600-0900 and if I get in the shower anytime up until about 1100...
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