Recent content by iany

SO... had our windows replaced a few years ago and the min bedroom ones always had a bit of mold inside on the sill, they've been out and looked at them various times and although improvements were seen there's on that really still quite bad. they did seem keen to sort the issue, been out a...

So... Took it off the wall so I could have a proper look. The temp end comes out ok, but looking at how it's fitted it has a brass insert that's screwed into the body and the thread inside that which the therm asjuster screws into is press fitted into it, if it's the same the other end I'm...

Yep it's a bar, it's on the left side , flow one, the temp one is on the right hand end

Hi Guys, Mira atom shower we have seems to have issues, flow valve im guessing as its stiff to turn on, almost impossible at times. I've tried to remove the old one (after taking the control knob and plastic cover off) using a 17mm spanner it just turns (quite tightly) and doesnt appear to...

Thanks for all the replies and advice guys, much appreciated. Planning to cut out and replace where the partially blocked pipe is as suggested, then I'll leave well alone and get the boiler swapped ( by a plumber ) at some point in the not too distant future, will certainly make sure they...

Thanks again, I'm tempted to drain it down, fix this blockage by replacing that section and refill with some treatment in it (de scale maybe?), the boiler bangs and clanks a lot too so guessing it's full of crud, using a magnet to trace down the pipes the only place it really sticks is at this...

Two more questions then (sorry!) Boiler cut out today again, during the night i asume as heating was cold first thing, could this cause it? It's been colder weather and i asume that was the cut out cause, boiler is in the attached garage so get cold in there. Q2 can I use speedfit on CH? Would...

Thanks Is it worth trying to clear the pipe with a flexible wire or rod? as I can probably get one down from the connection in the loft down the pipe but not over towards the pump where it branches off.

Hi Guys, Quick question really i hope, in our house we have a gravity fed HW and CH system, with a gas boiler , electric pump and 3 way valve. boiler in garage, pump, valve, tank in airing cupboard and 2 tank in the loft, one for water and the other the expansion. The system works but boiler...

I thought that too, the original had a switch on the back to run like that or as seperate systems, I tried to set it to gravity and both worked as expected, when set back to normal it had the issue, thinking about it maybe the fault is in the region of the switch within that circuit as that's...

took a gamble and just grabbed a new programmer from screwfix, its working now :) got a slightly different model as it was cheaper and also worried that the others may be prone to issues.... thanks for your help in diagnosing this, i've learnt a fair bit along the way about how the black...

as far as i remember its no different after fitting it and that was the reason i swapped the head off the mid position valve. stripped the programmer and no obvious broken bits but its all on a PCB so hard to tell, cleaned contacts and replaced but no change, gonna try a new programmer and...

that's the weird thing... if i turn on HW the white wire gets power.... its almost as if the turning on HW kicks the CH relay inside the timer box into life?? the voltage at the room stat is dead unless HW is on, once on that's live and as a result when activated it sends a voltage down...

so some progress thanks to those diagrams! heating on only and there's no power to 2 out of 3 of the feeds expected, these being the one from the room stat to the valve and the one that goes from valve to boiler. if i put the heating on the room stat gets power (only 24 volts is that...

that's very useful thanks :) this morning both came on as per the timer, they're off now, when i get a second i'm going to get the meter and see what's going on when i want just heating only as that seems to be the issue, the odd thing is that it works when HW is also on but not separately...