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    advice on sistering rafters and birds mouth cut

    Hi All Can anyone help. The wife wants roof windows in the bedroom. The pitch on one side of the of the roof is 15 degrees. the other side a lot steeper. The length ,wall plate to knee high load bearing stud wall is 4.2m on top of 450 thick load bearing stone wall, well will be once purling is...
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hi folks just an update and a big thanks to all that have replied and for the posters on the other sites. Well the pressure stayed at 1.4 with the heating isolated and the hot water on,so that side of it seems fixed thankfully. Just psyching myself up to start taking a few floorboards up and...
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hi AGAS yes was set. But think the two mm extra turn on the screw may have fixed it,well the pressure dropping on the hot water that is. It seems to have stayed at 1.4 now for the last ten mins which is longer than it was before. How stupid do I feel...
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hi Tony Just triple checked the ch valves one turned an extra mm or two no more though,maybe that was the cause for pressure dropping,will carry on watching Thank you
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    if this helps it was on 0.4 pressure just now,open the valves to refill it and it jumped to 1.9 in a second or two.The engineer fitted a new gauge and sensor as well,so hopefully they should be working right.Starting to think it might be easier if their was a leak under the floorboards....
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hi Tony. yes their closed,well i hope they are,Ive turned them as far as they will go.Pretty certain the are. But doubting myself Yes watched it and it lasted for about 20 minutes until dropped. Thank you
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Ive also taped a finger from a rubber glove to the bottom of the outside pipe.To see if that catches anything.
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hi AGAS Thanks for replying.Well I just isolated the Central heating under the boiler and just left the hot water on,to see if it will rise and the pressure is still dropping. Help
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    just a thought could it be air pockets in the system.As it dose not seem to take to long to fill pressure back up again. Thank you
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hello folks its me again. Engineers been again. definitely didn't seem to happy about having to come back,something about losing money if they get called back. Anyway long story short he changed the filling link and prv. Thanks TCC Refilled and left. I bled the rads and topped back up again...
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Thanks TCC Feel a bit more confident now for when I get them back.Have had icy stairs from the other half for the last few days,about potentially tearing the floors up. Fingers crossed and thanks again,Will let you know tomoz,how it goes. All the best Your a star
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Will do thanks AGAS,they say they come in threes,just hope if their is a third one its not a leak.. Thanks again
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Thats great thanks again.Will call them back in the morning. Would in your experience, that cause the pressure to drop when the heatings on.
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Thank you TCC Will the filling link be under their,Were fix it policy Thanks again
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    Help with boiler pressure please

    Hello folks Can anyone help please. Im having problems with a valliant echo tech plus (I think 928,cannot remember the the exact number). It lost pressure a month ago with the heating and h/w on Refilled it no problems up until last week. The pressure dropped and the boiler started leaking...
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