Recent content by John123456

I've recently moved into a house where the previous owner has painted all of the coving with vinyl silk emulsion. They have used a brush rather than a roller which has left some very pronounced brush marks. I've sanding the coving down and applied matt emulsion with a gloss roller but as it...

The new Drayton MiTime programmer and wireless room thermostat have been installed. Very straightforward really. Simply a case of removing the old backplate and wiring the new one up in the same way. All done in 30 minutes including fixing the thermostat to the wall. The pre bound wireless...

On Whitespirit66's recommendation I spoke to the technical boys at Drayton today and they said that their MiTime RF pack 2 is exactly what I need. It has exactly the same backplate wiring as my old Tempus 3 and that any idiot could swap the old backplate for the new one. Also, there is no...

Many thanks all, The heating engineer said that it was a Y plan and everything that I have read suggests that it is. The valve has 3 pipes, one from the pump, one to the hot water cylinder and one going down through the floor. I just think that's it's a really old programmer and it...

I've recently moved into a new house and have two related problems with the current central heating system. It's an open vent Y plan system, so I've got 2 tanks in the loft and a cylinder, pump and diverted valve in the airing cupboard. The boiler is a Potterton Prima F60. The programmer is a...