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We need to re-upholster some of our dining room chairs. They have a ply base about 5 mm thick and we intend to staple new cover material on to them (stapled underneath so cannot be seen). The electric staplers I have seen TacWise (EL53 and EL140) and Stanley TRE555 use either a "53" or a "140"...

Just to say thanks to everyone who replied, te input was very useful. I managed to check off all the components in the system - I took the pump to pieces and discovered the impellor was full of cotton thread or string, so although it was spinning it was not pumping any water, hence no CH...

From memory, when both CH and HW are selected the valve the goes to the mid position, but we still only get hot water. I'll try out some of the other suggestions as well. I think the actuator motor in the valve is working OK, but I'll check again. I did try and take the pump to bits, but the...

Thanks. I'll check out your suggestion, however the bolier does fire, but switches itself off after 10 seconds or so. It's as if it is overheating - I don't think the water is getting through the CH circuit correctly.

My central heating system is causing me problems. The boiler fires OK, but I can only get hot water. The central heating comes on for a few seconds and then the boiler switches off if I program it just for CH. The pump seems to be working, well it is making pump like noises! (it’s a Celsia...