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The fire strip is an intumescent strip that often looks like a draught excluder recessed into the edge of the door - all the way round. Intumescent materials expand in a fire to several times their original size. This then holds the door in the frame and restricts the flow of hot gasses and...

Now that my central heating is sorted thanks to this forum, I thought I'd try and sort the shower. It's a 10 yr old Mira 915a surface mounted thermostatic shower with falling connections (exposed). The pump failed recently and this has been replaced with a Wickes £99 jobby. Its a positve...

I understand what you are saying but I cannot fault the guy. To me, the end consumer, he appeared competent and conscientous. Out of interest though - why bathroom rads especially? Key was my word btw but he did say "not commoned correctly".

UPDATE BG visited again last week and flushed the system for a third time. That took up the morning. The engineer then spent the afternoon balancing the system. He discovered the bathroom rad was the key to the system. The system is not "commoned" correctly and if the bathroom rad valves are...

2 port valves - are these the Honeywell motorised valves? If so then yes, system has 2. Downstairs rads will heat if upstairs are turned off. Rads were flushed with the powerflush connected across the tails of one of the downstairs rads. Each rad isolated in turn. Primary circuit (as...

£440 for the powerflush. All in price for as long as the job takes as I understand it.

My system is mains gas, Netaheat Profile 60e with 10 rads, 4 upstairs and 6 down. I have a BG 3 star maintenance plan. Events go like this:- System functioning okay bar one rad downstairs. Boiler keeps tripping out on overheat though. BG do annual visit 5/1/06. Diagnose problem with...