Recent content by notmyforte

I'm now wondering about the ignition. Some part associated with it was replaced last year, I now seem to remember. I think it showed a "no ignition" fault then. What if the gas inlet valve were to be sticking? (In the 60s they were just a conical point and a cone-shaped receptor, the pointed...

When the IG engineer came to replace a hose (which he didn't have) and do the annual service (which his call-out wasn't listed as), he said about a little propeller might be getting stuck for the HW, and about radiator valves and thermostat/boiler communication for the CH. But it is with both...

Thanks for the reply. The boiler has always seemed slow to me as an electronic device, and it taking tens of seconds, a minute perhaps, to respond has been very much the case. At the moment, I have the idea it happens more when it is starting from cold, but I shall have to correlate events to...

This is a DIY find the problem rather than a DIY do the job post. The central heating is not on and the boiler may have been cold for some hours. I run the kitchen hot tap (to do some washing up) and the boiler does not fire. Fill a kettle several times (and save water for other uses), and...

I thought I found quite a number calling it "Carnoustie". I've written to three companies and one has already said I need to go back to the original supplier. I shall need to write to the housing association from which I bought the property. The double glazing was installed seven years ago, so I...

OK, thanks for that. I now believe I've also established that the door style is Carnoustie. I haven't exactly found anyone claiming to be ready to supply parts for doors to the general consumer and I haven't so far found the manufacturer.

My door would look a little smarter if I could replace the beading round the glass, both outside and inside. It looks to me as if it will come out easily using a paint/wallpaper scraper. Will that be the case? Where can I buy replacement beading? If I succeed in finding a supplier, how can I...

Probably not: http://www.nhbc.co.uk/Builders/ProductsandServices/TechZone/NHBCStandards/TechnicalGuidanceDocuments/81/filedownload,37131,en.pdf Given it's an ex-council property, he probably went on to do cladding on tower blocks!

I think the raised ridge tiles are vent tiles. As you can see, the stack vent connection doesn't go vertically up through the loft. If the blocked drain wasn't the reason the smell only became noticeable in late autumn, perhaps a rat (I've found one in the kitchen waste bin before) got up on...

It was shortened quite bit, and, if it's not just the pipe bending, it pushes fairly easily across the few millimetres of play that there is. I can't smell anything much, but one tends not to with the high winds we're having. I'm thinking the reason nothing was smelled until autumn was the fact...

Sounds like it's going to be a matter of what experience teaches!