Recent content by orangecandle47

I'm back again... So we ordered the cartridge that was suggested, and asked someone to fit it and do a chemical flush if needed. The good news is the flush isn't needed, but the bad news is that he has broken the new cartridge and the old one when tightening them up after inserting them. He...

We have a magnaclean on the heating return and a lime beater on the cold inlet, if we maintain these (!) should that be sufficient? Any ideas what sort of cost a chemical flush would be? Sorry if these are daft questions, just trying to not over pay through our naivety!

Thanks, didn't know this! Should he have known which having looked at the boiler previously? He ordered one which turned out to be the wrong one after coming out last week. Tried the heating flow pipe (well, the pipe furthest left!) and that got hot when the hot tap was turned on (heating...

Thank you very much, that is what we thought. This will sort the leak, however, he indicated that what is causing the lack of hot water is stuff clogging up inside this valve, which he intends to resolve by draining the boiler and using some sort of corrosive to get rid of this stuff. How...

Thanks. Here is a picture of the diverter valve, the dark lines are where the leak has discoloured the metal. Sorry, not sure how to rotate the image!

Hi all, First time posting here, hope someone can help. I have had a look and found similar issues but not quite the same in the forums. For a couple of weeks we have had intermittent hot water coming through, sometimes it will be completely fine, other times it isn't coming out hot but...