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My fibreglass roof is leaking where the layers overlap. This is just by the guttering. Noticed as water was dripping between the guttering and the roof. Annoyingly had the roof recoated just a year ago. The cracked bit does not seem to be more than a couple of inches long. Is there any DIY quick...

So I went for the Vaillant repair and care scheme as it was marginally more expensive than the fixed price repair and covers me for 6 months. Called yesterday morning and engineer was there today. He replaced a bunch of parts right off the bat - pcb, gas section, venturi, electrode. So can't...

Can only speculate on that. The insurance outsourced it to a third party claims handler who outsourced it to a local firm. So could even be an issue at the local end. They might get paid their call out fee regardless and could be charging inflated prices for the parts in case it actually gets...

This looks promising, was not aware it existed, many thanks!

Getting it as well

System one with seperate tank.

As it was an engineer sent by insurance I did not get a copy of their report but I've been told it's to replace the pump, mass flow sensor and some cable.

Update - 50% sucess. Pushed the bulb in and generous amount of wd40 sprayed in the crevices from the bottom and from the inside where the bulb sits. This managed to work on one of the fittings with a good hammer on a screwdriver wrapped with tape after a few days. Previous attempt without...

Hi all, I have a 10 year old Valiant Ecotec 37kw system boiler with tank that's been causing some issues last couple of winters when it gets really cold. Latest was when we had the cold snap a couple of weeks ago, it stopped working randomly with some error messages. Managed to reset it but...

Trying to attach photos of the actual lugs and tech issue with image size. Hopefully will follow shortly

Sorry hopefully this is clearer - the two lugs slot through this gap and twist into place. Good idea about kitchen gloves.

I've been replacing bulbs in my downlights and some of them are siezed closed, will not turn to pop out. I had good luck with a squirt of wd40 in the gap for some of them but the last two are being stubborn bar stewards. Any ideas on how to loosen them open? Photo of one in case that helps...

Interesting, with that mk won't have anywhere to readily connect the earth to? currently it's connected to the back of the switch. I came across the ebay one, but I wanted the single gang offset to one side to fit the aqara unit over the existing space. Will message them and see if they can...

This is the existing back box