Recent content by Spanky2k

An installer for Worcester Bosch just came by now to have a look and quote (I only requested the visit late last night so impressive turnaround). He agreed that what I was suggesting made a lot of sense. All the pipework needed is already in the cellar and exposed so installation would be about...

Thanks guys. I don't think the engineer was saying this based on the infrastructure in the house as it's a bit of a mess. He said there should be another valve with a system like ours for one. He was saying it based on his experience of combis as a whole, not really specifically to our house...

Hey all, I'm trying to get my head round this. We've got an ageing system with an 18 year old 24kW system boiler and a similarly aged megaflow water tank. The boiler has been on its last legs for a while and I want to replace it. The problem is that I don't want it in the same place as it is now...

I've done some more investigating and I'm pretty sure the pumps are working. At least, I can feel them vibrating. There's one by the boiler and one in the cellar next to our water tank. I *think* the motorised valve is ok because I thought that the default on them is hot water only instead of...

Oh apologies, it's not a combi, it's a system boiler with a hot water cylinder.

Hi all, Still trying to keep this old boiler alive for another year or two when we hope to build an extension and move the boiler location (would rather get a new one then). It's a Main HE system boiler. We have separate hot water tank in the cellar. We've had an intermittent issue with the...

No, it’s not been serviced as long as we’ve lived here and the house was unoccupied for about a year before we moved in.

I'll try to answer everyone's questions! As far as I can see, there's no way to turn off the cold water tank just on it's own. The hot taps all behave as they should. As far as I understand it, the hot water system is mains water driven i.e. it uses mains water pressure to push the hot water...

Unfortunately not as there are no valves on the hot pipe coming out of the top of my water tank. However, that is a good call as the pipework around the top of the hot water tank, while not super accessible, is a lot easier to get to than the shower mixer so I could drain the tank and put in a...

Sorry, yeah that was a mistake. It's hot water out of the cold tap. I originally thought it might be something like in your case i.e. badly placed pipes. However, if the boiler's been on for any length of time recently, it's scaldingly hot. Actually steaming, that's not an exaggeration.

We've had this issue for as long as we've lived here i.e. for most of the year, when you turn on the cold tap, it'll run warm for up to a few minutes before cooling down. Unfortunately, with it being cold now and the central heating being on a lot of the time, the water that comes out the cold...

Until I saw your messages, I had no idea there were different kinds of pumps. I just looked up what was a good replacement for a Grundfos UPS 15-50 pump and I came up with the Grundfos UPS3 I installed. I had no idea Bronze meant materials used. Thought it was a model term only. Anyway, new pump...

I got some new seals but I quickly discovered that there was no way I was going to be able to get the pump connectors open and cleaned in situ so I ended up just buying a new pump and new pump connectors. The amount of limescale on this old thing is really quite impressive, so see a few photos...