Recent content by thepinkwaffle

The noise is coming from the boiler and the pipes directly above. I'll have more of a listen/take the body off the boiler tonight. I may well replace the timer with a wireless remote thermostat in due course but don't think I can stretch to C-plan. As for the anti-gravity valve, I haven't...

Its some old baxi, I'll have to look up the model when I get home. I think I'll try the stat on a lower temp, see if I can stop it boiling. There wasn't any valve looking things obvious on top of the boiler where the four pipes are and the pump are but maybe its an internal thing.

I'm pretty sure the plumber flushed the cylinder pipes as well as the CH as that was why he was called in the first place. The hot water tank wasn't getting hot but the CH worked. He may have just had to drain down and refill to clear the blockage, but I remember something about jacking in a...

ok great, that's useful stuff. Previous plumbers had suggested c-plan but didn't really seem to know what they were on about. I don't really want to convert anything, I just want to get it working as it should. Having hot water and CH in winter is no problem. I just need to find a way of...

For ages the hot water didn't work, then we had a plumber come and clean an epic amount of sludge out the system. After that CH and hot water worked, but now its getting warmer we need to turn off the CH. The plumber said he couldn't understand our timer, whenever its on water only then the...