Recent content by TomFoster

Thanks for the help - I have done quite a lot of radiators before and had never come across that type of fitting. I should have taken a photo but stupidly did not!

My sister has a small towel radiator that appears to be leaking slightly from one of the 'tails'. I removed the radiator, only to find that there is no obvious way to remove the tails, something I haven't seen before - instead of the usual large allen key-shaped hole there were just two small...

We have had a Visonic wireless alarm system for around three years, it has been fine until recently when the siren has been going off at random times in the night. When I disarm it and go to the control panel there is no record of the alarm being triggered, or of any faults. Could this mean...

Thanks, that's what I assumed. I think it must be the heat exchanger, just weird that it only happens overnight?! The boiler is 13 years old so probably time for a new one...

No water from the PRV pipe. The pressure only increases from around 1.5 bar to 2 bar, which is what it's always done.

I wonder if anyone can help with a strange problem I've had in the last couple of days... I have a plumber booked to come out, but not till Friday and I would like some idea of what the problem might be in advance... On Monday morning the boiler pressure was pretty much flat. There had been no...

It's a small separate fuse box from the main one, that just has the kitchen circuits on it. The RCD on it trips out.

I have a problem with an AEG Competence oven - the main oven heats up OK but after a few minutes it trips the power. My cousin is an electrician and he checked the circuits and things and suggested the thermostat might be the problem. I replaced this today and still have exactly the same...