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Thanks very much for your reply. I'll make enquiries about a fixed price repair. It is odd that it varies with temperature, I can visualise a few ways this could happen but not knowing how it all actually works I can't really come up with a sensible theory. In the good old days etc.. I...

Thanks very much for your reply. If this was at my home I'd be in there like a shot, but it's in the kitchen at the church where I work so liability issues mean I don't diy anything involving mains power. I'm hoping exactly that somebody might have seen this before, so I can get an idea...

Hi. Wonder if anybody can help with this please? We have a baumatic p632ss single oven. It seems that when it hits the temperature set on the dial, it trips the RCD. If I switch off at the wall, I can then reset the breaker. Otherwise i have to wait a minute or so. Setting the temperature...

Hi and thanks very much for the suggestions. The water board have a meter and cock in the pavement so I think the stopcock in our garden is my problem. Am I likely to damage the water pipework pulling the chamber pipe out? Is it better to try to crack it, or use another method?...thanks again...

Hi. Wonder if anybody could help me with this please? Our outside stopcock (in our garden, waterboard stop in pavement outside) is leaking fairly quickly from the stuffing gland. Our house was built in the late 1920's / early '30's, the chamber is earthenware about 4" dia. It looks like...

UThank you again. Ill do that and see what I find. Much appreciated..

Thanks very much for your help. The flue is boxed in (with access panels to inspect the joints) but I know I saw a box saying the flue had a builtin fall. Tbh I dont really see how that works if more than one section is involved, but I'm not an installer. I guess from what you've said though...

Sorry i dont seem to be able to edit that but any help / suggestions greatly appreciated.

I wonder if somebody could help me with a condensate problem please? When i moved in with my gf i rented my flat out. Council gave me a grant to bring it up to state a tenant could live in it, and picked the contractor to do the work. So new boiler was installed by an engineer based about 40...