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I have a 30 year old Glow Worm economy plus boiler which has been fairly reliable over this period. It is just on morning and late afternoon at the moment for hot water only. A couple of days ago the metal casing has started to vibrate when boiler fires up. If I put my hand on the front of the...

Our cold water tank has been overflowing, mainly at night but in the day today also. Last night I turned the water off to the tank and on again this morning. My plumber can't get until next week. Looked at YouTube videos which seemed to concentrate on just changing the inner part of the valve...

Thanks , tried that, seems to have stopped. How often should system be topped up with inhibitor? Water I drained off was clear.

Thanks, will try try that. How often should the inhibitor be renewed? The water I drained off was still clear.

I cleaned out my f&e tank and added fresh inhibitor as it was 20 odd months since I last did it. I drained some water off via the valve on rad in kitchen, see photo, now though it won't stop dripping, never had this problem last time I did it. Have tightened it up as much as it will go. Any...

It's an Economy plus.

I have a 30 yr old Glow Worm gas boiler that was in our new build house when we bought it. It has been serviced annually. It is a conventional boiler. Our house is a 3 bed detached with double glazing and a good level of loft insulation, have topped it up myself. When build it had block foam...

Yes it has a cap on. Weird thing is the leak was noticed when rain was coming from west or south west, house faces west front, east back but after the rain this week it has been coming from the east or north east and the flue has not dripped into the bowl under the flue in the loft. Need to wait...

It has never been flow tested. Did not know anything about that. Gas fire is not normally used, last tim about 3 yrs ago when boiler packed up, took 3 days to get the part, this was during a run of extremely freezing weather. What does a flow test entail and how could a leak be linked with that?

Thanks, have had roofers strip around flue pipe as there was a separate leak, they did not cure it and had to come back and applied sealant around all the joins. This leak from flue seems to have started afterwards. Have asked them to come back again, hopefully on Monday, to inspect flue pipe...

I have seen a previous post about something similar, not sure if it applies to my problem. I have had a roofer twice to fix a leak around where flue exits the roof. He had a second go as there was still a leak from somewhere. Applied a lot of sealant. The leak was not from inside the flue pipe...

I have read previous posts on bad smells, not sure where the bad drain smell, (I think), is coming from in our bathroom. House was built in 1995 and we have been here since then. This has not happened before. Smell is just in bathroom, en suite shower room is next door but no smell there. Cannot...

It's been in place 30 yrs, too late to change it now though. I see Screwfix do a low profile u bend, will as plumber when he comes if it will fit.

Hi, thanks for that info. Very useful.

Thanks for info. Yes going to see if leak can be seen, did try to get some paper underneath but pipe too close to floor board each side. Will try to push a cloth under. Glad the hot pipe is not leaking as you say.

We noticed a stain on our utility room ceiling and worked out it was from the bath. We do not use the bath but flush the u bend out weekly to stop it drying out but only say half a kettle full. Managed to get bath panel off after a struggle. Surprised to see the hole in the floor to fit the u...

Ok, that's interesting. Didn't think of that. Thank you.

I am an oldie surfer, I have a basic Palicomp desktop pc running windows 10, bought in 2016 for about £260 odd I believe. It cannot update to Windows 11. I only do basic stuff on this and a Fire tablet. I was thinking of getting the Palicomp AMD Cobra which Computer Active magazine recommends...

Could I use scotch lock connectors?

Thanks to you both for that info.