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My daughter is moving to a rented student house soon, it has a condenser boiler with the drainage pipe going outside to a drain. The pipe is over 6 feet long and after last winters weather I am concerned that it may freeze up. (it must have done last winter). What insulation is best for these...

I have a 15 yr old mixer tap on my kitchen sink with seperate hot and cold knob type handles. water is running slowly from the join where the swivel part of the tap joins the main body of the tap. Is this repairable and if so how, It is only a slow drip at the moment but as with most leaks I am...

Have sent a 'thanks' to you but another thought has come to mind.Can they now change these valves without having to drain down again, I seem to remember from somewhere that with some valves you can do this?

Have sent a 'thanks' to you but another thought has come to mind.Can they now change these valves without having to drain down again, I seem to remember from somewhere that with some valves you can do this?

Could someone please help with 2 queries? 2 weeks ago I had the 3 way valve replaced after it had seized in the hot water position. We had an eon engineer as we had a service contract with them. He replaced the acl drayton valve that had been on since the house was built nearly 15 years ago...

Hi Hugh- I don't know, can the valve be wedged to ch? It is only a plastic lever and I wouldn't like to try and force it down. Can it be done manually?

Thanks Tony, will have to wait for e-on bloke, can't come until Friday for heavens sake!

I have a Glow worm conventional gas boiler that is nearly 15 years old and has perfomed very well with only 2 repairs in all that time, the last one last Oct. when a small bird entered a broken flue pipe cover and jammed the fan, e-on engineer had never seen that before. Anyway we went out...

I know this is going to sound like a silly question to you electrical experts. I have a single socket extension lead with 2 metres of cable, it is rated as 5 amps, if I wanted to plug in an appliance with a 13 amp rating why can't I just put a 13 amp fuse in the extension lead plug? What sort of...

Not sure if this is the right forum but hope someone can advise. I have had a quote for the fitting of two ERA patio door locks. The quote stated one and a half hours labour, would it really take that long to fit two locks, one top one bottom to an alluminium sliding door?

Thanks for advice all.

This may seem a silly question, but if one is using a power tool on an extension lead does the RCD need to go on the end of the extension lead or on the wall socket in the house, or doesn't it matter?

Thanks for replies. Yes I cleaned out f&e tank properly before refilling. On bleeding upstairs rads, all on same level, water comes out with a good pressure. Cold feed pipe to pump was one of the pipes replaced, system had a good flushing through, I did that myself, System has X100 added on...

I have a 14 year old Glow worm convential boiler. A few weeks ago I drained and flushed the system after desludging with x400, after draining I had a plumber in to replace some partially blocked pipe work in the airing cupboard. A few days after being back in use the boiler started to make what...

Yes tried that already, a few times, no luck.

Thanks, I was thinking of doing that as I need one with a drain off point, but could valve have been the cause of the cold rad even though it was letting some water through?

I drained my open vented ch system 3 weeks ago after having X400 going round for a month to try and sort out a partial blockage. I flushed the system out well and on advice, as the drained water was the colour of oxtail soup, put another dose of X400 in again. After filling the system I was left...

Thanks gigz, will try that when I drain system again.

I have placed posts before on these problems. Initially started with hot water venting into expansion tank. After consulting on this site decided there was a partial blockage or complete blockage in the pipe where feed pipe joins pipe from pump to pipe that rises expanded water to tank at the T...

Thanks for advice, will have a go with your suggestions.