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Apologies if this is similar to other threads, but I couldn't see anything explicitly for this situation... I'm installing a steel bath, with polypipe plumbing / plastic waste - ie no metal joining to it. It is replacing an acrylic bath, and there is no earthing in place. It's also quite a...

Sorry, maybe didn't go into enough detail there... The end result is that the HW and/or CH are never satisfied, so something is going wrong somewhere. The degree to which this happens / periods for which the boiler flames vary, but any radiators past the first one or two in the loop very...

Sadly, it's bitter experience, not TV. As touched on in my last post, last time I had an issue with the central heating a few years back, the guy who came ronud confidently told me it was the PCB in the timer, destroyed a huge area of plastering around the timer getting it off the wall, and...

I suppose the whole concept of a DIY forum with an entire Plumbing and central heating section was always going to get some people's knickers in a twist. I'll remember not to bother taking an interest in future. :roll:

I wouldn't say no understanding, but it's limited to what I've learned from forums such as this. Thanks for the clarification on the liquid filled temperature probe - right function, wrong technology! As I say, I will be getting somebody out to look at it, just need to make sure it's not the...

Hi Mike, I appreciate that, and certainly wouldn't get involved in trying to service the boiler myself. But I'm keen to understand where the issue is likely to lie, as in my experience CH engineers can spend a lot of time faffing around and not addressing the right issue. So if I can talk...

I've been searching through the forum, but couldn't find any other examples of quite this problem... apologies if I missed one! The basic problem is that the main flame in my boiler (a glow worm space saver mk2) tends to cut in and out when it should be on, for CH and/or HW. Note that...