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The problem these days is that firing even a street legal air weapon in your garden is likely to get you a visit from a police ARU. Bring back the good old days when me dad used to pay me a shilling a go for shooting pigeons in his veg patch from the bedroom window using his old LR rimfire.

Birds will always try to find their favourite nibble and chuck the rest on the ground which attracts the pigeons. I have found that partially filling the birdfeeder works quite well. The birds will quickly empty the feeder and then clean up the seed that's on the ground so there is not a lot for...

How on earth can you service a boiler and carry out all the required checks in 20 minutes?

If the system is oil or solid fuel and is working OK then I would probably just look for a more modern second hand replacement boiler and swap it over.

Well you can spend a lot of dosh and get a super duper system and that's for sure. Whether it's value for money is another matterr. Depending where the back boiler is installed it might be possible to remove it and splice a free standing oil boiler into the existing pipework. Quite a few second...

Well I certainly wouldn't recommend using Denso tape in that situation.

Well you could just wrap the spigot with hessian tape impregnated with boss white and ram the whole lot into the gap. Not something I would recommend but it's something you could do yourself without having to get the owners 'tradesmen' involved.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Some of those old systems had no control over DHW and you could get a situation where, if no hot water had been drawn off for a while, there was a risk of scalding.

You find on some old oil systems that the primary circuit often includes a towel rail or radiator typically in a bathroom. Sometimes this circuit is extended to provide radiators in remote parts of the house and a second pump is added. If it was done by someone who knew what they were doing then...

Have you tried rodding it?

Or you could just grind off the boss with a rotary file back to the soil pipe and bond on a replacement.

If your FP720 has an industry standard backplate and your sparky wired it correctly then you could swap it for a Drayton LP722. I have a LP722 controlling pumped heating and gravity hot water. It replaced a mechanical controller that had an industry standard back plate meaning it was a matter...

Never had a post treated with engine oil fail. I mix it 50/50 with kerosine and paint it onto the lower half of new posts.

You can feed a power washer from an outside water butt or a portable plastic container.

You need to go into Disc management and give it a letter.

It has an amazing 40 year certification period from the safety standards people.

Well if there is a problem with the digital controller then most likely it lies with the valve assembly as thats the bit that takes most punishment.

The boost button shouldn't be stuck in on a new rotary control. I would get it replaced if I was you. You dont want to be running your shower on constant boost.