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The irony isn't lost on me. The fact is I know there are people that would say a one coat product usually still needs at least two. But it's a good price which is why I mentioned it. Thanks JohnD. Yes, pity about that Wickes product being sold out. I think from your explanations, you're...

Hello all. My fence has never been painted or stained since it was installed a few years ago. It's all in pretty good shape but starting to show some signs of discolouration from weathering so it's time to protect it. I don't know if it was pre-treated from new, I guess it would have been...

That would be great, yeah. I'll pm you my details.

Hah, yeah that's amazing! I'll send you a pm.

Oh you're a gas safe engineer :) This is your job? I'm in Finchley. Starts N3.

Thanks. I like that diagnosis. So paying £300+ sounds like it would be more than I need to pay. How much should I be paying to have this done and can you recommend a good not too expensive gas safe engineer for me? I'm in London too, north London.

I've just had a quick go in one of the iso valves and it seems tight. I tried turning in both directions and it hasn't moved yet. Don't want to force anything. By the way, just to let you know, I pressurised yesterday to 1.5 or might have been a bit higher, can't remember. It's now sitting...

Awesome! Thanks for circling those, makes it very clear and easy for me to know how to do it now. Thanks given, my pleasure. Thanks dilalio. Looks like I have a 4mm and it fits perfectly. :) As you said it needs 2 to 3 days testing, I'll do this test on wednesday as I have friends coming...

I've uploaded some photos from different angles. As you can see, below the boiler is boxed in. But I'm assuming/ hoping they allowed for access to important valves and I'm guessing there's no allen key points lower down where I can't reach. There's 6 brass pipes but are you able to see...

Actually yeah, I do have a small oil filled electric radiator. "Isolate boiler from system if iso valves are in working order. Check if your boiler can run hot water with flow and return valves off". Ok so to isolate it seems from what you're saying I just have to turn two valves off, the flow...

Nope, no water ever dripped from the boiler casing. I checked the discharge pipe a few weeks ago and didn't notice any dripping either. But I'll check it again tomorrow. Do you think though that if there's a leak that it's probably more likely to be in the boiler or at least somewhere more...

Yes, I asked the guy at Vaillant about a service and he said that if I'm happy to increase to £65pm instead of £51pm for 6 months, that would include a service. Which I should probably do. If it's a leak, are we talking under the floor, or more likely a pump? I found an article, wonder what...

Hi guys. I've had to re-pressurise my combi since about November. It used to be a few weeks between re-pressurising but now it's just a matter of 3 or 4 days. Clearly it needs fixing before It gets to the point that I can't re-pressurise it any more, plus I read that does more damage. From...

Ah, thank you. Well I managed to get the wheel off, and the one for the cold water. I took the whole valve attachment off to get a better grip and torque on it. So I'm all ready now to connect the new Samsung machine which I've just bought from Currys and it's coming Tuesday. :) I bought a...

Thank you jj4091. Looks like it's a 3/4" cap thread I need then. I've disconnected the drain hose from under the sink no problem. But I can't turn the red wheel to disconnect the hot water pipe. Also, I just found out that turning the longer red lever to off stops all hot water to my sink, so...

Agreed. I'm going to order this Samsung. I think I can get John Lewis to price match, then use a £50 gift voucher I have with them, and hopefully get it for £299! As my Hotpoint fills with hot and cold water and the Samsung only fills with cold, I've been advised to cap the hot water...

Harry, yes, definitely some other issue I think. You're correct, it certainly owes me nothing, it's done very well over the years. I posted a video above if you fancy seeing it. I didn't really know how to rewire the connector plugs but I fitted new brush holders and brushes and it didn't fix...

Think I'm going to put money down on a Samsung Ecobubble tomorrow. But here's a video I made today. Interested in thoughts from any experts here on what they think the problem is. I've shortened lots of bits that just go on for several minutes but feel free to skip through it, I only wanted to...

The carbon is the same length on the new ones as the old. So my old ones weren't worn. I fitted the new ones and no difference. Waste of £22. Only once did the drum turn a few times in both directions in between filling with water. I've not been able to get it to turn since. What's...

Ah well, too late, it's arriving in the couple of hours. Two places I checked said that C00251802 isn't compatible for my model which is why I wasn't confident on getting them. Anyway, I hope these ones work. I think I might need to check the commutator contacts first and maybe clean them...