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You need to check what your room thermostat is controlling. With the room temp reached as set, the thermostat should switch the boiler off , provided the hot water is also up to temperature. Seems your room thermostat is just controlling the pump, as this was the setup invery old systems - the...

Where did you get that screw from ?

Maybe the screw you have is nothing to do with this fitting. Push the white centre of B into the centre of A, then screw that ontothe the bolt in the centre ofthe overflow pipe fitting. You definately have to hold the overflow from behind over the hole as Terry above says.

I have a garage in a similar situation but with corregated roof. The main house downpipe has been extended over the garage roof and feeds directly into the garage gutter with a couple of angle joints. Had to secure the downpipe lying on the garage roof to prevent high winds blowing it off. May...

Got a problem with corner sagging on Terrain Corniche guttering due to broken or missing clip. This guttering is obselete and incompatible with anything current. Is it possible to insert just the clip ? It appears to be part of the fitting. Photos of adjacent clips. I dare not open the fixed...

Do these twin entry valves isolate the radiator on flow & return or just one side? 1 old brass one. 2 later chrome one. If just one side then presumably its a system drain down.

Top in bottom out should work as hot water will stay on top and go accross, colder water will sink and go out the bottom connection. There maybe a slight difference in warm up time.

Chemicals will not stay in the pipe long enough as they will just run through so you may have to repeat many times. Rodding is your best bet. But don't use anything that is likely to get hooked up on an edge or break off - then you'llbe in real trouble. What did this plumber do ? He should have...

Try tightening the adapter to the tap connector first then offer up the nut and olive to the valve. Wrap ptfe tape around the olive to help seal. Use an open ended spanner as they are slimmer than an adjustable and you can turn it over for a different angle. But really you need to get another...

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My son just bought his first house and we found the CH has a Spirotech filter on the return to the boiler. There is no external magnet though which i have seen in adverts for Spirotech - it's a black jacket on body of the filter. Are there models without the external filter ?

Don't forget the eves tray mentioned above. The original probably had roofing felt overhanging the gutter - this felt is often decayed and and torn back. The eves tray tucks under what's left of the felt.

I have seen alluminium preformed/ pressed guttering which is screwed directly to the facia. It has a flat back with a fancy front profile. They used to come with flat strips of ali and run it through various rollers to make the gutter on site, made to measure. See Ebay adverts - they still do...

I did what you did - put a 68mm. piece over the 63mm pipe with some 68mm pipe sticking up to take a 68mm fitting. I used weld solvent cement and when that had set, I ran some mastic on the inside and the outside to seal it. Silicone does eventually fail, but the solvent cement is used in sink...

AN observation I have is the use of adhesive - I recently had to re-felt my 10x12 shed which was delivered and installed by a company about 5 yrs ago. They had used felt adhesive and it was pain to get off. They had stuck it down to the boarded roof and i had to hand scrape quitea large area to...

Job done ! I put a piece of 68mm over 63mm pipe with weld cement. Further sealed it with some old mastic. Left enough 68mm pipe above the joint to take a 68mm m/f joining socket. The downpipe goes into the socket, with a little adjustment (cuttin You can see where the old water butt stood on...

Start with the basics - power at the boiler , some sort of indicator light onthe boiler. Water inthe system - try a radiator bleed screw to see if it squirts out. Gas - trace from gas meter to boiler to see if valves are open. Don't open any gas valves if you find gas is turned off - get a gas...

You need to change the rubber o ring seals at the bottom of the spout. There usually a screw athe back ( prob nedd small allen key) - when screw removed, you can lift the spout out. You need to identify the make and model and get the correct o ring kit.

Looks like the pipe goes into the strap boss with a rubber bung gasket ? If so you should be able to pull it out and redo the run.

The boiler water temp can be adjusted but is usually too hot to hold but you can touch for a second or two. It depends on what your boiler is set to. Even if you don't have the CH on, the boiler water still goes through a heat exchanger to heat the domestic HW.