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The detached garage and its gutters are totally within my friend's demise with an additional 100mm gap before the new fence. So there is no "neighbour's part". Being about 6m long it would need a very stiff pole. It would probably be better to use that technique to pull the rubbish in segments...

This is a detached garage with about 100mm between outside of gutter and the new fence. So no cleaning access except from neighbour's side. It does not help that both neighbours are IC4 and he has no experience of dealing with them. But he now has an IC3 girlfriend.

And to add to the advantages of retaining your existing boiler to heat a new cylinder! A standard cylinder is about 90 litres or 26 gallons. But they are available in larger sizes and you would need to be pretty careless to empty a 300 litre cylinder while the boiler was reheating it. And if...

Replacing the cylinder with a new one to be heated by the existing boiler would be the cheapest option and could easily be less than £1000 and would give a better hot water performance as well as an electric backup if the gas supply or boiler failed. With the current world political situation...

Well I told him I could replace it if it does not regain much of its original shape. But those aspects are of little relevance compared with the need to clean the neighbour's side which is completely filled up. But he does not get on at all well with the neighbour and seeks to avoid him...

I finally agreed to do some repairs for a friend on his garage gutters as he gets very worried and has been badly ripped off by some building tradesmen. A long section on one side had fallen off and the rear had been twisted by plants growing up behind it. This is all standard 112mm black...

It would be unusual to have a gas boiler and a cylinder without a heating coil. I would never recommend replacing a cylinder by a combi boiler. If the cylinder really is damaged and not repairable then my recommendation would always be to replace the cylinder with a new one heated by the...

Interesting question for RGIs. Do Ideal really insist that annual services MUST be done by their accredited installers? As for cleaning a mag filter, then if fitted I would say that it is essential they are cleaned annually.

it could be as simple as you have not set a timeclock or programmer or room thermostat. Where do you live?

If a system is already clean then I would advise only using a little cleanser mostly to remove any stamping oil from the new rads. Perhaps only circulated through the new rads! But that is best drained out under gravity as far as possible. But do not make multiple rinses. I once went to a...

One day you will need a new boiler. Most new boiler maker's expect a magnetic filter when it is installed before they want to start the warranty cover. So you might as well fit it now and probably you will be able to keep it clean enough that a further chemical clean may not even be needed...

Heat will only flow into pipes if there is a water flow through them. If any motorised valve along the pipe is closed then there will be no water flow and so they will remain cold and not lose any heat. However any heat loss from heating pipes is generally low and in an occupied house must...

Anyone reading this thread needs to be aware there is potential for confusion because a Megaflow is a brand name of one Maker's unvented cylinder and that uses an internal air gap as an expansion vessel. Most installers prefer a separate expansion vessel and they can also be used with a...

20 years ago which refridgerant would have been used? If starting again from no pressure would it work OK with the new gas?

Now if there is no gas in it on a 20 y.o. car should I assume it is just normal leakage and repressurising it should effect a cure? Or should I expect that it has developed a leak and repressurising will be a waste of money?

When I bought my current Peugeot 307cc I dropped off as an old boss would have said. It was winter time and when I was checking the car out and I totally forgot to check the AC. On a previous car an AC recharge made it work again. But apart from recharging it what other diagnostics are...

He thinks they should have dug more carefully!

My friend had a problem at his house in Manchester. He got a reasonable quote from a couple of guys to fit concrete posts and gravel boards and 11 fence panels. But after a few hours they came and told him they had dug into a gas pipe. He thought the fencers were to blame but I pointed out...

The radiator system does not know where the heat is coming from. Nor does the boiler know where its heat is going. Before making any changes it would be sensible to do a thermal survey of the heating using the existing oil boiler to see if a gas boiler is likely to be able to match the heating...

I have heard of many who have done all sorts of courses! But still do not understand dynamic flow rate or know how to measure it. Simply it is the flow rate which can be taken whilst still having a pressure of say 0.5 bar in the house distribution pipes. That remaining pressure is needed to...