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Yeah, the bloke who usually does the gas service and hopefully fixing the boiler ignition today, did question why the hotpoint engineer didn't just disconnect the bayonet fitting. I'm guessing by disconnecting that bayonet hose, there's less guarantee of switching the gas off than from the...

The engineer was from Hotpoint as cooker still under the 1 year warranty. Would like to think they would have checked that. When you say safety restraint, do you mean the chain from the cooker to the wall that we have? Thinking that it might be worth getting a cooker gas isolation valve...

I managed to light the fireplace thats part of the boiler though, so guess thats ok

Thanks. So anyone switching off the gas to fix the the cooker must attempt to restart the boiler then? Not just initial installation?

That's brilliant. Thank you. Where did you get that from? I suspect the boiler is defective as couldn't light myself. But this bloke didn't even try.

Turned it off at the meter. Does it make a difference?

He came round a little while ago and fixed the grill. Apparently he put the grill chassis in the wrong way round. Unbelievable.... Apparently the cooker is fixed now. Just need the boiler bloke to fix that tomorrow....

The cooker was working fine till my wife used the top oven. The entire grill chassis etc just fell into the food. The idiot hadn't done the screws up properly. Unbelievable. So got him coming back again..... Not happy

Cooker working fine.

Thanks. When the cooker was fitted last April, the bloke relit the boiler. This bloke just left and didn't even try. Just said he didn't know anything about those boilers and wasn't his responsibility anyway. Due to have the yearly service on Monday but have arranged him to come tomorrow...

Yeah, my dad was saying he had the same.

I have an old Baxi Bermuda Back Boiler which usually runs fine and without issue. However, today when an engineer came to fix our gas cooker, the gas needed turning off. Afterwards, I tried to restart the boiler following the instructions could not get the pilot light to ignite. Got no flame...

I had a project way back of creating a hybrid 2 door Hillman Avenger Tiger suped up type thing. It was great fun years back and I made some progress but 30 years of marriage, leaky garage roof and kids signed the death warrant for the project. Sadly, the car itself was scrapped (as was rusted...

Yeah, think it's time for the garage. Last time I changed a clutch was a 1974 Hillman Avenger (it was old at the time). That was fairly easy. Don't fancy messing with this clutch. No room to move...

Er yeah. sorry 117500

Car has done 11700 miles. Don't think it has ever had a new clutch. Given that info, first suspicion goes to having the clutch replaced. However, it's the nature of the issue I'm seeing that makes me suspect, this is not the exact problem as a worn clutch would surely be consistently bad...

No, clutch biting point does not change. Thanks

Drove the car a long way today. No issues at all. Very weird and intermittent.

Can change gear easily with engine off as usual. Pedal feels the same. Thanks

No sponginess at all of the clutch pedal. Feels the same. Thanks