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Thanks for this. Is anyone able to recommend someone in the Welwyn Garden City/Hatfield area who could take a look at this? As for the wiring, I remember I did raise a question on here about it last year, went on holiday and forgot to send a response to a question asked. I'll find the post and...

The plumber did say he was going to come back today to re-charge the bubble. I didn't think it was that as I'd seen comments that a symptom of that needing to be done was dripping visible in the tundish, and that's completely dry. The plumber is fully qualified, and I did receive the relevant...

Hi All, A bit of background. Just over a year ago I had a Megaflo unvented cylinder and Vaillant EcoTEC unvented boiler installed to replace an increasingly unreliable Gledhill Boilermate 2000. We have the hot water on a timer to come on for an hour at 6am, and then again for another hour at...

This is a relatively new installation. Previously that switch controlled all the power to a Boilermate 2000. House is about 12 years old.

Here's what the airing cupboard looks like... I don't think the large switch is fused either.

There's 3 cables plus the earth. I can't see a fused connection unit anywhere in the airing cupboard where all the wiring goes back to. The wiring goes directly into the wiring centre for the megaflo. Here's a couple of (bad) pics...

Hi All, On a recent service visit by British Gas they commented that my boiler, located in my kitchen didn't have a fused isolation switch. They recommended I go and buy a switch with a 3A fuse in it. We've recently had a new kitchen fitted, and we had stainless steel sockets fitted, so I also...

Would anyone here be able to advise on a recommended water softener / scale inhibitor? Currently under my kitchen sink I have a Liff Combi-Flo "Scale and Corrosion Inhibitor". I don't think it had ever been re-filled by the previous owners. So I refilled it last year, but the amount of scale...

Hi All, I've posted a while ago about having my boiler and thermal store replaced. I live in a 4 bed townhouse and the boiler (suprima 60) is in a kitchen cupboard and the boilermate (185L) in the airing cupboard on the top floor. There's 2 ensuites and a family bathroom. One installer...

British Gas have replaced lots of components over the years. When we first moved in the they replaced the PHE and DHW sensors as both were erroring which resulted in nothing working. A few weeks ago they replaced the ACB, heating pump and boiler pump (this was upgraded from a 15/50 to a 15/60)...

BG customer services called me earlier in the week to ask what I thought of the quote & salesman. So I told them. They've now kicked off a complaint/investigation. That came as a surprise. I did email Viessmann to enquire about their products and reliability. They admitted there were...

British Gas quoted for a 40kW boiler! My understanding with the Boilermate was that it allowed you to install a smaller boiler than you normally would for a given property. I think the Suprima 60 is around 18kW. With this in mind I expected the quotes to include a larger boiler as I'm going...

Hi All, After another failure of my Potterton Suprima and Boilermate 2000 we've decided to change both, especially as we're about to put a new kitchen in, and the boiler is located in the kitchen. I've received 2 quotes from recommended installers. Both have quoted for the Vaillant ecoTEC...

[/url] Yes, I will definitely be getting one of these, and it the socket needs to be moved I will also have that done.

Yes it does. In the new kitchen, the location of the oven will not change by much, and the hob will continue to be directly above the oven. Here's a few more pics: I mentioned to the electrician today that the kitchen designer had suggesting moving the oven/hob/extractor to the...

Here's a couple of pics of the socket. Click on them to enlarge. Not sure if they're helpful or not.

So I had another electrician visit. He is convinced from what he can see of the cable in the kitchen isolation switch that the cable is 6mm and not 10mm as I'd previously been advised. However, he took the same final stance as the previous electrician. He said it would be possible to connect...

His initial suggestion was to have a standard cylinder and use electric pumps to bring up the pressure of the hot water. I said to him I wasn't remotely interested in getting into that sort of installation which he seemed surprised at. I won't be using them at all, but I thought I'd post here...

So BG have been out and replaced the 2 pumps and ACB on the BM2000. So far, the boiler isn't continually being asked for heat as much as it was before. However, there's no improvement in store temperature. The engineer suggested I might like to get a quote for replacing the system as they had...

No need to apologise, I did my research using Google, so wasn't sure it was correct. I appreciate people taking the time to respond and explain. It's just disappointing that there are tradesmen out there who are giving incorrect advice & quotations.