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Yes..off/on to reset boiler. 2.8 Bar could be 1) filling loop left open..not that uncommon.Turn blue knob underneath clockwise as you look up at it to turn it off. Check the Pressure Relief Valve is not leaking, occasionally lazy people leave the filling loop open just to compensate for a...

C'mon Agile, give a full answer. Should the foam be on the outside or the inside of the cylinder once the job is done. Does one need a jug to carry the H.W. from the cylinder to the bath. Should the cylinder really be sited in the middle of the bedroom floor so the customer can admire it...

Just don't have an Ideal boiler, their history is fraught with problems Fit either a Vaillant or a Viessman or a Glow Worm, or a Worcester 28i Junior combi. They aren't bad to work on and quality is OK Why do these people go for Ideal Icos and Isar. They are not nice, seriously. I'm not that...

Well said Agile. Anyone saying they are studying ACOPS is an effin idiot. Alfredo

Actually the OP needs to do the job properly. I think he'l find that if he takes the new cylinder down the scrappy, the nice man will give him a few quid for it. Then everybody's happy, and you have have a fine old time sticking your pencil into that foamy stuff you took off. Its somehow...

I am rather hoping somebody has just left the circulator pump at the wrong angle, but life's never that simple is it :lol: Alfredo

I've been asked to go and look at a newish installation ( one year) where they don't want the installer back. Its 31 radiators on two levels in an old long farmhouse. The system apparently worked OK until a builder hit a pipe. His insurers 'fixed' the system with their appointed contractors, but...

I confess I have been stumped today and need help from those that know I took out a Baxi Solo today and installed a Viessmman Compact 100 heat only..except I can't get it to go. The Baxi had a Honeywell frost stat next to it in the garage. I wired the Viessman mains cable by...

You need three quotes from different companies. Try your local plumbers merchants for a few names of fitters. They can't give a 'recommendation' but they will know who gives them quality business and pays their bills and seems a decent outfit, been trading for a long time etc. Thats the only...

I've always had good service from Drayton diverters and Honeywells (though on 3 ports we got a whole batch of honeywells that wouldn't switch one microswitch due to too much free play in the actuator quadrant. Ideally it needed a circlip to hold it firm, but they aren't going to fit one on my...

If it drips from the Pressure Relief Valve (outside) when boiler is cold and you have topped the pressure up to 1.5 bar then the PRV is at fault. It may just be dirt on the seating allowing water to get past (letby). You can dismantle and clean some PRVs, but not all. If it doesn't drip when...

The combi in my 'other' house (up for sale) is a ten year old Vokera Linea 28. Its not a make to go wild about, but its been almost faultless, aside from having to clean some crap off the diverter pin in January that was affecting the hot water. One 1 1/2 hour fix in ten years is not bad, it...

Thanks for the B&Q tip. If I do a quick fix call that may or may not work in the medium term I charge a nominal fee, and say that if it fails again soon I'l knock that off the bill for replacment. Did it last week with a stuck three port. Eased it and it seemed to be working OK, but it went...

Sounds like either a short circuit or a broken cable somewhere. PCBs go eventually on these and I've done a few gas valves...last one at Christmas, but to have this many go can't be right. I'm quite fond of the old Ultimatum, but yours would have me quaking in my boots if there is no obvious...

Sooted/blocked heat exchanger. Seen that a few times on old Ideal Mexicos that have not been serviced properly. Alfredo

Outlay of £6k min for new boiler? You have expensive tastes. You can pay me 5k to install one anyday as a decent boiler is about 1k these days Like most boilers, if a reasonable quality condenser is properly installed and maintained it will be mostly trouble free and should do minimum 10...

I used a little box spanner when I overhauled my Linea 28 in my Lincs house. Its a swine if you are not expecting it though. The HW had stopped on mine and the pin the diverter motor acts on had just become crudded up over ten years. I just cleaned it all carefully, as bits are a bit fragile...

I'm very interested in what you say as my only personal experience of weather compensation systems are ones I came across in warden controlled housing schemes with a central boiler house and commercial boilers. They didn't seem to prevent the poor old residents from either freezing or frying...

I'm sure there are situations where aggressive corrosion could be a problem, but if it were a killer problem they'd have stopped using Alloy long ago. This one has been used fairly intensively, and if it failed tomorrow I couldn't really complain. We moved away for 13 years and rented the...

I'm certainly not going to knock a product of which I have not been previously aware, and which seems to take Skirting heating to a different place, I'd just advise you to do as much research on it as possible, and if practical see a working installation. I can certainly see the attractions...