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The perfect customer.....you ask? Easy..a deaf and dumb nymphomaniac with a flat over a pub. (the oldies are the best :lol: :lol: ) Alfredo

You may not want to cause a fuss, but one day you may wish to sell your property, and buyers may well be put off if they spot the flue being a nuisance, or knock you down on price. Its in your interest to be as diplomatic as possible, and to do your research properly. I'd certainly speak to...

" Why choose an unbranded shed TRV for £4.99 when you can have a top of the range Drayton for £16 ? " Odd really..I keep having to relace draytons where the plastic base of the TRV head has fatigued and broken off..so i think they are very expensive for what they are. I'd go Danfoss or...

If you like excitement use a cheap freezer kit. We do, and working against a ticking clock concentrates the mind wonderfully when all that is between you and the entire heating water content of a 15 apartment elderly persons unit is a tiny frozen plug is a sure fire cure for constipation...

Same rules apply. Its a question I am asked every week as we have hundreds of Glow Worm 45 BBUs with either Coordinate/Miami/Melody fire fronts on the housing association district. Glow Worm stopped producing the alternative coal effect fires quite some years ago now, and I hate them...

And tucked away in the Glow Worm manual where no-one can see it it does in fact say that a small amount of water dripping is normal when you operate the filling loop, but it doesn't half caused trouble. I have been called out to drive half a county distance at night to fix an 'emergency...

Tony, do you mean PRV as in Pressure Release Valve or PRV as in Pressure reducing valve? I think the Release Valve has a plastic top, and the reducing valve has a plastic screw in elbow, which was also a source of leaks in earlier models. Alfredo

Two 'heads up' warnings on fitting new filler loop assembly 1) They are so mean they do NOT include the two little rubber 'O' sealing rings on each end of the new filling loop. You MUST retain and reuse the ones from your existing..unless you order new ones seperately 2) At the other end...

So now you need to 1)order a new filling loop assembly (you don't just get the tap, and another part has been modified so you have to fit the whole new assembly) ..which is next lesson. 2)trace the loss of pressure..which could be.a) Faulty PRV b)a leak on the system c) a blocked flexi tube...

" Sounds like you've done a few " I see the ruddy things in my sleep. On this contract we install glow worm exclusively on the gas side..since 2001, so I do get to see the odd one now and again, and again, and again (pass the whisky someone) :roll: :lol: Alfredo

On this model it has a built in filling loop with a blue cylindrical tap on the lower RH side of the boiler to fill. BUT.....If you do not hear water flowing into the boiler when you open the tap its because the valve seating at the top of the blue filling loop tap is stuck shut. Its very common...

If you read all the text books they tend to infer that a Tiger Loop is rarely neccessary. In the real world we know different. I'm not oil qualified, but i'm sure one of my colleagues who is told me they must be mounted externally. I think its a fire thing. Its worth investigating why you are...

Well the rads on my system must be 20 years old if they are a day, and I say again, what possible harm can softened water do if you have inhibitor in. I wonder if some of these guys think softened water is salty and encourages corrosion. I've just drunk a glass..its not salty :lol...

The plastic radiator flow pipe came out of the bedroom wall into a pushfit elbow then up into the TRV. The pipe was spewing water round the end of the pushfit, and there was no insert in the plastic pipe. There was quite a bit of grit/debris in the pushfit which can't have been doing the seal...

Going back a few years we had an engineer who did private work..from the company van. Unfortunately he used to do below standard work, and his interpersonal skills left a lot to be desired..so guess what..Corgi started getting complaints about his work..and Corgi landed like a ton of bricks on...

Whilst on call out duty last week I spent the lions share of New Years Eve bailing out an elderly persons new build bungalow on a nine month old system where two pushfits have failed so far, causing much distress to an 83 year old lady, and lots of water damage. The installation was obviously...

Six years faultess performance tells me otherwise. I live in a very hard water area and my plate to plate is as clean as a whistle judging from the Hot Water performance. These same manufacturers make you install a magnetic scale inhibiter the value of which is somewhat debatable. All the combis...

I have a water softener and a combi. The idea is that all taps EXCEPT one for drinking use softened water, and yes, the supply to the combi for HW and system water is softened. This makes the use of any other descaler pointless as the hardness ions in the fresh water are captured by the...

No Not hardboard!! I was once called to an old persons bungalow with an Elson HW tank in the false roof. The tank had leaked and the hardboard supporting plank had dissolved, and the tank was between joists. When I got there there were two gallant workmen in the loft supporting a large square...

I think you will find it still hisses even with new TRVs. There is not a lot to wear out, what you are hearing is a partly closed TRV valve. Someone suggested a by pass. Do you have a by pass radiator (one with no TRV) or a by pass circuit ? I know that many boilers have a built in by pass, but...