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Our fence been victimised by the recent winds :o So now I need to work out how to repair this? Looks like the fence post had started to rot anyway, and it was concreted in to the ground. What's the approach here? Do I drill out the remaining stub and slip a new post in there? Or is...

View of the missing panel along with my temporary strut :)

The remainder of the fence post in its concrete foundation

When we lived in a rented house, one day the neighbours knocked on the door and asked if we had anything leaking in our kitchen. We both had a nose around, and discovered that when the kitchen had been fitted, the waste from the washing machine had been routed (correctly enough) behind the...

That makes sense. I stand corrected, thanks for the clarification :)

Is that not right? Please correct it if it is wrong.

I am very much not an expert at all, but we have had similar symptoms with our Vaillant combi. For us, it was the pressure vessel. This is a diaphragm arrangement and expands/contracts to cope with volumetric changes in water as the temperature varies. It's the air pressure in this part that...

I've got soakaways, but then I'm in a very old property with a septic tank. I grew up in a 1982 built house on an estate, that definitely had mains drainage but the guttering went straight in to the ground and found the drains there. My suggestion would be to have a look around for manhole...

Thanks Chris, sounds like good advice. I'll defo leave the PRV well alone!

Nope, it's definitely the AAV - I've identified the component here: http://www.clickonbathrooms.co.uk/061707-vaillant-vuw-turbomax-plus-828e-automatic-air-vent.html And yes, I should be taking the boiler cover off. I've got enough common sense and a stint in engineering to know what not to...

Well, it's a Vaillant TurboMAX Plus 828E, and on the front page for this range it says "Wall hung room sealed fan assisted combination boilers and system boilers". So ... section 4.8.8 of Boiler Installation Sequence says So I presume that means that the air vent fitted is not designed...

Cheers, I will dig out the boiler documentation and see if that helps (probably should've done this first :)

I'm going to fit some extra pipe work to our CH supply/return from the boiler. I'll be adding these to the vertical run from the skirting board area (where the current pipe work runs around) to the boiler. I.e. the vertical pipes that run up the wall to the boiler. This is a bungalow and the...

Cheers Andy, good point. I did have an epithany this afternoon - instead of putting the T's in where the pipe runs around the skirting board in the airing cupboard, I could put them where the pipes run vertical to the boiler (the boiler is the highest point in the circuit. Therefore I will...

Thanks for your input, Bucks and Andy. You seem to contradict each other though :| What I was thinking (hoping?) would happen, is that the heat would flow to the 2 pipe loop because it is less resistance (initially just one rad on there). And that I could use the lockshield valve to really...

Yep, we have a one pipe system. And I'm phasing that out. I can't do it all at once. So the plan is to put the two pipe feed/return "artery" down the middle of the bungalow and swap out individual radiators as we can. So what problems do you think I will be creating? And back to the...

This is a very old system and I'm not convinced that the valves and lockshields are working properly. Nice idea though! And unfortunately no drain valves outside the property either. I'm thinking about using a pipe freezing aerosol. Freeze a section, put a jacket on it, freeze another...

We have a one pipe central heating system, and I want to insert a compression equal tee into the supply pipe (and another into the return pipe) to add in some new two-pipe runs. So I will need to drain down the system. Trouble is, I cannot find any evidence of a drain valve! This is a...

Thanks Tim. Re-plumbing is definitely on the cards. Re-wiring has already been done. I have been reading up on imperial pipe, and discovered that the water board will take a sample free of water to determine if there is lead materials in the service pipe. So they're coming on Friday to...