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I have no idea, I haven't been to the OPs house. All I was saying that no, kickboards don't prevent drafts but if there is air flow, having a gap in the kickboard now can mean it is being felt more sensitively by feet whilst in the kitchen.

It can't prevent a draft but it can change where the draft is felt by the homeowner. With a gap in the kickboard, the draft will now be coming through there and felt by their feet when in the kitchen. Whatever route the draft was taking before clearly wasn't as obviously felt by the homeowner.

I saw something about 10 inch skirts and got all excited. This thread has thoroughly disappointed me.

If your wall is up to the boundary line and you want a gap, then you'll have to move your wall back... I mean, look if you can be right up to the boundary line on your side, why can't your neighbour on their side?!

Just to close this out, after a day of not having the immersion heater on, we did finally start to run out of hot water in the cylinder (thankfully whilst my wife was in the shower :) ) And then yesterday afternoon we had the replacement diverter valve fitted. All sorted and we have a lovely...

I'm sure someone will come along with some specific trouble shooting advice for you. But if it was me I would just pick up a super cheap (less than £10) Bluetooth USB dongle from Amazon, plug that in and connect using that.

Quite right. The kitchen tap is the only "on demand" tap from the boiler. The bathrooms are all fed by the cylinder. I know there's been a lot in the thread to follow but I did put that in the opening post.

Thanks very much, that is very useful to read. And yes, we probably have been relying upon topping up the system pressure too much for too long so I'll mention about maybe needing to topp up the inhibitor as well. One last point which had totally slipped my mind but as we discussed the...

Yeah, I'll remind myself of that next year when I'm replacing the PCB board, pump and whatever else is left! On that subject though, we bought this house 3 years ago and have serviced the boiler each year. But unless the book just wasn't filled in, it looks like it hadn't been serviced once by...

Just to update here, my plumber has been today and it looks like it is the diverter valve in the boiler. So I think this is what switches between demand for the hot tap and demand for the central heating. The boiler is only 8 years old but in the last year its had a new PRV, new expansion...

Not as far as I'm aware or can see. I have a magnetic scale inhibitor on the coldwater inlet to the boiler but that's it. No mention of a Magnaclean being added in any of the commissioning paperwork for the boiler either.

Correct. So that is where I'm at. Something is causing it not to get round properly though. My thought was an airlock that cleared itself previously and has returned. But I don't know if that's likely or not, I'm just guessing. I have my boiler man coming at some point but he's naturally...

Thanks Shinds, strange indeed! But I don't think I have been relying upon the boilder to heat my cylinder as I have inadvertantly had the immersion on the whole time... @Gasguru I put the overide on for the cylinder for half an hour and certainly that zone valve seems to be working properly...

Quite! And I have no idea how long it has been on for, probably since we bought the house 3 years ago... I must admit it did confuse me how we had hot water immediately when returning from holidays when I have been sure I'd turned the timer for the hot water off! Let's see if I get a sudden...

Now that is a good question and one I don't think I am going to be able to answer for a day or so as I realised whilst rummaging around that I had the immersion switched on so the cylinder will have been getting all it needs from there I would think! I have switched it off now so if we're...

Thanks for coming back and apologies I could/should have given that extra info to start with. So yes, 2 motorised zone valves, as you describe. The one for the radiators does respond, open up and the pipe is hot both sides of it so it's getting past there. So on that, you will work out that...

Hi all, I wonder if anybody would be able to give some pointers as to what possibly could be wrong with my central heating. Valliant ecoTEC Plus 831 sealed central heating system Thermostats controlled by Honeywell Evohome, kept in the living room with individual electric TRV heads in 3...

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