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Took off a radiator to decorate and to install a new window above it. The new cill is sitting about an inch lower than the old one so the radiator has had to be moved down by the same amount. Nothing too major because it's microbore stuff so slightly flexible (I assume). The fittings and the...

Got an 02 reg Nissan Vanette which had a lot of wear on the prop shaft and was causing a major judder going through the gears. Was quoted £600 from a Nissan garage - managed to get a new one off the internet for £80 and had it fitted for £45. This is the simple bolt on type so nothing major (or...

Update! OK, he arrived at 8am and finished at 3pm. Worked without stopping and it was chucking it down all day. He built an 18m wall at five courses high plus he built some steps that were four course hgh...and all in that horrible 6" colid concrete block that weighs a tonne and is really...

He's a friend of a friend and he's doing this as an aside to his normal job so he doesn't have anywhere else to be if he finishes at noon. This is just some beer money for him. And I can't believe some people people took me seriously about the voucher!

It's almost certainly an issue with him being too shy to ask. But I just wanted to get an idea in my head before I blurted out the wrong price. Initially I was thinking of £200. (or £190 plus the HMV voucher).

We're in Manchester. The brickie isn't a teenager - he's time served - he has just always worked for someone else so he never has to price up any work. Bit awkward really because he should know but I don't want to offend him either. Maybe if I get him an HMV voucher?

OK, bit of a strange one. Got a friend of a friend building a garden wall for me using concrete block. The wall is 20m x 0.9m. Footings are all in place and the materials are being supplied by me. This lad is a brickie by trade and he reckons it will take him about a day and a half (with me...

Point taken. Yes, everything was flushed and all the pipes worked fine previously. Cheers

All the pipes, rads, etc were already fitted - this was a straight boiler swap. Won't the manufacturers just claim it's the existing pipes?

Had a new boiler fitted by a mate of mine (a Baxi condensor) after the old Ariston stopped working (circuit board fault). Went in fine and we now have heat again as well as plenty of hot water in the kitchen. However the hot water in the bathroom (sink and bath) are both lukewarm at max. We've...

I believe it's a Baxi.

The engineer did check the pump in the way you described. Either way I managed to track down an old mate of mine who is Corgi registered and he's putting in a new boiler for £900.

OK, he came this morning just to check the electrics and confirmed that he believed the PCB had gone. He quoted £300 to fit the two boards (he said they come as a pair) but said it perhaps wasn't worth it for a boiler of that age. So here's the question: would you spend £300 to repair an 8...

Agile, it didn't take the engineer long to establish how little I knew of boilers...that was enough to re-assure him I couldn't do the work myself!

Managed to find a local engineer who has just visited. He says there is power to the main PCB but not the other parts and switches leading off from that...so his only thought is that the main board has gone. How much should I expect to pay for a main board and fitting for an Ariston Genus 27...

The normal green light is ON but the red fault light is not. In other words the unit looks like it's ok with no obvious fault....but no operation. If the red light was on it would answer my question because the manual tells me what that means. But because the normal lights are on and the...

We've been away for three days and on our return our Genus 27 mffi won't come back on. We turned it off at the switch (rightly or wrongly) so we've put that back on and pressed the On button on the boiler itself. But it won't fire up...in fact nothing, no noises or anything. Nor does it start if...

err thanks

Yes, I meant the aircap. Leak Sealer sounds like a good name for a leak selaer, smartar.se.

Just taken the plug off and got wet...very wet! We don't have surface pipes everywhere so of course a leak may be possible somewhere although our house is on many different levels and only one room has the potential to leak without us physically noticing. Point taken though...time for...