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Hi, Last year we purchased a house which had in pretty much every respect been neglected for the past 10 years. Both the dining room and the sitting room floors are covered with this material as pictured below (pic 1), including a sample of left-over flooring found in the loft for you to see...

Thanks. What do you mean wired "updside down"? The current cable to the (broken) existing fitting comprises just two wires (+ maybe an earth, can't check right now as I'm away) which I assume to be a SwL and a N.

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Yes, there's room behind the plasterboard for a surface light. I want to fit a light where the existing cable and small hole in the plasterboard already exist. Any ideas? Are there gu10's with wide beams?

Hi, I'd like to replace the (broken) light socket in our cupboard under the stairs with a recessed downlight. The reason I want it recessed is that there isn't much space in there and anything that projects out is likely to be broken again. The problem with the standard GU10 spot lights that...

No he did not. He removed the fan and burner only after I mentioned that the reason I had a service scheduled was to have at least the burner cleaned as per the manual's servicing schedule and as promised by the BG call centre employee. But nothing was actively cleaned and the exchanger was not...

I had a BG service yesterday. The eng + his trainee did some routine checks for leaks and I mentioned that the boiler took a few manual starts before it would light up after having been shut down for a few hours. The eng agreed to look at the detection and spark electrodes as recommended by the...

Guys, is it possible that a blocked condensate drain caused this pressure switch to become faulty which in turn causes the burner to go out after a few seconds on cold starts? When the condensate drain was blocked last month, water was dripping from what seemed to be very close to the...

That's very interesting Nickso, could this water ingestion be the result of the condensate drain freezing up? Because that's exactly what happened 3 weeks ago.

Thanks Oliski. In my case though the burner does light briefly (burner light on and little bellow of smoke for 2 secs) before extinguishing. Is that still compatible with your assessment of oxides spoiling the electrodes? What about flame detection rather? Can that probe also get covered in oxides?

Thanks for the info and the advice. Even though I regard myself as fairly competent in terms of DIY (esp with a manual on hand!), I wouldn't dream of removing the burner of this boiler myself to adjust the flame detector and the spark electrodes. I've scheduled a service for the boiler. I hope a...

Thanks for that, but in the meantime do you (or anyone else) have an idea as to why this only happens on early morning starts and not on subsequent boiler starts?

Hi, I have a Minimiser SE boiler. Lately it sometimes lights up for 2 seconds then goes out again, leaving "lock-out" LED 2 on the PCB lit. When this happens, it is always when the boiler has been off for hours, such as when it attemps to light up in the morning after having been off during the...

Thank you. 2 questions: 1. Having raised the pressure in the system slightly past night (see 1st post), there was a leak from the boiler this morning. I opened it, dried it up, let some water out to reduce the pressure and it no lOnger seems to be leaking. Which bit (weakest link?) normally...

Hi, We've got an open system with a minimiser SE boiler. We moved into this house in May last year and the boiler kettled a lot so over the summer I added a sludge remover to the system, ran it a bit, drained it and filled it back up. It ran fairly quietly until recently. There's a bit of...