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I disagree, for example I use them for small packs of accessories, such as 3 brass wheel brushes (not the pack with 3 different ones) so I don't get lots of bits I won't use. Dremel direct is £2:15 each, tinytool is £3.66 for 3. Everything else I use is dremel (the tool, adaptors and the...

I'm another vote for corded. It's an amazingly useful tool that you'll never realise you needed. In the last week or two I've used it to refurb my bbq, refurb bathroom taps, clean off paint, sand the edges off of timber, sharpen kitchen knives, clean up the frames of my windows and a few...

I'd go for the vaillant. modern pottertons tend to start falling apart after a few years because the build quality isn't particularly good

most places stock the electrodes because they're such a common fault

Poorly fitted flue seal or incorrectly calibrated gas valve. an rgi would need to check those.

That price is £588.28 too expensive. I can only see the point in ariston boilers if you're fitting it in an enemies house

If it's the main heat exchanger/cylinder it's been obsolete for 4 years or so. Baxi/potterton bought Range and then wiped their hands clean of that range of powermaxs. They're not very well designed boilers.

That's true BG stopped fitting them due to the sheer volume of insurance claims due to leaks. They're a good idea but are of very poor quality. They've had faulty lids, faulty lid seals, faulty valves and bleed points failing to reseal. Basically the whole thing has faults.

last time I spoke to heatrae sadia about an external expansion vessel on a megaflo i was told it's not allowed

on an open vented system the cold feed and open vent pipes are sometimes piped round the wrong way but until a stronger pump (or pump speed is increased) it doesn't cause any problems. The cold feed pipe comes from the feed & expansion tank, this is the one that fills the system and takes up...

It's not hard to be impressed by any other boiler if you think pottertons are good, they do the promax, even a ferroli is reliable and well built compared to that! ;-)

The flue and fittings also have to be mupvc or pvc-c. Upvc or abs are incorrect and classed as 'at risk' so if, and I suspect it will be, flued with these the entire flue needs replacing. Kestons are unreliable expensive heaps of junk.

Vaillant ecotec 418, sealed system, magnabooster, honeywell controls (inc programmable wireless stat), drayton trv4s. Tribune unvented waiting to be fitted. All pipework is copper.

As already said most new builds have plastic pipe and pretty much all of it is NOT installed correctly, almost every time I visit a house with water coming through the ceiling it's split plastic pipe or plastic fittings fallen off. From the sound of it your installer wants to run the pipes...

If using plastic pipe remember to clip it properly. Almost every leak through a ceiling I've seen in the last 2-3 years has been plastic pipe split (and they split big!) through being bent, leaking when fittings are strained due to a bend or fittings coming off. I prefer copper all the way but...

Got any mixer taps? Or a shower with a mixer? If so turn off the mains water to the boiler and see if the hot tap still runs

The tenant didn't want me adjusting or altering anything so the landlord would see it all as it is. I left it all turned off at the fusebox due to water in the lights. I just identified the problem, so that she had an idea of what the landlord and his plumber need to check and repair. All I...

A new tenant moved in to a rented house in my road today, within a few hours she had hot water through the ceiling from the loft. Another neighbour who she'd already met came to get us (I'm a central heating man). When we got there the ceiling was already down, someone was saying a tank burst...

i've never had a problem with vaillant tech help, worcester on the other hand telling me incorrect information, part numbers and dodging jobs have annoyed me! Worcester do answer the phone quicker though.

so working 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, no holidays and earn 36.5k then also have to pay for the van, tools and tax, sod that for the pathetic take home wage you'll end up with. i believe 90% of powerflushes done aren't actually necessary. I'm amazed at the amount of people advised to...