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    Patio maintanace advice

    Hi guys! Just pressure washer my patio (i belive it is Bradstone Old Riven) which is aprrox 3 years old. I used a reasonable pressure washer but no chemicals at all, just water. On the whole it has come up suprisingly well but there are one or two areas that I cannot get clean. The...
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    Clock running backwards?

    Turn your power off and back on again............it should sort it.
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    GATEVALVE VS STOPCOCK:

    Not all gate valves are full bore, the cheap ones i picked up from plumbcenter the other day were only about 13mm through the centre and that was on the 28mm gatevalve. i took it back and swapped it for a pegler.
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    Which heat only boiler has the longest warranty?

    I take it you live up in sunny Fleetwood with the name Rossall. Seems like only yesterday i was playing hockey on the beach. Anyways, ive been putting quite a few Baxi Solo boiler in of late and have had no bother whatsoever. The early versions were pretty poor but these problems have been...
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    Vokera Fulcrum arm

    I want to know what could possibly be wrong with a fulcrum arm on a vokera excell!!!
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    Sabre Combi Boiler Problem

    Follow the pipe with the flow switch on up to the heat exchanger. Undo the nut where the pipe meets the heat ex and bingo, you will find a blue flow restrictor thats prone for melting. Remove it and then set up the flow manually by using the isolation tap under boiler Its a really comon...
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    New boilers with permanent lives

    The Baxi Solo HE range of conventional boilers have no permanant live or pump live. Just Live neutral and earth, so will replace all boilers on a fully pump system with no additional wiring needed. They were useless a few years back but are a decent boiler now that they have ironed the probs...
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    New Boiler Quote.

    I'd put money on the gas valve being at fault. Ive chenged a couple for very intermittant and no pattern lockout faults and its sorted it.
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    New Boiler Quote.

    Any boiler on the market will do the job. Ask 10 plumbers their fav boiler and you get all sorts of answers!!!! If you like/trust the installer that quoted you, why not trust and follow his advise? Is that not part of the package when your paying good money to an installer? The people on...
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    New Boiler Quote.

    I disagree, Vokera are decent boilers, The Compact is a decent Band B boiler that should, if well installed, give years of trouble free service. Still very popular up here in the Grim north anyway!!
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    Stange problem with an Ecomax

    Honeywell is what I was thinking too............Had the Siemans rep in the merchants today. God awful unit, ugly, large but very very user friendly so might try on on this older custermer of mine. Cheers for the help!
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    Stange problem with an Ecomax

    13 rads on the system Im guessing its time for a new wireless stat then. The cust has not a clue of setting the vaillant one so might go for a Honeywell or something similer. How is the "two point mode" enabled...is it somwthing my customer could have done by chance? He has had the boiler...
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    Stange problem with an Ecomax

    I changed D.0 fit was on 11kw and increased it to 18kw. The rads all heat up ok but they only get to 52degrees when the RF fuction is enabled. If is press the single grey button in the middle of the reciever unit to overide/put into manual the Rf unit then the heating comes up to whatever...
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    Stange problem with an Ecomax

    shameless bump to the top!!!
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    Stange problem with an Ecomax

    I know there are few Vaillant buffs on here so here goes! Ecomax 824/2E with 340f wireless kit DHW fine Heating get only to 52 degrees even with boiler set to 82. If you press the manual/override button on the integral reciever, heating will fire up and reach 82 if required. The...
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    Is this quote reasonable?

    The Wedding fair is always a gooden.......Miss England is another!!!
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    Is this quote reasonable?

    Thank you, i rate her also. I wont name names but she works for a large local firm called Berwins.
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    Is this quote reasonable?

    Then youll know Harrogate was voted the second best place to live in the Uk, second only to Westminster! Shame we couldnt prop you up and you had to move..................
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    Is this quote reasonable?

    Move further north then!!!
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    Is this quote reasonable?

    I picked up on that too Agile. The costings are way over. I suggest it might be a bit of a tax dodge. My solicitor charges a lower daily rate than this plumbing firm!!!
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