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Can you follow these steps and get back to us with answers to the Qs. 1) Have someone hold ball up so no water fills tank from ball valve. 2) Switch on hot tap and let it run for a while. If the level is dropping it will drop past the overflow exit from the tank and the overflow will stop...

I have a mate who lives in a 25 yr old flat and on his heating system he has to manually open a valve in the airing cupboard in order to divert water around the CH loop (interesting set up I know), as there is no CH timer and associated motorized valve. Could this be your problem - big shot in...

Could it just be build up of limescale in the shower head restricting the flow (hence the new shower head fixed it 6 months ago)? Maybe just try descaling the head for a quick fix? Sorry Tony, just read your post and you've already suggested this.

Thanks for the reply, I shall have a look tonight when I get home. Looked last night. Couldn't see any form of plastic thingy at the top although there was one half way up the side which seemed to be in OK condition. Found that by making sure that I pull the window firmly in whilst...

One of the double glazing windows (the left one) in my bedroom isn't closing correctly. When closed there is a gap at the top left corner of the window large enough that the rubber seals don't seal and a draught is blowing. Is there a way to adjust the concertina type opening mechanism to pull...

A mate of mine lives in a leasehold flat. The management company appears to have disappeared into the blue yonder with everyone denying all knowledge of it's existance. The freehold has recently been bought by a new owner who seems good as gold, the old one was a complete waste of space by...

Whats the make of the valve? and how old is it? I had a honeywell motorised valve that used to make quite a ticking sound as it operated and occasionally used to fail to open causing heating not to come on. Never got round to replacing it as it was an older style one without the...

Sorry I don't know a huge amount of the details as her family are looking into it and I haven't had the full low down. I'm just trying to help if I can without seeming to intrude too much It is a purchased leasehold flat It was a tap overflowing - not sure if it was a faulty tap or left...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but it's kind of plumbing related so someone may know the answer so here we go... My Fiance's sister has had a leak from her flat which has then caused damage to flats below her in the building. Her landlord hasn't got an accidental damage...

Mine doesn't. Goes up to about 90-95 (red is 110?) then the fan kicks in and it flies back down to 70-80 (from memory). Climbs steadily back up in tracffic and cycle repeats.

No still the larger one I would imagine. You would expect to have individual feeds coming from it for cold water and hot water. Look around there should be at least 2 pipes exiting the tank, hopefully each with stopcock (You've identified the cold one already) Not exactly sure what the...

Sounds similar to my setup in an old flat. If so you should have two feeds from the main large cold tank in the loft. One you have correctly identified as the cold feed. The other would be a feed into the base of the hot water tank (the pressure pushes the hot water out the top). There...

Not sure is this is strictly the correct forum but its about heating so... I am looking to put a conservatory on my house and would ideally like underfloor heating. I have a few things to consider. Do I go for heating off the main system (water) or a separate electrical underfloor...

Cold present in the rest of the bathroom would prove that this is not the case? Unless the rest of the bathroom is mains cold. Actually she said it was T-d off the rest of the bathroom so ignore the mains cold suggestion

Can you get into the attic and find the source of the sound? Is your loft tank overflowing (probably out of a pipe in the sides of one of your facias just under the roofline)? Could be a broken ball valve?

Now if I swap over the two solenoids and I have a perfectly working boiler then.. 1) I am very happy and also very grateful for all your help. 2) Slightly confused as this was not what I was expecting but I'm not going to argue.

Is solenoid swapping an easy task? How do I go about it? Just thought I'd ask now before getting home tonight and seeing that I had no clue on how to do it!! Presumably if solenoid is the problem take the duff one to my nearest supplier and get a replacement? Where would be likely to sell...

What would be the fix for an open circuit solenoid? Replacement? Can I replace just the solenoid or is it the whole control. Yes it is the one with the two solenoids under a blue cover, in my installation on the underside of the gas valve. If I'm right one does the pilot light and one the...

OK, so I couldn't test the resistance, but the main valve solenoid does have 240V across it when expected to fire. The make of boileer is a Gloworm Ultimate xxFF (xx would be 30/40/50/60) not sure which according to the manual. Went through the troubleshooting flowchart in the manual...

Apologies I don't know the model derivative and am now at work so can't check. The pilot extinguishes and relights on demand (Certainly when I turned the boiler on and off last night - I didn't shut off the gas supply however). It doesn't appear to continue sparking once the pilot is lit...