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In freezing conitions heating oil goes "waxy"and thick.I dont know what to suggest as insulating the pipe work wont help if the storage tank is exposed to the cold.All i can think of is perhaps contacting your oil supplier to ask if there are any additives you can put into the tank to prevent...

Whenever ive tiled onto wood ive always "painted"neat unibond onto the wood to seal it,allowed it to go off,then tiled it and never had any problems with it.I dont know if there are any other methods available. Hope this helps.

If your on friendly terms with your neighbours you could try buying them a roll of draught excluder,the foam type which is sticky on one side for it to stick to the door frame.This cushions the bang when the door closes. You would have to be tactful when suggesting they use it,perhaps telling...

If your combi has a balanced flue or fanned flue then the answer is no,you cant vent it into the stack.You must get a corgi registered installer to install your boiler for legal safety reasons

If the other taps are ok then remove the hose from the shower and turn it on to see if the flow is ok and the boiler ignites.if it does then it could be shower head blocked with lime or kink in the hose.Also does your shower have filters on the inlets,they could be blocked. finnaly check that...

It might be easier to board over the ply walls and remaining wallpaper with very thin plywood again.That way you would have flat smooth sufaces to paper onto.Hope this helps.

If you cut the pipes you will not get the cap ends on quick enough as the bur from the cuts will have to be filed off.Its either drain down as breezer said or a can of freeze spray.

A gas service engineer gains his qualification through apprentiship and technical college,not university. I would recommend you cut your losses and invest in a new boiler as breezer has said, you dont know the history of this boiler and you could end up trying lots of different service...

Plumbers mait is a non hardening putty which is used to bed sanitary fittings in place.I think graeme is getting mixed up with a 2 part putty called milliput,which hardens very quickly.plumbers mait will do the job you require but clear silicone is better/neater in my opinion. Dont forget you...

The ballcock sounds very feesable,but also check that the hot supply to the shower is the first joint in the pipe after the pipe leaves the top of the hot water cylinder,but it must not come from the rising section of pipe that comes out of the cylinder.(it must come from the horizontal pipe or...

woody take the pressure to 1.5 and run the boiler to see if it works. all sealed systems have a safety valve fitted in the boiler,this will release the water through the safety valve pipe to outside the house if the pressure is too much .

What youve got is an old fashioned double entry rad valve.if the valve is fully intact,when you remove the rad(leaving the valves in place on the copper pipes) you would have to slide the rad to one side as these valves have a flexible copper tube attached which fit inside the rad.the tube is...

The cold supply to the pump should be from a tank not from the mains. Any mains water moving in the house will activate the pump as well as the increase in pressure at night time.Shower pumps must be tank fed.

The worcester 240 should have a pressure of 1.5 bar not 0.5.when the pressure drops the boiler will shut down . you will need to top it up.the pressure gauge should have a red finger and a black finger.the red should have been set by the installer to show the correct pressure needed to run the...