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The door is made of 3 vertical panels say 7ftsx2fts. I am thinking of using masking tape on both sides of the central panel leaving the joints open for the painting of the side panels. Then later put masking tape on the completed side panels next to the joint. That way when I paint the central...

Thankyou for your reply. I am now in the process of burning off the old paint and starting to remember what I did last time. I did use a special metals primer and possibly Hammerite. I will most likely use a oil based paint this time. Would oil based topcoat be ok on top of a new application of...

my metal garage door requires repainting. I painted it about 20 years ago and I have forgotten the type of paint that I used. The door will be painted in situ. Best paint is oil based?. Water based?. Polyurethane?. I intend lightly sanding the door, then undercoating it, the top coat would be...

Yes, I did think it was a forum to assist diy householders. Did not think anybody would be asking questions about dust suppression at the pithead, which incidentally I could have helped them with.Ha-ha.

Thanks for that Nige F. Help lighten the mood Ha-ha.

Aquaheat, what did I do to deserve this. I don't remember saying that I had never set up a burner. I did set them up occassionaly, gas and oil. I have got to go back 45 years to remember. No digital helps in those days, flue temp. reading, flue gas reading. adjusting airflow across the burner...

wow you testing my memory. Lets see now, Ideal Standard and Beeston are two that spring to mind.Nipples with a coating of linseed oil, pulled together with a pulling up bar and coaxed together with a pudlock. Burners supplied by British Oil and Gas (I know you will correct me if I have got that...

Boilers that were assembled on site had their burners commissioned by the burner supplier, so not our areas of expertise.

The thing is most people on here would be domestic heating engineers. I was industrial and commercial and was not involved in houses. The larger companies had heating engineers who specialised in assembling cast iron boilers usually in basements. I did a stint at that at Manchester University...

Nice chap, I did not do it myself because I am 80 yrs old. I do not know any RGIs. I have been out of the trade for over 20years. Gas count, I could not think of the right terminology for checking how many cubic mtrs per hour at the meter. I did pull him up about checking the meter readings...

Does a service engineer have further qualifications? My experience with this company is that they are installers posing as service engineers. One of them was doing a gas count while the boiler was modulating.

which number do they put on their jobsheet.

Does an engineer keep the same registeration number? Can a company have a gas care registeration number and can unregistered fitters use it? Can an unregistered fitter have his work signed off by a registered one?. I am a retired heating eng. and I am puzzled by the jobsheets that the service...

Inhibitor was introduced into the full system via Magnaclean.

Heating tank has a thick jellylike skin on top of water. The water is reasonably clear. I cleaned the tank last year because it was smelly. not smelly now just a thick skin on top. Thanks.

f and e tank has a jelly like skin on top of water. water is reasonably clear. tank and system was cleaned out one year ago for a similar problem. any ideas? thanks.

Problem is, the system is quiet when running at top temp. on modulated flame.

Vented system.

It is causing the nearest rad to need venting.