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    DIY Kitchens

    Hi All Anybody bought diy kitchens from Wren kitchens or any other retailer. What experience they had. I visited wren kitchens at the weekend. Their demo kitchens look good. Any ideas.
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    New Kitchen

    Hi All Anybody bought diy kitchen from selco and wrenkitchens. I would like to know their experiance good and bad. Thanks in advance.
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    New kitchen

    Hi All I have been nagged since christmas for a new kitchen. For last fortnight I have been to B&Q, HOMEBASE, WICKS, and today to MAGNET. I found similarities in wicks and B&Q kitchens. I wouldn't be surprised if both came from same source. Magnet essentials range appears very good. I...
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    Vaillant Ecomax

    He isolated CH, then he drained off the main HE. The pressure gauge was on ZERO. He changed the expansion vessel to 1 bar. He then opened the CH circuit valves and adjusted the pressure to 1.5 bar. Fired the boiler calling for heat as soon as the rads started to heat up. He then asked me...
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    Vaillant Ecomax

    Dear All Yesterday my good friend rang me to let me know his heating engineer cousin is visiting him. He can look at my boiler. He checked the boiler and bleed the system. He said air has got into system. Now the boiler is not as bad as it was yesterday in that the kettling noise has...
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    Further Problems Vaillant Ecomax

    Hi All vaillant Ecomax 828 2/E Condensing Boiler I have new problems with my boiler. Having sorted pressure loss I have noticed the boiler has become noisy. I took front cover off. Turned hot water on the main heat exchanger is very noisy and gas valve is on and off. Still delivering hot...
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    Vaillant Ecomax PRV

    Hi "Beerlover" Thank you for your input. Sound advice. I would buy you all a pint for sure.
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    Vaillant Ecomax PRV

    Hi "ChrisR" Thank you to you also. I have also done as you have suggested. Hopefully this will have cleared any debris stuck on the PRV seat. Also I agree with you PRV is a safety device therefore should be used as such without any repairs undertaken.
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    Vaillant Ecomax PRV

    Hi "Boilerman2" Thanks very much for analysis. I did exactly what you wrote. The pressure is now holding and I will keep watching it for couple of days. The Boiler was serviced in march whether the expansion vessel was looked at I couldn't say.
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    Vaillant Ecomax PRV

    Hi all You Guys helped me identify the pressure loss on my ecomax boiler. I picked a new PRV locally from a boiler spares shop. I fitted the PRV and the pressure drop stopped. It was a aftermarket part. Same problem has started again. This evening I checked the pressure relief pipe...
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    Replace old radiaters

    Hi All I would like to change five radiaters. Two have pin holes in. Remaining three are on the large old imperial sizes. Which are the good quality rads on the market. Looking online there are quite a few. Biasi, quinn, stelrad, Etc. Not keen on stelrad had bad experiance with them some...
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    Pigeons

    Hi All This year pigeons have nested on three properties in my street. One property is mine. I was on my bay window roof this afternoon. There is piles of pigeon crap and feathers. How do I get rid of them and clean their crap before I start repairs to my roof before winter sets in.
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    UPVC WINDOWS

    After I got my house painted outside my white upvc windows look dull. Is there anything on the market to restore upvc windows.
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    Outside paint

    Hi Jondecs You are right about the price of paint. Sandtex coloured smooth exterior paint is £25 for 5 litres. The walls are sound without algae/fungas. Minor repairs needed where old downpipe brackets were removed leaving holes to fill. At back one spot is very difficult to get to with...
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    Outside paint

    Hi All I would like to know how much would it cost to paint outside of my house. originaly 3 bedroomed now extended to 4 bedrooms. The house is pebble dashed painted 3 or 4 times in last 30 years. The new extension is also rough cast pebble dashed. This stuff is rough. What sort of price...
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    Paint new build pebbledash

    Hi "roughcaster" I have seen them demonstrated on idealworld. Yesterday I called Earlex technical assistance. The Man was very good and told me to use sprayer masonary paint, the paint have to be diluted 50%. Diluted water based paint will be messy to spray and it looses its properties...
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    Paint new build pebbledash

    Hi All Last week I helped a friend paint his new pebbledashed garage. It was difficult to paint using sandtex exterior smooth paint. The paint has gone on quite well but its not covered pebbledash completely. Its holed. Doesn't look bad from distance but not good when you get close. Can...
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    Dormer Build has commenced

    [/url] Good show I now have some idea as to what is going on. My neighbour has failed with his over ambitious plans therefore reverted to 50 cu meter ruling needing no permission.
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    Dormer Build has commenced

    My local MP claimed for his two London homes as well Nine apple macs yes 9 in the financial year 08/09. Surely 2 or 3 macs could be understood but 9. Sadly he has been re-elected. Back to the subject of dormers. How do you calculate the volume of a dormer. On my local councils website it...
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    Dormer Build has commenced

    Yeah I have thought of putting my name forward. You are made once you become an MP. Get/Earn (delete which doesn't apply) good wage and perks.
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