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the pressure is kept at about 1mb cold mate,,,the old pump was definitely knackered,,,it was quite hard to turn the impellar with my hand when I took the pump apart,,,the new one just spins freely on it own,,,i was just a bit confused about the max pressure difference written on the pumps,,,like...

you'll do for me boilerman2...........

well took the lid off the boiler today and everything was right there,,,pump and three way valve,,,the pump was getting extremely hot when the burner was on,,,i took it apart and it was quite hard to turn the impellar,,,I bought a new one today,,,a bosch replacement for the grundfos I had,,,the...

hello,,,i have a camray 5 oil burner,,,it fires up and heats the water in the boiler fine but sends no hot water to taps and no hot water to rads,,,going to have a look at it tomorrow,,,common sense tells me its either the pump or the three way valve,,,most likely the pump I would say,,,can...

i found out my mistake the next morning mate,,,the filter nearest the boiler had oil underneath,,,the filter cup wasnt on the o ring right,,,no wonder i couldnt get the diesel through,,,once id got the filter oil tight i just done the usual thing of loosening the bleed screw,,,pulling the...

hello,,,i have a rilello oil burner and it has airlocked,,,a few times in the past it has done this and i usually just open the bleed screw,,,press the reset button and pull out the photo cell so its got constant light to trick it into running constant until all the air bubbles come out...

yes mate the smell was acidic,,,and always worse on a windy day,,,definately the chimney,,,i plan to put rain caps on the pots at the top and pull the wool out,,,the coal fire has a sort of steel well under where the actual fire would burn,,,or where the grate would stand if you know what i...

hello,,,my shrader valve on my chaff 80 is leaky,,,do i replace the whole valve or just the bit what screws into the valve???,,,do plumbers merchants carry these or is it car or bike shops for such a thing???

i blocked the fireplace back up a couple of days ago and smell has completely dissapeared thank god,,,it has been the damp soot all along,,,i looked up the chimney and seen some wool insulation someone had pushed up there in the past,,,plus there is no rain cap on the pots at the top so you can...

nothing under the floorboards mate ive been under there and theres nothing suspect,,,there is however a massive fireplace that was blocked up with a steel plate and sealed with mastick untill i opened it up to take a look inside months ago,,,ill seal it back up and see if the headaches stop......

no mate no gas appliances,,,only a boiler in the cellar and ive had that checked out,,,boilers been off last three days or so as its been so warm here,,,its either dog wee soaked into the pine floorboards or the nicotine stained walls i reckon,,,defo not a cold this has been going on for...

hello,,,i recently bought a property which was built around 1900,,,i painted a room out and lifted the carpets and sanded the floorboards so i could live in that room while i renovated the rest of the rooms etc,,,the room i painted out was wall papered and had been used by the previous owner as...

took the flexi hose off today and no blockage atall,,,hardly any air pressure in vessel,,,pumped it up to 0.7 bar as it said in the manual,,,filled it back up with water to 1 bar and ran the heating for about half an hour,,,it went up to about 1.6 bar and stayed there,,,all seems good,,,fingers...

plumber said system too old to be power flushed,,,cause more harm than good,,,so i took rads off last year and manually flushed them then added some inhibitor,,,plan to renew whole system eventually but trying to keep the chaff going till then............

hello i have a chaff britony 80 and believe the flexi hose is clogged up with sludge again,,,it did exactly the same thing around six months ago,,,pressure going right up then dumping out the overflow,,,plumber came and just cleaned out the flexi pipe and all has been fine since until...

are all bricks the same or are some stronger than others etc??? i know when i was buying blocks for the internal walls you could get them in different strengths like 3 newton, or 5 newton etc etc,,,the best bricks i have ever seen are the old fire bricks which are the colour of ivory,,,mainly...

hello can any of you builders or bricklayers tell me why the bricks arent very good quality these days or am i just buying crappy bricks??? i done a self build a few year ago and after a couple of winters the faces on some of the bricks were crumbling off,,,ive noticed this happening on other...

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can anyone help me out with this??? i took the microswitch apart and cleaned all the little brass bits inside,,,i cant see how it could be the microswitch as nothing inside of it can break,,,the lift pump is running continuasly whether the microswitch lever is switched up or down,,,the pump...

hello,,,my hotpoint dryer hasnt been pumping the water up to the water tray,,,after taking a look i realised the lift pump was broken,,,new pump came today and works fine,,,trouble is it wont turn off,,,its just stuck on continuasly,,,not responding to the misroswitch,,,just a new microswitch i...