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turned out to be a hairline fracture in the hydraulic block just on the neck of the dhw thermistor housing bit of it,,,easy fix,,, less than a tenner and came with a full set of o rings and washers,,,i would change the whole ****box but its piped up in 15mm gas and would need changing to 22mm if...

im going to insulate my cellar ceiling soon,,,ive done one before just using 50mm wool cavity slabs,,,they go up very easily,,,but this time i was thinking of using the ridgid stuff,,,foil backed like celltex or kingspan etc,,,im sure ive heard before the ridgind stuff is twice as good as the...

can anyone reccomend a good woodworm treatment,,,i plan to do the cellar ceiling but the area is massive so i only want to treat it once if possible..................

i noticed a leak on my chaffoteaux britony 80 coming from the left hand side of the heat exchanger plate where it joins the hydraulic box,,,thats the plastic housing bit that the dhw thermistor sits in,,,going to try 4 new o rings first,,,if not its not that could it be the hydraulic box i...

turned ou to be the carpets,,,the previous owner had a few dogs,,,the carpets have been down since the eighties i reckon,,,full of dog dander,,,dust mites etc etc,,,all been ripped up and skipped.......

ive had a kidde digital carbon monoxide alarm on for over a week and it is reading zero,,,ive had it allover the house,,,even a few meters from the boiler and still nothing,,,im just about to get one of the lads out off the oftec link above to give the boiler a safety check,,,see if theres any...

hello,,,i recently moved into a different house,,,ive been there less than a month,,,after a couple of weeks i started getting chest pains and sore throats,,,also my jack russel who had been in perfect health before we moved in started having seizures and breathing dificulties,,,ive had to send...

so a standard chemical flush will shift all the crap from the system???,,,or do you mean get it powerflushed???

im trying to get my system clean lad,,,the plumber tells me a powerflush will cause leaks everywhere on an old system and this is the best way to do it before he gives it a chemical clean,,,one of the biggest rads is absolutely chock full of crap,,,only the top six inches of the rad is getting...

i plan to get a chemical flush etc done shortly,,,but first i want to get the majority of it out before the lad comes to do it,,,the system is quite old and apparently a powerflush will do morte harm than good,,,so ive been advised to do it this way.................

hello,,,finally got the old chaff 80 in my new house up and running after a new diverter valve and pcb,,,the system is absolutely full of crap so i intend to flush the rads one by one,,,my question is,,,is it best to take them outside and flush them through with a hose??? if i was to do this do...

can anyone tell me something about the long greay ribbon wire coming from the pcb??? the place where i purchased tells me it is for an optional extra which i dont have,,, so my question is does it just get left hanging loose in the electrical box or what??? it has a steel wire...

i took both of mine out last week to clean them on my chaff 80,,,the dhw one you just isolate the valve below and unscrew but the c.h one on the right of it i had to drain the boiler first.

hello,,,i installed a new pcb today in my chaffoteaux britony 80,,,the only reason it needed a new pcb is the temperature spindle had broken off half way down the stem,,,long story the last owners had superglued the knobs to the spindles instead of replacing them,,,anyway,,,now thw new pcb is...

can anyone tell me where the long grey ribbon wire coming from the pcb is supposed to be connected to??? i had the pcb's out of my chaffoteaux britony 80 yesterday and after reasembling it i am still left with the long grey ribbon wire unconnecte???

hello,,,i have had the pcb's out of my chaffoteaux today to take a good look at them,,,after putting them back in i noticed there was a long grey ribbon wire with a grey pin connector coming from the control pcb but for the life of me cannot figure out where it connects to??? is it for an...

after 3 different plumbers looking at this boiler and scratching their heads and advising me to fit a new one,,,i tried a few things myself which id read on this site,,,the problem was a blocked copper gauze filter,,,took me ten minutes with a toothbrush and the boiler is working as it...

its just a terrace house,,,3 rads up,,,4 down,,,and downstairs bathroom...