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Can I also ask if I can apply the above calculation to my unmarked dial as I'd like to know my flow temperature. It's a Greenstar system boiler.

Thanks for the advice. My flow temperature dial (Worcester Greenstar Ri) shows just a black arc which gets increasingly thicker towards a 'max' marking. What temperature am I at now, for instance? (The cylinder stat is clearly marked from 40 to 80 and it's at 60 at the moment).

Thanks, I suspected as much. I've taped it in for the moment with some of that strong black tape and it's definitely sitting snugger but I expect that the heat will affect the adhesion in a day or two.

I posted a few days ago that my domestic hot water was very, very hot. I linked that to me having increased the boiler flow temp. Well today I decided to investigate more and I see that my HW thermostat is attached low down on the cylinder but the white wire thing that was securing it has come...

The less/fewer debate has been around for years. It's 'you should of/could of' instead of 'should have etc.' which is, if anything, more common. I think that this one is hardly noticed in speech but it stands out when written.

It's interesting that the water companies don't seem to ask if you want a smart meter, they just install it. Yet gas and electricity meters have to be by way of consent. I wonder why there's a difference. One thing I would say is that the water meter is much more difficult to monitor, check or...

A guy just turned up and crouched down behind the garden wall. He didn't appear for a while so I grabbed a crowbar (not really!) and went out. He was from Thames Water and he was installing a smart water meter. I didn't know that such a thing existed but he was very professional and tested...

Thanks, I'll check the cylinder stat is OK - to be honest I rarely touch it.

I recently increased my boiler flow temperature (system boiler) as the radiators weren't really coping with the very low temperatures. The house is now warm, but I've noticed that our hot water is noticeably hotter even though I haven't touched the cylinder thermostat. Is that normal?

I would like to protect a couple of airbricks from water ingress. The airbricks are at ground level. Is there anything you'd recommend? I made a new paved area with gaps for plants and I used quite thick slabs up to the house, including where the ventilation bricks are. I did tilt the slabs...

I have two suppliers - BG for gas and EDF for electricity. I have a smart meter from EDF which works flawlessly. I'm due to have a gas meter installed by BG, so does anyone know if my EDF meter will be able to relay the gas reading to a different supplier? Or will I have to continue with...

Leave enough space to be able to walk around it for maintenance. I made that mistake with a greenhouse right up against a fence which is now impossible to clean behind.

Definitely box everything up before the work starts. My MIL had a very nice boiler man and his apprentice who did a superb job but managed to break an old jug as they were moving a table. Turned out it had considerable sentimental value but she didn't mention it at the time as she liked the...

A few years ago my neighbour was contemplating installing a hot tub on her decking. I said I had no worries so she asked others who live opposite. They said that they often watched her sunbathing out there so they had no objection to the tub. She never did build it!

My front door has the usual sensors - one large one attached to the door frame with the little blue light and one smaller one attached to the door. The small one is very loose and I'm afraid it going to fall off eventually (the one on my back door is solidly attached, so I know that the front...

My sender unit has given up the ghost - screen blank for no reason or flashing to say I haven't set the date etc. I used to be able to reset it but now it's just going blank during the night and then we have no early-morning heating until I get up and put it to 'manual'. Anyhow, the receiver...

My Gas Safe engineer came to fit a gas hob. The ignition for the existing one is under the kitchen units. He asked me where it was and I told him, so he bent down and unplugged. When he removed the old hob he disconnected the wire and there was a spark or two. The RCD tripped. He had...

In the spring I bought two small plastic storage units (different manufacturers) for the garden. They were kept on the patio and I stored small tools, pots, liquid fertilisers etc. in them. As they were always quite dry inside I made the mistake of using them for other stuff like cushions and...

I'm about to order a gas hob. The company also offers installation but I'm a bit wary about this and am considering getting a local installer to do the job. Before I decide, can I be sure that the seller's installers will be Gas Safe registered? Will they be under any time deadlines? Are any...

Current gas hob measures 50x58cm. Suggested replacement measures 51.5 by 59.5. How precisely should the replacement mirror the original? I would imagine that it's the space below that matters and that they're all a standard size.