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    how to paint newly sand and cement render exterior wall

    one of my house side wall has been render with sand and cement. And need help with the following; how long do I need to leave it before painting it? there is half tube left of SBR PVA. can I mix it 5:1 and give it one coat before applying the masonry paint any recommendation for paint? it is...
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    I run the bath tap for nearly 5 minutes and the boiler is behaving, no loud noise, it is normal now. I think the problem was with the pump. and the less loud noise I reported yesterday was due to some air trapped in the system which has settled now. however, i will keep monitoring it and...
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    sorry Ian, yes you are right. the DHW tap is next to the boiler in the kitchen. I will try to run the bathroom tap and load another video
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    I managed replaced the head of the pump with a working second hand head taking from Worcester 28CDi and refitted the whole pump back, the noised has reduced considerably but still, see below link. it gets worse as the boiler get hot and only when there is a demand for DHW when the gas valve...
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    what do you think the reason for the noise?
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    thanks will try this tomrrow, however, i have already taken off the pump. it is rather strange one because the bottle air vent attached to it. I have physically and it is rotating freely. how can text it electrically to make sure it ok before I put back?
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    do you mean Sentinel x200
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    Alpha 240E boiler making loud noise

    Alpha 240E boiler fires up ok but after few seconds (particularly when there demand for DHW and when the flam starts going high) it makes very loud noise. I think the issue is to do with circulation. the bump is going. can someone confirm please.
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    stoves gas cooker - oven yellow flame

    yes that is correct, the yellow on the left is the thermocouple.
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    stoves gas cooker - oven yellow flame

    forgot to mention that I kept this running for 10 minutes and the carbon monoxide in side the kitchen did not detect anything.
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    stoves gas cooker - oven yellow flame

    see below youTube link to a video the oven is fan assisted and has recently been cleaned. there is a big fan at the back circulating air inside the oven stoves oven flame - YouTube
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    stoves gas cooker - oven yellow flame

    what cause the gas cooker oven to produce yellow flam and how it can be treated.
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    wiring waterline under floor heating to 8000 style Worcester boiler

    many thanks, you are spot on, this is the right instruction. just to confirm my understanding and if we say the boiler is the starting point so that everything is controlled from the same point. I need 4 core cable and the cores will be connected as follows at the boiler end; brown to the L...
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    wiring waterline under floor heating to 8000 style Worcester boiler

    I am trying to wire my under floor heating wiring centre back to the boiler so that it can fire when there is a demand for heating. And this is how the system is set up. the room thermostat and programmer (one in each room/ one zone) has three wires, N, L and L1 (live switch), these wires...
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    how to wire under floor heating wiring center to Worcester boiler

    the under floor heating is controlled by wiring center. this wiring center get the order from wall thermostats when there is a demand for central heating. the wiring center in turn open the zone valve, switch on the plumb at the manifold and send a signal to the boiler to fire up. in the boiler...
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    advise on low loss header

    I understand this is an open free forum and I am entitled to share the knowledge and benefit from other people experience. Therefore, i am not asking you to do the search for me. I am directing my question to whoever can positively and politely help.
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    advise on low loss header

    is it safe to calculate the heat loss from the under floor heating CAD design, see attached, if so then, the total output heat from the 3 manifolds is approximately 15kw. add another 1kw for the small radiator in the main family bathroom would make it 16kw. if the above assumptions are...
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    help finding the water supply blue pipe

    before I started my extension 2 years ago, Thames water redirected the main water supply and run it along side the house. however, they fitted a lot of reduction adaptors to connected it to the 15mm pipe inside the house. I am in a process of upgrading the heating system by installing an...
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    advise on low loss header

    I used the free version. but still I do not know what to select. for example U Value Roof/Ceiling Glazing (W/m2K) . I do not have glazing in my roof. it is a normal pitched roof with 3000mm mineral insulation but all the options refer to glazing or U values which do not know what it is.
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    advise on low loss header

    the calculation might be wrong, I only entered few parameters correct but the rest I did not understands (particularly the UV values) so just gust them, is there and instructions to show mw how to use the heat loss calculations?
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