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Ahhh ok, thanks for the advice. I was thinking the whole ring would've been heating up the plug!

ok guys boiler has finally started to work as it should, DHW now working without central heating, so i'm thinking the the Fernox F3 is working away? slightly side tracking now, I had more or less all rads changed with brand new ones a year ago, but have noticed that one 1600mm in the...

LOL by the way, i had guests around and so used a single 3kw fan heater in one socket in conservatory. good news is, it heated it up in no time and was comfortable for guests. BAD NEWS is the friggin plug started getting 'quite' hot, so i switched it off and decided to use a 2kw fan heater...

Many thanks Looking at reviews on argos for fan heaters I reckon I'll be fine with just one 3kw heater. Really appreciate your sound advice :-)

Hi I bought the house a year ago with conservatory already built. The electrics 'look ' as though they've been done professionally, as does the whole conservatory itself. The conservatory has about 3 double power sockets installed around it. I was thinking of using it as a dining during...

Do you think it's worth getting a brand new diverter assembly altogether? Brand new genuine interpart one only £83 on eBay. I've already paid £166 in total though and don't really want to throw much more if it's going to just be a gamble?

Tony, yeah u guessed it right, he's ex BG technical engineer :-) Gas112, he changed both top and front (larger) diaphragms including but and washer at front etc, cleaned & lubed up with silicone stuff but still, the top pin not hitting high enough to switch fan on with just DHW. The DHW does...

Hi Tony thanks for reply. I had changed the DHW heat exchanger with an original brand new InterPart one exactly 12 months ago and had a magna clean and descaler fitted. yesterday I opened up the magna clean after 8 months, and it was covered in black iron oxide, but to be honest, it wasn't...

haha, exactly, i was amazed, how can you connect a laptop to an 18 year old baxi combo boiler!! but just as he said I'm going to van to get my laptop, I had to leave for work, so I couldn't see what he did. i've got a new boiler installation booked for this coming Friday, do you think I...

yep, definitely does, I saw the plumber push the microswitch with the screwdriver and, Bam!!, boiler fan starts, pressure switch clicks, burner fires up and piping hot water as usual. if it was the DHW thermister I reckon that plumber would have picked up on it, he also connected a laptop to...

definitely does, everything on the boiler is ready to be fired, its that one pin on the diverter valve that hits the microswitch for the boiler fan which just doesn't go high enough if the central heating is off. as a result, the boiler just keeps waiting for fan to come on and then eventually...

ok guys I did the RIGHT thing and got a very good (but expensive!) gas safe plumber to take a look at the boiler. long story short, he changed both diaphragms on the diverter valve including the nut, with original InterPart parts, and cleaned and lubed up the required areas in the diverter...

oh yeah, I also did that test. turned central heating completely off. just tested hot water, and diverter valve pin definitely came out and pushed the DHW switch. boiler then just waiting for fan to start up, but no power to it. when CH on and working, i turned hot water on, pin came out as...

had one come down yesterday and just insisted i changed the boiler for a new one and pay him. he said the fan was playing up, but i know a bit about electrics, it wasn't the fan, its the power to the fan.

Please help, boiler playing up. I have to keep the central heating on for the hot water to work. i opened up the boiler and found that if only the hot water is running, there is no 240V power to the boiler fan, and therefore the boiler doesn't fire up. when i put central heating on...

Thanks for reply The wall heights in the garage are 2.2m, how many 'rows' of noggins should I use? I.e. what should the vertical spacing be? You said 600mm apart, is that the space between studs or from their centre to centre? Thanks

Many thanks for such a detailed reply Walty, has given me the push to do it myself, I just need to decipher the jargon terms u have used like vertical studs & noggins.....lol

Hi everyone am new to this forum and a fairly novice DIYer, although I am becoming familiar with most DIY tasks, and have got myself decent dewalt tools. right, I basically have a double garage, which has been built very well, it has 2 'up-n-over' doors at the front, and at the back...