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Hi, We've bought a new house which has an older style fuse box. We are getting quotes for getting it changed. Whats been suggested is a two zone RCD with MCB's. Is this a good idea? Instead of getting an RCBO? Apparently RCBO is more costly, but does if offer any protection greater...

Thank you to you both - tank has permanent foam jacket.

Hi, Thank you for reply. Just looked. There is a Drayton CS-4 thermostat with numbers 1-8 I believe. Its currently set to 4. No temperatures as such. So does this mean even though HW is set for 4 hours a day, that the back boiler will only fire to heat the water if it reaches level 4...

Hi, We've bought a new house which has a hot water tank and a digital thermostat. The CH and HW timings of when they come on and off can be set individually. At the moment I've the HW coming on for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening... This seems to...

Hi, We've a mixer shower which is probably 3 -4 years old. We noticed earlier in the year it start to change temp from hot to cold (being cold most of the time). Around the same time the shower head for want of a better word broke and water came pouring out of the shower head seal...

Hi, Ok thanks... At hot its just below 1... at cold it drops to maybe .5. Sounds like it needs topping up... Ta

Hi, Blooming cold at the moment and tho rads are warm/hot have noticed our combi boiler pressure is maybe at .75 - is that a problem? Have read it should be 1 - 1.5. What are the symptoms of low boiler pressure? Thank you Ben

Grand - thank you for the replies. Will have to bookmark this site...

Thanks for the reply - gave em a call back. They can get someone out but it could be anywhere between now and 8am :shock: So am gonna turn off stop cock when go to bed, can i ask. How bad is a leaking boiler, i'm a techy not a plumber so no idea on this sort of thing. Thanks

Hi, Woke up this morning to a leaking Potterton Puma 80 boiler. British Gas can't come round till tomorrow morning, turned the boiler off and leak stopped. Just went back to it and boiler is leaking again from front fascia. Whilst I wait for BG to turn up is there anything i can do to...