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Kim- I dont know if this is the way to get a message to you. I liked your IG servicing. I have installed quite a few IG boilers and am hoping to retire when the next £200 fee comes due and I suddenly become incompetent overnight. I will be looking for someone to recommend to my customers for...

He's very eloquent and knowledgeable. I have said for a couple of years that by 2025 we will have a muslim government. Who is Tommy Robinson? I dont know.

Those of us who were around in the 1970's will recall that we were facing increased security on our streets from the IRA who were doing just this sort of thing, except they were bombing buildings and killing lots of innocent civilians. Now the convicted murderers are leading the Irish...

I'd better renew my IOM passport and not sell my IOM house then .

I had hoped the Police armed guards they get in hospital would be there to prevent any doctors or nurses assisting them as they slowly bleed to death. Instead they will get fed, clothed, housed, with Sky TV, a personal fitness trainer, 5 meals a day, instant dental and health care as they skip...

So would I if I were him and read all these posts.

Apart from being bored with all this personal slagging off, I am interested to know where Joe gets this figure of £1000 a day. I never mentioned anything like that. I charge £200 a day. As for a £1500 flue, I own a property with a boiler 3 floors up where the flue exits up from the boiler...

The power flush will take at best half a day, with 2 guys working together in unison. I take most of a day for the flush. I suggest you get British Gas in for a quote, to use as a yard stick. They will be the high end of the pricing, but their quote will include a power flush, and thermostatic...

Getting back to the original question: is this something I should worry about. There is a difference between something worth worrying about, i.e will you wake up in the morning, and something that works but not as well as it should. This is the latter category. The boiler won't give its full...

There are vans and electronic devices that are necessary, and others that are status symbols. I run a perfectly good 10 year old van that obviously costs very much less than a shiny new computer-ridden money pit van. I don't have a fancy mobile that does internet and facebook. And I don't have...

Last time I looked it was OK for a house owner or anyone else who is not a professional electrician to do certrtain small electrical works. These include changing a 13A socket for another one in the same location, adding a spur to a ring, changing a light switch or lamp batten. Therefore I don't...

When the only car you could get with a reversing sensor on was a BMW and they were a £750 extra I and a friend designed one. There being no Dragons about, and me being an iggerant thickie, I went round the Motor Show in Earls Court saying something to the effect of "Oi mister, you want to buy...

Something I did do right was to design and sell something to a major motor manufacturer where I was making £50,000 a month net profit. That wasn't pointless.

Do all baths sit on legs and feet, or are there some that are built in to the side of a granite mountain? Does anyone know of baths in houses which sit on something other than legs / feet? I've got an idea... But it might be big and I may need the Dragons. Trouble is, most of my inventions...

Wolseley Hornets were lovely. Thick leather seats, walnut dashboard, bigger boot than a mini. What more could you want? And a chrome plated handbrake lever, as I remember.

Namsag- yes I did notice the date of the post. What brought me there was a search for a part number on google and I just started reading it and thought well done, I wouldn't bother breaking open a microswitch, but as a long time research engineer in electronic products I know the satisfaction...

Thats what I like to see Spikey! A bit of initiative. £9 for a switch is trivia in boiler repair terms but if it took you 30 minutes and you are a minimum wage earner then that is equivalent to over three hours pay. Clearly as you have intelligence you are not a minimum wage earner though. If...

Richard- Get a quote from a gas engineer, since that is what they want. Also go to CIPHE, Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineers. They will point you to a local competent plumber who will have insurance, and get a quote from them. I bet your council Jobsworth doesn't know the...

I am a gas safe registered engineer. You do not have to have a gas safe registered engineer to move a radiator. You do need a gas safe registered engineer to work on anything that will involve gas, or the correct functioning of a gas boiler, such as moving a flue or changing a gas-related...

This reminds me of when I worked in a Research and Development department of a computer company. We had to make keyboards, CPUs and screens that would continue to work in a heavy radiation fallout environment. We succeeded in this, but it did make me wonder that as humans couldn't survive in...