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    Bleeding water circulator

    Thanks Pauly, That sounds like exactly the information I was after. Mike
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    Bleeding water circulator

    Hi, I've just installed a new hot water cylinder. The system uses a Johnson and Starley Hijan 6 water heater/circulator and I can't work out how to refill the circulator pipes with water. I've tried opening the drain valve, but no water comes out. All pipes from the water tank are opened...
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    Blocked flue

    I should add, he looked in the loft at the flue and never reported any problems (I've looked myself and can't see anything obviously wrong). The rest of the run is concealed behind walls. I'm located in Fareham (Locks Heath)
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    Blocked flue

    He determined it was a blocked flue by using a couple of smoke generators which showed the smoke refusing to go up the flue in both the air and water burners (says 'spillage' on the red tag). I don't know if the unit was fired and left to warm up. I wasn't watching what he was doing, but I...
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    Blocked flue

    He used a couple of smoke generators which showed the smoke refusing to go up the flue in both the air and water burners (says 'spillage' on the red tag). I've looked up twin wall on google, and yes, it looks like one of those. I take it a new flue means ripping apart the walls to get to...
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    Blocked flue

    The flue goes vertically up through the roof (with a couple of slightly angled joints in the roofspace). Isn't a twinwall flue the type that goes horizontally through a wall?
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    Blocked flue

    I have a gas warm air/water heating system. Last week I got the gas man in to service it and he reported a blocked flue and disconnected the equipment. Despite me phoning to chase him I can't get him to return my calls to say what to do about it. I'm considering calling in a chimney sweep and...
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