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I live in a house built in 1990 that has a class 2 chimney that vents via a ridge tile and ducting via the loft. In 2007 the gas fire was changed to a Baxi open flame but since that date the fire has only been used for maybe 2 hours per year after the initial enthusiasm, as the fire is more for...

I have removed a yellowing front panel from a Trojan Concert P shaped bath and found that only a silicon bead is holding the panel in place apart from a few clips attached to the underside of the lip of the bath. There is no beading along the bottom of the panel. There is a piece of wood...

I have a 3 year old Bosch washing machine that uses I-DOS to dispense liquid detergent and conditioner. In December it stopped dispensing conditioner despite me cleaning out the draw and twin pumps. Bosch service said the conditioner pump was weak and changed it. In January the conditioner...

In 2009 I posted this thread about my Worcester Bosch boiler, that was 9 months old and was increasing pressure with the filling loop disconnected. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/pressure-increasing-on-a-worcester-combi-boiler.166884/ Opinions ranged from internal holes, corrosion between...

So I have an Ideal Vogue boiler installed in 2022 by an Ideal accredited installer giving the boiler a 12 year warranty if serviced yearly by an accredited installer. I have noticed on the first 2 services that as part of BS 7593:2019, an annual on-site water test is required to check inhibitor...

Kitchen cupboards have been in place a good 10 years with the walls repainted with a mat emulsion a couple of times over the years. I am noticing what looks like a damp wall next to the cupboard but the wall is a stud internal wall with no pipes or radiators on either side of the wall. The...

I have the car booked in for the air conditioning to be regassed, as the car is no longer cooling but would this also affect the lack of demisting of the windscreen today in the rain? I was wondering if demisting is solely the function of the AC compressor so maybe that has failed?

We had a combi boiler that has now been replaced by a combi new boiler last year. Both have the same symptoms. The old boiler was set to 1 bar pressure. This new one sits at 1.5 when the CH water is cold. Both maintain pressure until I bleed a towel rail then the pressure drops. Both systems...

In July 2022 I had some popped double glazing changed. 15 months later the rubber seals on two of the 5 windows are starting to bulge. I keep pushing them back with a fingernail but it soon bulges again. How do I get them to stay in places and was it a faulty repair for the reason for the...

In June of 2022 I contacted my council about an outbuilding under construction that was only 26cm from my fence and approaching 3m high so requiring planning permission. The council did nothing despite photos being sent. I have now had a reply to my stage one complaint, which I want to appeal...

Looking at all the questions here the Hive seems to be a product of choice except it can’t modulate any boiler. Please correct me if I am wrong but its principle function is to switch the boiler on and off at defined times with preset temperatures that can be controlled via a smart phone but it...

I have changed the title to dismiss gas causing the problem. I can understand that if there is a weep on a sealed system then the boiler gauge pressure will eventually show a drop. On my combi the pressure gauge doesn’t move and stays constant until I bleed a towel rail. Then the pressure gauge...

With a combi we are told that there should be an ideal temperature drop across a radiator of 20C. On my system I can achieve 12C using the lockshields with my boiler set at 50C. This keeps the efficiency of my boiler sitting at around 96%, as the flow from the return is well below the...

Range rating a boiler means adjusting its output to more closely match the heat requirements of a property, while on the other hand boiler modulation also reduces the output of the boiler to match the heat requirement of the property, as it gets close to its desired temperature. Range rating...

Owner of a new Ideal Vogue. Central heating still turned off. I have noticed when drawing hot water that the pressure gauge jumps from 1.1 bar to just over 1.2 bar before slowly descending over a period of time. The boiler was set to 1 bar when fitted 3 weeks ago but has slowly crept up to...

My new combi boiler is set for a hot water flow rate of 42C to avoid paying for HW only to add cold. 42C is a good compromise. For years now I have suffered from a variable shower temperature with the HW set at 60C so I have decided to bite the bullet and change the shower mixer bar. Looking...

So if my new boiler can modulate for load compensation why can it be range rated as well? As the boiler has an CH output of between 4.6Kw to 26kW, if the boiler was range rated would the minimum output also drop to mantain the ratio? I have worked out that my rads have an output of around 12Kw.

My neighbour from the adjoining road informed me that they were going to erect a “shed” in their back garden by my fence. What is being built is not a shed but a brick built cavity filled building with services. It sits around 0.3m from my fence and is just over 2.8m tall. I asked the foreign...

So next door is getting a garden makeover which involves levelling their garden by removing earth. They now have a perfectly flat garden but on my side this is what I have. Job not finished yet but their back garden fence now offers them no privacy as one end only comes up to my shoulders...

I am thinking about my next boiler, which will be an Ideal Vogue 32c Max and maybe Opentherm via Halo and whether I should get the Opentherm option and would it save any money and possibly cause a leak in my pressurised piping that has issues? At the moment my dumb thermostat on a Worcester...