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    paint garage door

    my metal garage door requires repainting. I painted it about 20 years ago and I have forgotten the type of paint that I used. The door will be painted in situ. Best paint is oil based?. Water based?. Polyurethane?. I intend lightly sanding the door, then undercoating it, the top coat would be...
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    Gas Care how does it work?

    Does an engineer keep the same registeration number? Can a company have a gas care registeration number and can unregistered fitters use it? Can an unregistered fitter have his work signed off by a registered one?. I am a retired heating eng. and I am puzzled by the jobsheets that the service...
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    Heating tank jelly

    Heating tank has a thick jellylike skin on top of water. The water is reasonably clear. I cleaned the tank last year because it was smelly. not smelly now just a thick skin on top. Thanks.
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    F and E tank.

    f and e tank has a jelly like skin on top of water. water is reasonably clear. tank and system was cleaned out one year ago for a similar problem. any ideas? thanks.
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    Glow-worm 12hxi problem.

    I had this boiler fitted 5yrs ago and ran it at 75c for the first 3 yrs and it seemed ok. I then upped it to its max temp. 2 yrs ago and then noticed what I thought was cavitation which started at 70c and disappeared when it reached 82c and modulating. I have the programmer set on hot water only...
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    blocked heat exchanger suspected.

    40 year old indirect cylinder coil recently ruptured and contaminated the heating system. 2 power flushes have cleaned pipework and rads but not the heat exchanger. Have used x800 twice and got lots of black magnetite out and some particles of rust, but boiler starts kettling as it approaches...
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    kettiing

    I recently changed my old indirect cylinder because it had a split heating coil. five years ago we had fitted a new glow worm 12hxi to our open vented system. the system is acting up kettling etc. after trying various additives and flushing i have come to the conclusion the problem is in the...
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