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My Grandson (21) has just passed all his Gas Safe elements; ccn1, boilers, water heaters, cookers, fires, energy efficency and unvented. He's been working down in Sussex until recently but now with us in Chelmsford Essex for good. All his working past has been with heating installers and, like...

I'm about to change my system over from an open heating system with F&E tank to a sealed system using a condensing combi boiler. After flushing out all the rads i guess some Fernox will do the trick for the heating system. But i'm wondering if, without buying a water softener that i can find a...

I've decided to take out my Vaillant ecotec 418 on a conventional system and change it for a combi with a pretty good hot water flow rate. I am considering the Vaillant 831He because it has a HW flow rate of 12.4 L/m. I'm not sure if that's good but it's 25% better than the lower rated models...

I have a Vaillant Eco Tec Plus 418 condensing boiler at the minute installed in a upstairs bedroom cupboard. It's serving a conventional open system with a skinny 1050 x 400 indirect cylinder in an adjascent cupboard. That's as big a cylinder as i can get in there. I'm sick of low hot water...

Hi, i'm new to this forum but a long time retired gas installer. I am trying to find a place for my 21 year old Grandson to do the CCN1 core and domestic appliance Gas Safe assesments and exams. Preferably a fairly intensive course as he has done most of the work in college after finishing his...

Hi, my wife likes the 'corian' worktop which obviously looks great, comes in countless colours which penetrate it's depth and can be moulded and prefabricated into just about any shape. Problem is it's price. I have fitted all my kitchen base units and now ready for the tops but, to have...

I've just returned from living in the south of Spain where all the circuits in the consumer units are protected by one isolator and one RCD. I think this is because all of the supplies are overhead and the supplier doesn't supply a earth. Each supply goes to a metal pylon or similar on your...