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Hi I realise this thread is 9 years old, but my old boiler has been kettling for longer than that. It's an Ideal E-Type 35KW. I've had this system for 20 years and from the day I inherited it, it was wonky. The rads never got really hot. I messed about with it for about 10 years, becoming a bit...

I have an old house which needs a decent electrical system and a modern consumer unit. I'm not a spark, but I have done lots of rewires over the years and I even have an old Which? book about electrical rewiring. Despite dire warnings from all directions, I intend to go ahead with this. Mains...

Hi, I have a window in an old house which is timber-framed and with no lintel. It's single glazed and the wood is bad anyway. I want to fit a smaller window and, as luck would have it, I've been donated a upvc window frame with 2 double-glazed windows. Nice. The new frame is about 2 inches...

HI, I have a 30 yr-old Ideal E Type RS (35N ) Balanced-flue boiler. The main burner is not lighting. There is power down to the gas-valve ( this goes to a solenoid, I believe, although it would be a 240V solenoid, whereas I have heard tell of 24V ones? ) The gas-valve 'knob' is grey. ( I...

HI, I have a 30 yr-old Ideal E Type RS (35N ) Balanced-flue boiler. The main burner is not lighting. There is power down to the gas-valve ( this goes to a solenoid, I believe, although it would be a 240V solenoid, whereas I have heard tell of 24V ones? ) The gas-valve 'knob' is grey. ( I...

Hi, I have an obsolete 8mm microbore CH system with pipework badly full of that hard black stuff. Several rads have never got hot for years. The house has a soild floor so that means that the pipework is buried in the walls and plumbers say the only solution is replacing the pipes , ha bloody...