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thanks for your replies. The doors are pre finished in laminate.

The kitchen units/cupboards are in bright yellow and I would like to paint it over with a more natural colour like pine. What do I need to do? What steps should I take before tackling this? What ind of paint can I use, etc.? any advice greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance. :)

Prevention is better than cure! ;) Since using Mozilla Firefox instead of IE, I get very few spy/adwares. I am also very wary of installing dodgy software, e.g. Kazaa or any "free" software that installs spyware. Both Ad-aware and Spybot, for me, does the job well. :)

right I guess I can sleep soundly tonight knowing that the boiler switch is off (no idea what the water valves are??!) and won't flood my flat again! :)

a follow-up. An engineer was in earlier today and the flame is back on but it is still leaking. He said the problem is in the red thing (shown in the pic below) Which is where the water was coming out. Out of interest: is this it (whatever this red thing is called?) or is there...

many thanks for your replies! I got a plumber coming in to look at the boiler this afternoon but I am unsure on what you meant in your earlier posts (sorry I am in IT!) croydoncorgi: Re number of numbers of pipes -- I am guessing 5 as shown below? I live in a 2nd floor apartment and the...

agreed re this boiler being crap but I am moving out of this flat soon so not sure if it is worth replacing the boiler. Just want heating and hot water back soon! :) I will give a plumber a call and get a qoute. But why did the boiler flood in the first place? yesterday when I came to the...

thanks for your reply. What's to stop from the boiler flooding my kitchen again? is the replacement of heat exchanger something a simple job for a newbie (e.g. me!) or something for a qualified plumber?

came to the kitchen this morning to find that it was all flooded thanks to Bahama boiler. :evil: Pressure was way over 3 but after switching it off and turning on the sink tap, it went down to zero. No more flooding but now the boiler is not firing? Is it something to do with flow switch...

i see now -- cheers for the advice. I will give that a try... turn anti-clockwise right? :D

I am hearing impaired and buying a DVD with subtitles can be difficult -- some may clearly say "English subtiitles for Hearing Impaired", "English Subtitles", "Subtitles available" (English not available), etc. There is not one standard sign symbol for this facility. <sigh> There should be...

One of my sister's cats likes to climb up the curtains so she got hold of Oscar and splashed water on his face. Three or four times later, he stopped climbing up her expensive curtains. Just a thought....

.... or voltage-loaded system -- whoever touches your precious car will get a shock. someone tried it here in UK and went to court I think so not exactly a good plan, I guess!

if you have Win XP, they have a good feature where you can ask the OS to run a dos program to run under DOS, WIn 98, in 256 colour mode, etc.

It sure is a crap boiler compared to my parents' ever-effective 30+ year old "proper" boiler! :( As promised, I checked out the pics but can't see anything obvious -- can you help pinpoint where the handle is? To see larger versions, just click on the image. The boiler The silver pipe...

hi chris, i just had another look.... and i can't really see anything. :( I took a few digital photographs so will have a look tomorrow and if no success, I will upload the pics here. also, is it a bad thing to press the Reset button all the time to get hot water? Last week, I had to press...

ok, I have tried to repressurise the system (the silver pipe thing with a black flip switch) but nothing happened. The pressure arrow did not move at all and there was no noise or anything. any help or pointers would be great.

thanks mate for your quick response! When you say "leak" -- it is a leak of water? Sounds pretty serious! How would I be able to find where the leak is? As you can tell I am a newbie when it comes to boilers.... :oops:

There is a tool in PhotoShop called something like Blend or Clone (something similar should apply to PaintShop Pro too). It depends greatly on the quality of the paths around the photo (in the front) so it may or may not work out well.

I have got a Baxi Bahama 100 combi boiler -- not exactly a brilliant boiler (it was already there in the flat when I moved to the flat!). The pressure gauge is always 0 and according to the instructions it says that the "normal" pressure is 1-2.5 -- what should I do? Is this such a big...