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    My resolved problems with central heating and hot water

    I have a y plan open vent system as below And I had the following symptoms initially for a period of months which gradually got worse 1) The central heating would occasionally not work 2) Banging on the valve would often cause it to start working, accompanied by some gurgling sounds 3) When...
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    Honeywell v4073a1039 motorised 3 port valve: should moving lever to manual allow flow?

    I have a Honeywell v4073a1039 3 port valve in my heating system and now the hot water and the central heating work intermittently, though banging the valve with my hand seems to bring it back to life, sometimes briefly sometimes until it switches off whereupon on starting again many hours later...
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    To cut the stair or not?

    Hello, I am laying engineered floor boards on my concrete hall floor and I have a dilemma. I am intending to lay the boards and the cork expansion pieces right up against the walls and other features of the hall as suggested on this forum and elsewhere for the best job possible. I have...
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    Basic adhesive technique and maintaining level tiles

    I am having a go at my first major tiling project and I seem to be having a few problems with basic technique of applying the adhesive and trying to maintain level tiles. I am tiling a kitchen concrete floor which is reasonably flat, it has a couple of high spots of about 2mm over a distance...
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    Levelling a slighty undulating wooden floor for tiling

    I would like to lay ceramic tiles in an area of about 2mx2m of my bathroom. The bathroom is on the first floor as usual and has floorboards, some of which creak slightly. The floor is currently covered in horrible cork tiling and undulates by about 5mm from the measurements I have made with a 1m...
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    How do you track down a leak in underfloor radiator piping?

    I was hoping someone might be able to assist me with some hints and tips on tracking down a leak in the pipe work of my ground floor central heating. My ground floor is the following with the leak highlighted as "water" I would like to know if there is some sort of procedure to help me...
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