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    Gas Meter Box woes

    Here's the tale - last year my energy supplier offered free smart meter installation which I took up, they set a date, turned up, but the first british gas engineer suggested that because the gas pipes went through the cavity wall and in the event of a gas leak gas could fill the wall cavity...
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    British Gas service ruined my boiler!

    caving into pressure My lady convinced me to take out that british gas homecare thingie for our boiler .... the boilers 'basic' but its never let us down really. the other week BG came round for the first anual service and inspection, the guy took the cover off, hoovered the unit out, checked...
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    microbore to standard ?

    As part of a bathroom redecoration, Ive gotten rid of the massive thick and rusty radiator we used to have in there ... our house uses Microbore (8mm) piping, if I got a modern designer radiator or towel radiator, are microbore thermostats to connect to the standard rad easy to get ? I know the...
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    Shower circuit and extractor fan kit ?

    Hi - We have installed an electric shower (or are about to), a 10K one.. and are due to get an electrician in to sort out our consumer unit so its able to provide a seperate supply (ring?) for the shower from a suitable MCB. I think we can sort out getting a suitable supply into the loft...
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    Microbore radiator moves.

    Hello all... Im decorating the front room (living room) and because the house was fitted with central heating some time after it was built, whoever installed it ended up running the 2 front room radiator sets of pipes down the internal walls.... they are covered with some nasty looking...
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    radiator to towel-rad on Microbore system

    My house is with a microbore system, my bathrooms standard radiator has a suspicious rusty patch along the beading at the bottom and while its not leaking yet Im expecting to discover a swimming pool of water has developed under it at any time ! we dont 'really' use or need the full heat of...
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    Central Heating problems...

    All of a suden I seem to have lost hot water from my hot water taps - water just runs cold no matter how long i leave the tap on for. the radiators in the house all work great - no probs. in my hot water cylinder - am I right in assuming that the main bottom thick pipe is cold water in and...
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