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Well Joe90 - I would hate to see a house you've renovated, if you can do 30k of work for 3. We have spent a lot of time and money on the house, well over the 30k of damage , and we're in the process of selling it , so had no reason to pump a shed load of water in for a bit of new wall paper...

Tell you what Joe-90 , if you can strip 4 rooms of old plaster , remove ceilings , replace ceilings and then replaster all , wallpaper and fit a new kitchen for 3k , I'll split the difference with you , and that will pay your inflated insurance premiums for the next 20yrs . Snico - the 18k ...

Obviously I emptied about 300 gallons of water into my house just to get a new boiler. Its what you want when you go away for Christmas to come back to your house with water running out of your front door. So for the price of a replacement boiler I have completely wreaked half of my house ...

Anyone have any experience in home insurance claims , especially ones to do with burst pipes. We had a pipe burst in the loft , which then flooded our oil boiler and then the lounge / dining/ kitchen and hallway. Have had the drying company out and the insurance assessor . Ceilings in all...

Thanks , and here's me thinking Worcester are a good make !! :shock:

Had a bit of an incident a weeks ago , which involved a burst pipe flooding our boiler , literally. I am now face with having to replace the boiler , hoping to get some of the money via insurance. The problem is the old boiler , was very old , Redfyre pot , and I don't know whether to go for...

The pot is round , with a series of holes and an external fan that starts after about 40 seconds on the ignition sequence . The coil glows bright orange when out of the pot , and if wet after alot of smoke it will light , but generally the fan has kicked for about 15 seconds , so if the coil was...

Have an old Redfyre boiler which has a problem lighting when cold. It is a very simple boiler , about 30/40 years old , which has a gravity pump , which delivers a small amount of oil on startup , a heater coil then worms up , which has a metal wick that hangs in the pool of oil , once lite a...