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My aunt lives in Bristol, and her Baxi 80e is broken down with flame failure light coming on. Does anyone know of any good, reliable heating engineers in her area, who are proficient at diagnosing and fixing faults. She has already had a hopeless parts-changer in to look at it. She doesn't...

I have already posted a couple of questions on here re. my DIY project to re-board and cover my link-detached flat garage roof. I have looked at various sites and videos re. EPDM application, and I am happy that it shouldn't be above my skills. The only info I can't find is how to deal with...

I need to replace the old felt flat roof and boards on my garage roof. It's a link-detached house, and the garage roof basically sits on joists that span the gap between our house and next door. The front and back edges of the roof aren't attached to any buildings, they just have wooden...

A mate who is a GSR plumber was recently lost his job, due to the fact that the heating co. he was working for went bust.He was worried how he was going to make ends meet, due to sprogs and big mortgage. All of a sudden, he is snowed under with work, and seems really busy. He tells me that...

What with one thing and another, I am toying with the idea of trying something different to plumbing. A friend who is a spark has floated the idea of doing solar (pv) installations, and asked if I would be interested in going into partnership. However, neither of us have any experience in the...

Until now I have either fitted Magnacleans or Spirovent Magnaboosters when a system filter is needed. I have stopped using Magnacleans because of quality problems, and recently I have seen suggestions that Magnaboosters don't catch much. I am considering changing to Boiler Buddy filters...

I'm interested to know what the attitude of plumbers/heating engineers is to solder ring fittings. My house was built 50 years ago, when I imagine that s/ring fittings were a relatively new thing. Apart from the odd compression, all solder joints are Yorkies. All the houses on this...

One for the oldies :wink: Which year approx. did copper pipe change from inches to mm? Would help me know, so that when I visit houses that look as if they were built around the changeover date, I know that there may be imperial pipework present. Thanks.

Whenever I get down to the second half of a tub of Boss White, it has started to go hard, and too thick to be used. Ends up getting binned. Can I add anything to make it soft again? Does this only happen to me? Am I just being a tight-wad?

Here's mine. Not long been in the game, when I was replacing some rads at a nice house for a very posh lady. One of the 2 metre long double rads in the lounge was being replaced due to rust around the valve tail holes and bleed screw. Anyhow, because the area around the bleed screw was so...

Recently, a customer asked me to install an unvented hw cylinder. I couldn't, because I don't have the necessary ticket. I really struggled to find someone with the G3 cert, to give the work to. Even asking plumbers that I knew who have been in the industry for decades drew blanks. That got...

I've never taken a Fortic to the scrap merchants before. If I take off the ball-valve, drain cock, immersion element and large plug on the side, will they accept the tank as copper? Or are there more non-copper parts inside that need to be removed before?

First thing to point out, I'm not Gassafe. I was working at a customer's house today, routing a new cable through the ceiling above their Concord WRS heat-only boiler, whilst standing on a ladder. Happened to notice that the casing/cover wasn't fitting closely on the top, on the left side. I...

I tend to do lots of small jobs with silicone, and the silicone is always drying up in the nozzle attached to the tube in between each use. Some nozzles have screw on caps, but these sometimes don't seal or get lost. Others don't even have caps, so I end up trying to fix a bit of carrier bag...

Hi to all, I am new to this site. I have been offered a new plumbing job. The boss knows I don't have Part P, and says he will pay for me to take the course. One thing I haven't mentioned to him is I am slightly colour blind. I seem to remember someone saying that they test your colour...