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I have a Worcester bocsh 35 CDI II. Last year the hot was cycling and after advice from here I replaced the secondary heat exchanger and all was well. Now it's doing it again. I have had the exchanger off again and connected a hose to it and run water through it. The water ran through well and...

I am changing some down lights for LEDs. Currently they are 12v halogens with individual transformers. I have 18w LED drivers and 8 4w LED lamps. Can I run 2 drivers in paralell to give 36w on the start of the cable run? Changing the wireing to have 2groups of 4 lamps will be a real pain in the...

Hi, The soil stack in our house was vented via a little hole drilled in a cap in one of the bedrooms :shock: when we redid the place I ran the stack into the loft so it could be vented through the roof and put a AAV on the end as a temporary measure. there is an existing vent pipe...

We have a small rad at the top of our stairs that is always first to heat up and hottest one. The house doesn't need a rad there but when I turned it fully off we got an intermittent banging from the central heating. Opening one of the valves very slightly stopped it and it hasn't returned...

Going to paint the fascias and replace the guttering around my house but they aren't wood and they aren't UPVC either. They have been painted in bright blue and so look awful. Would a regular exterior gloss on top of the existing paint after rubbing down be OK or can you recommend a system The...

Water is leaking down my chimney in heavy rain. I'm going to get a tower and roof ladder and have a look next week. The roof is standard UK tiles, very much like this The chimney is joined to next door(semi detached house) and comes through the roof just below the ridge. The flashing...

Hi, I've got a De Detrich DMP50 oven. It appears to work perfectly except the main oven doesn't get up to temperature. The oven seems to think it does, I set the temp on the display and it heats up and beeps when hot and holds a temperature but the temperature it holds is around 30 degrees...

Hi, Its a Worcester 35CDI MK2 combi, in our new house, installed about 5 years ago according to the paper work that was with it The hot water was cutting in and out and with help from here I took off the secondary plate heat exchanger and de-scaled. This seemed to fix the problem. We...

Worcester 35 CDI II, fitted about 2005, serviced about a year ago according to previous house owners. We have done a lot of work in our new house. We were moving a some rads. The boiler was switched off and drained down, gas was turned off and left for about 3 months. Today I refilled the...

I want to get a tester so I can do some tests to the circuits in my new house. I don't want to spend hundreds and I know I won't get the top kit. I just want to check the circuits are OK so I don't end up getting the circuits failed by an electrician on something stupid and have to pay for...

Im connecting a toilet to a soil pipe but the soil pipe needs to carry on to another toilet. I've got a branch to T off the soil and a pan connector to connect the toilet. Problem is it pushes the toilet too far away from the wall. Current plan is to cut a recess in the wall and put a flexible...

In order for my plan to work I need to get the soil pipe hard up against the wall. This in itself isn't a problem but I need some clips to secure it and the only ones I can find hold the pipe 1.5" off the wall. Anyone know of any that can do this? Thanks Adam

Hi, I'm redoing our house and moving the bathroom around and fitting an ensuite. There is currently a soil pipe running vertically up through one of the bedroom floors and through a wall to the bathroom. What I plan on doing is run that pipe along the wall and connecting to a toilet via a T...

The soil pipe for my bathroom just goes straight down to the ground floor and if you look down it I can see water, I'm guessing some sort of sewer trap? There is no venting on it at all. I was planning on using this where it comes up through the upstairs floor and needs to...

We're redoing our bathroom and kitchen. In the bathroom the soil pipe is in the next room which is an extension over a garage and goes straight down. The toilet was connected via a pipe through what was the outside wall before the extension and into one of these it has a cap on the...