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Hi, I was wondering is it best to service an oil boiler in spring, summer, autumn or winter? I know heating engineers may be less busy in the warmer months as they are not being called out to as many emergencies. Also working on a boiler in an unheated garage may be more bearable when its...

Hi all. I want to get one of these but dont know which one to buy or where from. I will be using it mainly for balancing radiators and getting my flow and return pipe temp differential. May use it for other things too. Or should i be buying clamp on pipe thermometers? Or what else? I...

Hi. The flat roof on our single detached garage is coming to the end of its life and i am considering putting a proper sloped roof on it - i hate flat roofs and the extra height will be useful for storage. I would be using the exsisting height of the building on one side and building up...

Hi. I was thinking of replacing our drayton digistat +2 programmable room stat with the wireless version. I want to do this because the stat is in the same room as a wood stove and is playing havoc with the settings. I thought i could remove the digistat from the wall and fit the wireless...

Hi. We have a charnwood country 4 wood burning stove in the kitchen diner. It is the largest room in the house and the output of the stove was considered right by my calculations and those of the Hetas registered installer who put it in. Its an excellent stove but as i use very well...

Hi. A couple of my rads have seized bleed screws. The square heads seem to have been rounded off. To make things worse they are facing the wall so access is limited. I would like to be able to free them up so i can replace them. Any ideas without taking the rad off? Thanks stu.

Hi. During the recent cold weather i noticed a line of thawed snow from the detached garage where the boiler is to the house. This is obviously where the pipes run and as they were installed by the previous owner i dont know at what depth they are and what insulation they have if any. The run...

Hello, i'm new here. This is a great forum, i wish i found it sooner! We have had the above condensing combi oil boiler for nearly two years now - fitted in an unheated detached garage. During the recent cold weather the boiler was running most of the time day and night resulting in...