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After some advice please. I had a new 3 port valve fitted in October 2023 after the previous one started playing up (not working for heating only) Last week the valve started to intermittently not come on when called for heating only (works fine if water is on too) Once water reaches temp and...

We had a new ball valve fitted to the cws in the loft (old one was making noises) Since then I have noticed I can hear a whooshing sound from The pipes when water has been used and it is filling. I believe this is normal? What I have noticed however is that the ball valve seems to...

I am sure this has already been answered but a quick trawl of the forum hasn’t found anything so hoping one of you lovely heating engineers can give me an explanation. So many posts say if you have a radiator that needs constantly bleeding and lots of ‘whooshing’ noise near the pump it is...

I have a strange issue going on with my f & e tank. I will try to give a detailed account: We had a constant drip into the tank at the beginning of jan and obviously we assumed we had a leak. a leak detection company was employed and they found a leak using trace gas under the kitchen...

can anyone help me work out why my hot water cylinder is making crackling noises? It only happens when hot water is on and only when hot water has reached temperature, not when I first turn it on. As soon as it turns off (on reaching temp) the noise stops As well as the strange cracking...

i recently had to check for a leak in my central heating system by marking the water level in the f & e tank with some tape and then holding ball cock up to see if water dropped. To cut a long story short, recently had to remove two radiators and then re fit them, during the refill the piece of...

we recently had some work done and have noticed the paint peeling around the radiator that was replaced. It's on an outside wall next to a bay window so there is some thought that it is coming from outside. The radiator is wall hanging and I cannot see any signs of damp around the skirting under...

After a bit of advice. We have had a salamander RSP100 pump supplying water to two showers for the past 7 years. In January we had to have the pump replaced with like for like as it was leaking. Over the last moth or so the pump has not always been kicking in when we turn the shower furthest...

Woke up this morning to find no hot water. Not the boiler this time (thank god) as Central heating working fine. Turns out the timer didn't automatically come on (no light) but pressing boost got the light back up. Strangely the central heating (light too) came on automatically as usual...

We had some work done on Friday which required the central heating to be drained down. The next morning our salamander rsp100 shower pump tripped the circuit so I replaced the fuse and no pw it is just humming instead of pumping. It sounds like the motor is struggling to kick in. My...

I need to fit an immersion timer but unfortunately the plug for the immersion is on a double socket which also used for the shower pump. Is there a plug in timer I can use instead?

We have beem having intermittent problems with our oil boiler for a few months now where it goes to lockout on start up n morning - doesn't even start to fire up but always starts on first reset. Engineer said as its first thing and not even firing its the capacitor/motor not working. This...

We have had a RSP100 pump installed nearly 4 years ago and has been working fine until the last month when we noticed a reduced flow in one of the showers and a pulsing coming from the pump when it was turned off. We have now had the valve on the shower replaced and a new NRV fitted to the...

The catch on our outside boiler is not very good and with the wind and rain today it blew open the door. I have been out all day and come home to it. I have got it to shut now but the rain water did get in and it was damp inside the boiler. Boiler is running now - should I be worried?

The radiators in my house today were getting very hot despite the thermostat on CH being low and therefore radiators should not have been on at all. This did not happen over the summer and only started happening today. The Hot Water was on at the time so I did a bit of investigating on here...

Woke up to a cold house this morning, the boiler had switched off. Managed to get it going by clicking the restart button (so the timeout light went off) but and really worried going to end up with no heating on Christmas Day. We had this happen a couple of years ago at exactly the same time...