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Hi there, We have recently had a nest put in to replace the our old room stat and timer setup. The old setup was a Honeywell dial stat. With a dial timer on the boiler. The only cable coming out of the boiler apart from power was T&E connected to the 24V switching section (not the 240V section...

Hi there, we had the floor up earlier in the year to have some electrics done and discovered that at some point in the past a when central heating was installed the floorboards had been replaced with MDF/Chipboard. (See pic) The trouble we have is once back down the areas where the board is...

Hi there having been reading up on my regs i have realised that we may have a small issue with the towel rail in our Bathroom. The rail itself is located in Zone 2 in the bathroom with an ipx4 heated element. This is connected with flex to a flex outlet plate which joins it with 2.5TE which...

Hi there, having pulled up the floorboards in an upstairs bedroom i have found that there are two spurs coming from between 2 sockets on our ring main. One serving the hall downstairs and another an additional socket in the room. I know that you can't take a spur off a spur from a...

Hi there, I have a Baxi 80HE which is working fine in terms of the Hot Water and CH both working. However when the hot water is running there are a fair number of gurgles coming from within the boiler itself. It purrs like a kitten when the heating is on. Have tried to make a video of the...

Hi there, i need to drain down my baxi 80HE to replace the AVV. I've drained radiators before using a hose pipe but the connection on this drain is tiny! Can anyone suggest what size rubber tube/hose i can get to fit on the end? As it's relatively close to other pipe work and the PCB so...

Hi there, I need to change the AAV on my Baxi 80HE as it got corroded and likely not venting any air. We have some air noise when the hot water is running (but not the CH) We had a bum Expansion vessel which has likely caused the leaking of the AAV Can i just check the procedure is as...

Hi there, We have a Baxi 80e (with instant hot water) in our loft. On occasion i go up there and notice that the pressure has gone down to almost 0. Much less than 0.5 that is its minimum operation specs. We had the expansion vessel replaced about 2 years ago when we were having pressure...

Hi there, Having looked over the CU in our house i have a quick question about a Radial circuit powering some sockets in our kitchen. There is a 32amp MCB powering the circuit in the CU. The circuit is wired with a 4mm cable up until a junction box in the kitchen. Which then splits off...

Hi there, In our new house we have a blanked inset fire. Having looked inside i've discovered that there was probably a back boiler in there at some point. As there are decommissioned (sawn off) pipes. The missus has always wanted a log burner (or multi fuel) so we've been looking at...

Hi there, I've recently bought a property where the rear gage is pretty severely sagging and which we need to remedy. If you look at the bottom bolt you can see how much it has sagged. I've moved the top bolt so that we can keep it locked for now. We have checked that the sag isn't...

Hi there, I'm just about to call a spark in to get an extractor fan fitted into our bathroom, since we had a new electric shower fitted opening a window simply doesn't work and we're starting to get mildew in areas of the ceiling. I'm looking at getting a 230V Icon 30 with Humidistat...

Hi there, we've moved to a new house which has a Baxi 80e fitted in the loft. Its the "instant hot water" version so it tends to come on every 15-20 mins to reheat the small instant tank. Recently its started to make what i would describe as "gurgling" noises when the preheat comes on (or its...

We have recently moved into a mid 70's build terrace house and have a question about a vent we have in wall of the lounge. We have a plastic vent on the wall about a foot off the floor that has pretty much been painted over by the previous owners (it measures 270x170mm) I've taken the vent off...

Hi there, I'm looking to replace our room thermostat (a honeywell cm67) with a new wireless thermostat, as the current one was installed by previous owners with extremely ugly trunking which we'd like to remove. I'm looking to either get a Honeywell 927 or a Siemens rev24rf as they seem to...

Hi there, We've recently bought a house which has a "Triton T200RE" fitting in the upstairs bathroom. Its absolutely feeble when it comes to a warm shower. I've done some basic flow tests and have come up with: When shower it set to full cold Filling 2L bowl ~ 20 seconds. When shower...

Hi there, I've just moved into my new house but there is one thing that is bugging me about the front door. Its currently open-able from the outside if unlocked and i'd like to change it to a set up where a key is needed for outside access (this is what my family is used to) I understand...

Hi there, In the last few days we've been having some issues with our Baxi 80e. That being that the flame is going out (and its flashing the 30C light) The letting agents plumber came out who showed me how to reset the boiler. We did this yesterday and it ran all day no problem. However...

Hi there, We have a small issue with our kitchen tap in the fact that the cold water lever no longer turns the water on. It would appear that the part of the tap head that grips the spindle has ground down, as if we swap the tap heads around it works fine. This is a picture of the tap...

Hi there, I'm trying to undertake bleeding a radiator in my new place as its bubbling and not very hot at the top. However there seems to be a problem. I can't find the bleed valve! All the radiators in the house are the same it seems and they all have bleed valves in the same place...