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Thanks Harry. I'm fairly certain the frost stat dates back to the original boiler from when the house was built so I suspect it was just left in circuit when the boiler was replaced. I suppose it could be argued that its belt and braces if the boiler's internal frost protection was to fail...

Woke up the other morning to find the house really really hot - much hotter than the room stat would have allowed. Ours is an old Y plan configuration on a condensing boiler. I made sure both H/W tank and room stats had actually clicked off as I would have expected given how hot everything...

Thanks all. When I've had a further look around, they seem to crop up on sites relating to fibre optic cable outer sheaths and I can see why it would would work well on plastic that tough. Equally @fourtytwo I can see why it would be unsuitable for alarm or telephony cable as the spring is...

I was clearing out a late colleagues collection of electrical/electronic tools when I came across something odd looking, which through a google image search, the mystery item has turned out to be a Miller MK02 cable sheath cutter. It looks like it might be quite a handy bit of kit , as...

See https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/grrrrrrr-another-e15-leak-on-our-siemens-dishwasher.645898/ for the outcome.

Got the thing removed and stripped down. I was hoping it was just the main O ring seal that had gone as I knew I could source an equivalent for a couple of quid once I got the size of it. However, it became clear that it is in fact the red seal around the valve spindle that has been leaking...

Thanks - the fit might be, but getting the dishwasher out is a PITA. Thankfully I'm well practised now :giggle:

@beard79 did you ever find the cause? Got a leak in the identical position on our Siemens which has the same internals and that isn't the main sump either. Thanks.

We have a Siemens SN65M030GB/16 dishwasher and I must have had the damn thing apart half a dozen times to fix various leaks and other faults over the years. The same guts are in several other dishwashers of that era (Bosch etc). This time, I can see through the inspection panel that it seems to...

That sounded painful :sick:

Both are possible. Though in the case of an electric shower, whoever fitted it *ought* to have sealed around the mains water pipe - so any leak anywhere in the body of the electric shower would run out the bottom of the casing and down the shower wall, rather than running down the pipe and into...

Who is the management company for the flats? It might be something you can drop in their lap to investigate and sort out. Also, if your stop tap to your flat was siezed, it's possible the others are in a similar state and might need fixing.

@MikeToll If your cold water tank and C/H header (aka F&E) are at the same level, and the latter is smaller which is what you're telling us (see left hand side of diag below), a pin hole in the coil would result in the water level in the C/H header being raised to the point it overflows. I'm...

@mcmoby69 Certainly an interesting possibility and I agree, it shouldn't be ruled out. Our cold water tank and C/H header tank are sat alongside each other on the same timber platform in the loft - so a hole in the H/W cylinder coil would mean the greater/higher body of water in the cold water...

@MikeToll The only other personal experience I have that springs to mind is this one: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/c-h-pipe-crusty-and-leaking.522670/ Two lessons I learnt from this: 1. The only clue to the problem was a couple of tiny stains no bigger than a 10p bit along a...

@gizmo1990 Correct - that union also has a washer but it's a fibre one - the exact same size/type as you find on individual hot/cold basin tap unions so very widely used and available. I would always replace that washer as one that has been in place for years can sometimes pull apart when the...

Looks to me like the Flomaster ones Screwfix flog *might* be able to be taken apart. i.e. that looks like a nut in the photo below rather than being cast as part of the body. The reason they are usually removable is the white thing in your original photo is a cone of plastic that reduces the...

When it comes to long drills for going through walls, smaller pilot hole is relative. The smallest diameter I have in my selection of long drills is still 10mm and that does cause a bit of spalling if I'm forced to drill right through from the inside. I'm with @Madrab on his method for trying...

You mention water down a cavity, and you also mention you have an outside tap. Did you protect your outside tap from frost over winter? If it has frozen up, it could have split the pipe within the wall. That being said, 0.5L/hour seems too low for a pipe split at mains pressure. Any other part...

Just a little warning. When I was looking into trying to sort my problem out myself (which of course would have been futile given what had actually happened), I was looking at rodding kits - but there are some cheap and sh*tty ones that might well add to the sh*t already there. Take the set...