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Yes, he gave me his bank account details and I paid by internet bank transfer. Thanks, that's an interesting idea. I would probably need to report it to the police first, but once I had then the bank might well reverse it...

Dear Mr Sheds – or may I call you ‘Ban-All’? Perhaps you need to reread my posts. I was speaking on the telephone to him – I was not present - which automatically limits my range of options. Perhaps you have lived a charmed life and have not encountered someone angry, not too bright, and...

I meant to start off by writing: Thanks for the replies and advice. Just to clarify.

1) There are at least two spurs each feeding two double sockets and wired with standard 2.5mm cable. One in the bedroom and one in the kitchen. I was told that, for example, in the bedroom were someone to use an electric heater and a hair dryer and perhaps another couple of things plugged in...

Hi Mike Thanks for your reply. If I ask for thicker cable and he charges me £30 extra for thicker cable but then he puts in standard cable then that is dishonest. Yes it is the earth wires he should have sleeved, I was told. I was told and my reading around on the web backs this up, that...

Had a traumatic experience this afternoon. I was at my partner’s house in Reading, preparing to drive over to Oxford to meet Paul the electrician at my house. He previously had said he would be free from 4.30 and I had said I might not be able to get there until 6. Anyway, he turned up at 4...

Thanks, yes I was wondering about Trading Standards, is it the sort of thing that they cover? Or I wondered whether there is a professional body that might take an interest...? It will cost me money to employ an electrician to test and rectify what he has done - and might require chasing...

Hi, I found him via ‘mybuilder.com’ so I assumed they checked his qualifications. The problem is his dishonesty and corner cutting. When I became suspicious of him (he is half way through the job) I asked another electrician in to check his work. He has run radials off rings. He has left...

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Hi Thanks for the description and advice in the 'how to' section. More photos and/or diagrams would be really helpful. eg Showing the wiring in the sockets before, during and after adding a spur or extending the ring.... It is not only useful for people wishing to do these sort of things...

Hi The hot water on my Vaillant VUW236 is not warm enough (even on full setting) so I am going to try to remove and clean the DHW/secondary heat exchanger. I have bought some replacement O rings and 3/4” fibre washers of dimensions recommended by Vaillant for this model. However when I first...

Have you tried emailing Vaillant? They posted me a manual for a Vaillant 236 for free - not quite as old as yours, but still fairly old.

Hi Sarah I had a similar problem – it lasted about 5 years, starting with monthly topups and gradually got to the point where it needed topping up once or twice a day. The problem was that the expansion vessel was not at the correct pressure. My plumber did not identify the problem – I found...

Thanks for the replies. I have tried fully undoing the nuts, and the clips, but that does not allow the Heat Exchanger to be moved perpendicular to the pipes. It needs to first be moved away from the pipes, to the left (as mentioned by Dan Robinson, there is a push fit). Because of faulty...

Thanks for your replies. My understanding (both from having loosened the nuts to see what happened, and from what the Vaillant manual says) is that the Heat Exchanger needs to be slid to the left , (ie towards the side of the case, looking at the photo), to remove it from the 4 pipes. So...

Hi My first post here, though have learnt a lot through reading other posts. I have a Vaillant Ecomax VUW236 - not sure how old but maybe 12-15years? Has been extremely reliable. The problem is that the hot water from the taps - and especially in the shower - is not as hot as it...