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hello - i'm going slightly bonkers with our house and keep seeing cracks everywhere. it's a 1950s build semi detached. we've been in it 3 years and I'm not sure whether they're getting worse or not but I keep seeing what I think are new ones. there are no cracks whatsoever on the external...

Thanks for your reply. No, the heating temp goes up and down as normal. Everything seems completely as normal, just the damned thing won't come on. At least we've got hot water when it works as normal. The controller is third party - Salus. Just tried turning it on again, upped the...

Hello, wondered if anyone has any experience or tips. Boiler working fine for 18 months until 2 days ago (quite chilly here atm!), it will now happily produce hot water but the heating will just not turn on. The boiler seems to think it's producing heat, but is not firing, it thinks its in...

yep, the work was all new and originally done about 6 months ago. i called him back out last week as there was a massive water leak in the plumbing and a gas leak behind the cooker. new boiler and cooker and pipework to an extension. the cooker joint just needed tightening, the plumbing hadn't...

Thank you for your advice, exactly what I thought. To be honest, I trust the guy so little, I'd rather pay for someone else to come and fix it and report him to gas safe. I don't want him doing anything else in the house - I wouldn't trust any repair he did. What worries me more is the rest...

It is under a screed floor (the copper pipes are lagged in something). He had to dig the floor up to get to the water leak in the first place hence putting a chisel through the gas pipe. You have confirmed my gut feeling (I have not heating knowledge) but it makes me angry that he is...

Yes, he's registered with Gas Safe I checked before taking him on. Just seems dodgy to me and wanted to check. I'm going to get someone else in to look at the repair as I don't trust the work at all now. There is also a small leak on some of the soldered joints he did (I did a soapy water test)...

Hello, just after some advice really. We had a leak in the central heating system and during the repair, the gas engineer put a chisel through the gas pipe leading to the boiler. He has repaired this with a big blob of solder. Is this a suitable repair? Just looks really messy to me (was a big...