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Hi heating experts! The house is occasionally cold in the mornings and on investigation it looks like my central heating controller seems to not always be turning the pump on reliably when in 'TIMED' mode. (Boiler is a Viessman Vitodens 100 and the pump is a Wilo variable speed pump all...

I have a storm drain at the bottom of the garden path which collects a large amount of rainwater and directs it into an adjacent stream. Unfortunately since it's only a 6x6" grate it covers over with leaves frequently during the autumn and all the storm water then floods my shed. It's all set...

Hello, I've got a Hoover frost-free fridge freezer, just over a year old, model HVBF5182WK. The drain hole in the bottom of the freezer is frozen/blocked and as a result the drain water is now forming ice under the bottom drawer. It's not a big problem and it should be an easy fix to...

Six months ago I had downlighter units professionally installed in two rooms and everything has been working fine up until a month ago when about half the time turning on the downlighters in one particular room they would flicker and sometimes fail to start. It took 2-3 flicks of the switch to...

Hello, I have a question which hopefully you guys will have a logical answer to! I moved into the house six months ago. The oil-fired, vented central heating system is about twenty years old and I plan to potentially replace it with gas this summer, but it's working fine for the time...

Hello oil experts, I've just moved into a house with a wallstar boiler which locks out once the central heating system gets up to temperature. It's always had annual services and its last one was two months ago. The entire burner unit was replaced about a year ago. The engineer today can't...

Hi folks, I've had a read through the forum and the answer to my question seems to be "yes", but I thought I'd ask to be sure. The RCD in my house tripped repeatedly today (4-5 times per session) when the neighbour was sanding his floors using some kind of power tool. Is it possible that...

Guys, I had a HeatTeam engineer round to recharge my expansion vessel last week. Yes it's a DIY job but it's covered under my plan so it's better the expert does it than I make a mess of it. He discharged the pressure in the system using the red PRV, which I've read on here many times is a...

Hi guys, This topic must have been discussed a lot but I can't find anything specifically answering my question, so hopefully you boys can help me out. I've just moved into a house which has a brand new (one month old) oil fired combi boiler with a built-in expansion vessel, connected to a...

Hi experts, I have an odd problem with my shower tiling. I had my bathrooms tiled four months ago. A couple of inches of grout started to discolour so I removed it but to my surprise it came out easily, like putty. The grout immediately above and below is rock solid, it's literally only...

Guys, My boiler got serviced this morning and is apparently in perfect working order, but I'm wondering if it's suffering from intermittent exposive ignition. I shared the symptoms with the Gas Safe engineer who carried out the service but he didn't seem to think there was anything serious...

Guys, I have a Powermax boiler which contains a heat store, as you'll be familiar with. The problem is that the radiators get warm whenever the boiler is on, even of the central heating is off. I figured this was a dodgy valve so got HeatTeam in to fix it but upon arrival the guy said...

Guys, I have an 18V DeWalt hammer drill and need to drill a few 7mm holes into the concrete wall between my flat and the next. I know I need an SDS but I can't afford to buy one for this one project. Is it going to be possible to drill with the DeWalt or should I get a man in? Any tips on...

Hi Powermax experts, As discussed in another post, the exhaust flue of my powermax is lagged all the way through the ceiling void, 5m long. While investigating the installation of inspection hatches to meet "flue in void" legislation, I discovered that to fully inspect the flue, any engineer...

Hi experts, What happens if a dishwasher is fitted into a waste pipe with nowhere for air to get in? My plumber removed a sink but left the dishwasher draining into the sink waste, which looks something like this...

Hello experts, I have two flues in the ceiling void of my flat. One is the intake and one the exhaust. One of the brackets holding the air intake to the concrete above the ceiling void has fallen off resulting in the intake flue resting on the plasterboard for a couple of feet before going...

Hi guys, Sorry if this has already been discussed - I searched for ages and couldn't find anything on it. I'm having two bathrooms re-tiled. The plumber re-fitted the toilet using the existing water and waste pipes, but instead of bolting it to the floor has simply glued the cistern to the...