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Hi, I have a Worcester Bosch 40cdi conventional boiler. Controlled via Hive. During the recent big freeze the boiler has been working fine with both heating and hot water working fine. Now that the big thaw is occurring I find that my boiler won't fire for heating! The boilers core...

Hi, My front to has been acting up for a while and is progressively worsening. The door is a composite door (not sure how old) which has a 5 point locking latch. Essentially the door has got to a point where it takes a lot of force in a jerking motion to get the handle to go up far enough to...

Greetings! I have a Worcester Bosch 40 Cdi Conventional boiler. Recently it started leaking. The plumbing engineer that visited diagnosed a damaged sump, with the water escaping from a hole/crack in the sump as opposed to moving along its normal channel. The engineer went off to investigate...

Hi, I have a Hikvision DVR wired to 8 cameras. One of the cameras is a PTZ. With out any reason or warning, the feed from the PTZ has gone "grey". The DVR is recognising a video signal from the PTZ, but the video is just a blank grey image. The DVR seems to be moaning about a video...

Hi, I have a Worcester Bosch boiler that supplies central heating, and water heating to a cylinder. The boiler is serviced by a British Gas UP2 programmer and a WR1 receiver that links to a wireless thermostat elsewhere in the house. The set up is shown in the below picture... I am hoping...

Hi, I have a Worcester Greenstar gas boiler and I recently removed some radiators to decorate. I now need to add the radiators back into the system and refill them and try to get the bolier pressure back to the correct level. Having looked online I was expecting to see the refilling point for...

Hi, Possibly a dumb question... One of my radiators has a "t" piece at one end. This "t" piece connects the pipe that comes up from the underneath the floor to the radiator and the TRV. However where the pipe from under the floor enters this "t" piece it weeps a little. It is only a little...

Hi, I am thinking of installing some chrome light switches and sockets. Light Switches: Looking at the existing wiring, the light switches (faceplates) are currently plastic and have metal back boxes set into the wall. The metal back boxes have earth wires connected to them. So is it just a...

Hello, My other half would like to remodel our staircase and paint the dark wooden hand rails and newel caps with a grey gloss paint. I have been trying to puzzle out the best way to paint the wood and get a good finish. My current thoughts are.. 1) Give it a light sanding 2) Paint it with...

Hi, I have an internal wall that seems to have been damp at some point in the past and is currently a mix of flaky paint, blown crumbly bricks and soft lime mortar. The wall was once hidden by an under stairs cupboard. I want to tidy the wall up and was thinking of painting it with masonry...

Hello, I am after some pointers about what to do with a seemingly damp wall. The core of my house is a cottage dating from the 1850s and the walls are brick built walls that seem to have a slate DPC. Most of these old cottage walls are now interior walls, as previous owners of the house had...

Hi All, I would appreciate your thoughts, comments and advice on the below situation. I moved into a new house a year ago. The house has a few gas appliances: A Worcester Greenstar Conventional 40CDI boiler that supplies 11 to 15 radiators, and hot water. Although hot water is to a cylinder...

Hello, Back in August I purchased a HIkvision 8 Channel Turbo HD 3.0 DVR (DS-7208HUHI-F1/N) from CCTV Direct Online. I have the DVR installed with eight cameras, each camera has its own power supply. Today channels 5, 6, 7 & 8 of the DVR do not seem to be functional. Channels 5, 6 & 7 show no...

Hi, A few months back I moved into a house with a water softener. The system seems to be a Autrol 255 440i. Since moving in I have been topping the system up on a weekly basis with salt, and all seems to have been fine. Yesterday how the system was overflowing water and the level within the...

Hi guys, I am about to buy a new DVR and before I part with cash, I was wondering if anyone has used cctvdirectonline.co.uk before? If so what are your thoughts? Good, bad, other.. Thanks TF

Hi All, My house is fitted with an old budget Swann CCTV system that is connected to 2x 4 channel DVRs. The cameras are all low quality and not HD, and once of the DVRs now has a fried HDD. So I am looking to replace the 2 x DVRs with a new 8 channel DVR and I am looking to replace the...

Hi all, My has house concrete slab paving that runs right up to the wall of the house. Sadly however, the paving no longer falls away from the house and water pools against the bricks in places (and in some parts of the house the walls seem damp). As a temporary fix to get me through the...

Hi, I have a house that dates from the 1850s and I have started to remove a stud wall from the hallway to give the area more light and space. Part of the stud wall that I have removed was recent timber and plasterboard. The rest seems to be lathes and plaster and may be the original dating from...

Hi all, I have an odd problem with my boiler that I am not sure how to resolve. I have a Worcester Bosch boiler, a CDI 40 Conventional. The boiler provides central heating (control by a thermostat in the house) and hot water. Both are also controlled by a timer system. The house has two hot...

Hi, This is hopefully a simple question for someone in the know! My house has a solar water heating system and in the loft the system has a short pipe that goes into a large blue container (see pictures). The blue container is half full with a clear liquid (presumably water?). My questions...