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Recently moved into a house (typical 1950's semi) and the floor boards across the landing seemed to be sloping inwards. After lifting a few floor boards I can see that when the heating system was put in they have run the pipes right down the centre line of two floor boards meaning that the...

[/url] Brilliant suggestion, I had overlooked the possibility of the inserts being knackered on the brackets :D

Unfortunately this is a sign of the times. I'm actually a Building Services Design Engineer myself, however I'm not qualified to physically install much. However someone who has down a 3 week City and Guilds plumbing course is allowed to run havok? The whole system needs a rethink IMHO As...

In a nut shell yes, that's all he did. He could have at least checked it could he not?

It shouldn't be too much of an issue. In the rear of the boilers servicing manual (look on their website if you haven't got it) it has all of the boilers spare parts etc with a gas council number or order code where applicable. I would just ring up your local merchant with that info.

He basically just hoovered the combustion chamber out! What is interesting is that the flame detection electrode sits right next to the combustion chamber in the manual. Presumably if this got slightly knocked it may not detect the flame accurately? I've tried to get him back, but he has no...

Thanks for the reply. The boiler has one of those remote programmable thermostats. I re-programmed it the day I moved in to suit our heating times etc and physically stood by the boiler to watch it switch on and off, to check the signal was being received correctly - so I know for a fact that...

Hi All, I have recently moved into a house that had a combi boiler fitted approximately 6/7 years ago. Rather unfortunately, the combi boiler is a Biasi Riva Compact (M96.28SM/C2), which I know have a bit of a reputation for being “bottom of the barrel”. There are a few things...