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Thanks for the quick response. The smell only happens when the basin is emptying. I haven't seen these waterless traps before. They look fairly cheap, so I will give it a go at the weekend. Colin.

I have the bathroom redone about four years age. As the house is a conversion the washhand basin and toilet are close together. The basin waste goes into the soil pipe almost imediately under the floor boards. This is the only practical arrangement due to the position of the main walls and...

This is a fairly old machine now, I don't know how old possibly 15 years. I have replaced a few bits & pieces of the years, the last being the discharge pump a few months ago. Now the machine seems to miss the rinse cycle, it simply continues on 'til the end, not spinning and stops full of...

Assuming you have system boiler and a hot water cylinder of some sorts, then the cylinder will loss heat over time and the falling temperatue will trigger the heating cycle to keep the hot water at a minimum temperature so you get hot water when you switch on the tap.

Thank you for the very quick reply. It is a Baxi 100HE Plus system boiler. I will try the hob test at the weekend and measure the gas pressure. But as the boiler is running ok at the moment, unless the gas pressure at the boiler is right at the bottom of the manufacturers range, then I...

I have been having serious problems with my boiler over the last three winters. It goes into Ignition Lockout and after weeks of poor service and umteen new parts it settles down and will run fine for most of the year. We decided that we could not face another winter like that so have been...

Sorry for the delay in replying, other things have been happening. Thank you for the quick response. The boiler seems to have settled down. I have been thinking about having it replaced because of the problems over the last three winters. Prices are coming in at about £2000 2500, which might...

I had this Boiler installed about 9 years ago. It has been one problem after another over the last three winters. This year the fan and gas valve have been replaced. I have noticed that every so often the boiler ignites with quite a bang, other times with a more gentle whoomph. Any ideas or I...