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First time for me but I have an old toilet (25 years) which need a syphon replacement. It all looked standard from the bottom with the usual 2 screws either side of the 2 inch exit hole with donut etc but when I tried to undo the butterfly nuts, the bolt was so rusted it snapped on one side and...

I have a standard 2x2x2m bathroom where the roof overhangs and results in the wall facing side sloping downwards. This, combined with a chimmney, means the only spot i have on the outside wall is at the opposite end to the shower and at 1.5m height. Given that most of my mold/moisture is...

Hi, I have a setup with a boiler in the garage and a honeywell T4360 frost stat just above it. I need to add a pipestat to avoid the heating being on all night in the winter so i bought a matching honeywell L641B pipestat. my frost stat has 2 red wires attached (as per picture). My pipestat...

I have a traditional gravity fed central heating system with boiler in garage and the usual programmable timer in the utility room plus a simple room thermostat in the hall way. The timer has the standard 2 'heating on off' settings for morning and evening use. Now - given the freezing cold...

I've just moved into a 1930's detached house where the ground floor is wooden (really old planks) and about 18 inches above ground. Basically the whole downstairs is freezing and doesn't really warmup. Also my survey stated that the joists had some sort of infestation and the whole lot had to be...

I've just moved into a 1930's detached house where the ground floor is wooden (really old planks) and about 18 inches above ground. Basically the whole downstairs is freezing and doesn't really warmup. Also my survey stated that the joists had some sort of infestation and the whole lot had to be...

I am looking to get a few quotes for a new combi boiler (worcester 30cdi probably) and wanted to get my facts straight to ensure i don't get fed incorrect information. I want the new boiler to be installed on a external wall in my attached garage with a vertical flue as there is nothing above...

I'm about to get some quotes for a garage conversion and wanted some advice so i can ask the right questions when the builders come round. I have a new 4 bed detached house (<10 years) with a double garage. The garage has 2 single doors and a breeze block dividing wall in the middle so its...

I am really frustrated with my room stat. I have a Worcester 30CDi boiler with a honeywell CM67NG wireless room stat. Everything works fine other than i recently noticed that the boiler was coming on at odd hours of the day and night - outside the times set on the timer. I looked around on this...

Hi, I've just moved into a 1930's detached house where the ground floor is wooden (old planks) and about 18 inches above ground. Basically the whole downstairs is freezing and doesn't really warmup so I am looking to rip out old the floorboards and put in new ones and then carpet. I have done...

Hi, I moved into a new house 3 months ago and am stunned at my first gas bill (over £400 using 18000 kwh) and have concluded it must be my boiler. The property is 3 bed detached (1930's) and has conventional system with a Halstead Best50 boiler. What annoys me even more is that the house...

Hi, I have a CH problem thats been mentioned a few times before i.e upstairs rads OK-ish, downstairs cold. My setup is old backboiler with cylinder and pump/3port valve upstairs. Pretty much all the pipes around the pump and cylinder get very hot very quickly and the upstairs rads heat up in...

Hi, I've just moved into a new house and it has a regular CH system with Danfoss CP15 timer unit and Halstead Best 50 boiler. The system seems to works fine but when both the CH and HW are switched on (manually or via timer) then you can hear quite loud 'clicks', every second or so and the red...

Hi, I have a 7 year old system (new house) with a potterton boiler in the garage and a frost stat. Recently (since weather got colder) I have noticed that the CH radiators all come on for much of the time and they get really hot. The timer is switched off and the room thermostat set really low...

Hi, I have a very old central heating/hot water system (at least 20 years?). Its pretty strange in that the boiler is actually installed behind a gas heater in the kitchen chimney... very strange but it seems to work. Anyway recently the hot water stopped working but central heating was ok -...