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Evening all We have a holiday place in Spain. It was empty for about 10 years when we bought it. The oven is a built in oven with a separate hob made by a company called Teka and is pretty much brand new (the previous owners bought the place, did a few bits and just never used it). So, you...

Just had our boiler replaced. 20+ year old Glowworm which was starting to show signs that it would probably fail. It was one with a separate water tank and our hot water was woeful in terms of pressure. Replaced with a Glowworm combi and wow! Hot water at mains pressure in an instant. I...

I replaced my central heating pump with some cheap thing off Amazon and I suspect it's a pile of rubbish as from installation it's been like a jet taking off in the airing cupboard and now the boiler just keeps locking/overheating and I have to press the button to reset it. I've tried bleeding...

Just changed the pump on our central heating. What a difference! It was taking 2 to 3 hours for the radiator in the lounge to warm up and the boiler was making lots of clanging and banging noises. 10 minutes after I powered everything up, the radiator in the lounge was warm. 30 minutes later...

Hi Yep, a thing. I've searched online but I'm not sure what term I need to use to search. I need to shut the two isolation valves off to change the pump. It's in an awkward location so getting to it with an adjustable spanner or mole grips runs the risk of messing the square head up. Can...

Evening all We have a Gloworm Fuel Saver F boiler which has been well looked after and is pretty efficient albeit getting a bit old. Recently it's started making a weird noise. It sounds like a plane flying over. Not loud, but at the end of its firing, it starts quite high pitched and get...

My other half has just bought a small kiln for doing ceramics and the like. The kiln is specifically aimed at the hobby end of the market so it's single phase, 13a and 3kw with a standard 3 pin plug in terms of the spec. We have an old (ish) house but have a new consumer unit and have had the...

Morning So, after draining my system to change a radiator valve and refilling it, we had LOTS of banging and clanging yesterday. That gradually subsided over the day and we had a nice warm house. This morning, the fan was running on the boiler but it wasn't firing. Another person on here...

While I'm in heating and plumbing mode I thought I'd chuck this one in. We had a shower in the bathroom that my other half got from Freecyle before we met. She'd had it for about 12 years and it worked fine but just needed a update. I replaced it with a £180 Triton thermostatic shower. This...

Hi all I've just posted in the plumbing forum and noticed the home automation one so thought I'd come and say hello. I'm really addicted to all this home automation stuff and thought I'd start with my current setup. Amazon Dots in the kitchen, garage and car Amazon Echo in the lounge Amazon...

We had a problem with an upstairs radiator not heating up so I part drained the system to replace the valve. In the end, I bought the wrong valve (2 x 15mm connections whereas the old one had a 15mm and a 22mm). Anyway, the valve was jammed closed so I freed it up and refitted it. It's a...

I fitted a new electric shower in April last year. It's worked fine until about 6 weeks ago. The head was scaled so I bought a new one. When we started using it, something wasn't right. It would sound like it was boiling in the shower unit, water flow would stop and then it would blow a...