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Agreed, although I do wish house builders made pipes accessible for situations like this and didn't bury them under 10cms of concrete.

For a combi boiler moving the boiler upstairs, yes we can run the gas supply up the outside wall, then across the front of the house, the problem then is drainage. We can't run a drain straight down as it will cover a window. And another poorly designed feature of our house is there is no down...

I have read most of the posts in the forum on this, and I think I already know the answer to this question, but some advice / hope would be quite good. Like many, I have a 15mm feed from my meter to my boiler. All the floors between the meter and the boiler are concrete. Going round the...

Solid concrete I'm afraid.

It ain't broke, but it ain't working well. And while I am happy to live with it, we will be renting out our house in the near future and central heating is the sorta thing you want working well when renting a house. And after spending a lot of time last night staring at my kitchen I think...

Hey guys, I am thinking of replacing my current conventional boiler for a newer more efficient boiler, but after speaking to an engineer today I have been put off the idea. So I was wondering if you guys could come up with something he couldn't. Currently I have a Potterton Flamingo 50...

Hi All A tiny little clip on the side of my flushing mechanism has broken for some unknown reason. And because of this, occasionally the flushing mechanism becomes slightly loose and water can be released into the toilet. It's easily fixed at the moment by pressing the flush again, but long...

Thanks for the info. I will bear that in mind and mention it when I get the pro in. It would be beyond my ability to add new parts that require piping or electrics. Changing parts that are already there though is another thing as they are usually quite interchangable.

OK stat changed. Motorised valve changed. Finger test done. Problem still there. Looks like there is a wiring issue somewhere. I had a very quick look at the wires and have decided that the only choice is to call in a professional at this point. Thanks for your help guys, I will let you...

We're getting heating because the tank stat has been removed and because of that the boiler always fires as it has no idea how hot anything is. Agile - I will try the finger technique at the weekend when I have time to fix what I break, so thanks for that. I am kinda putting off pulling out...

Sorry. I am going to check the pump, but that will not be as easy as replacing a room thermonstat which I know is already broken. And when I say know, I know the function isn't working, but I am not sure if its the thermostat itself. Isolating the pump will be a lot of work for me as I am...

Wiring is fine, the cylinder stat is there, just pulled out. I have left it out at the moment as its freezing and the pump is at max. I was a little concerned about the pump being at fault as that what pushed the hot water round the system. Given the amount of sludge that was in our...

First off I am going to apologies as there will be some cross over with other threads, but I seem to have issues which cross on loads of topics so I just want to make sure I am not missing something obvious. My kit: Potterton Flamingo 50 Honeywell Mechanical room thermostat Grundfos UPS...

Its a standard filament light bulb. As for the cost, that was just sort of a guesstimate.

We installed a dusk till dawn light about 1 year and a half ago and it has been working great up till now. Now when we turn it on, it just flickers for 30 seconds and then goes out and it won't come back on. Or it may not even come on at all. It seems really odd. The fact that its coming on...

YES! Bit of a delayed reply due to work, but all is good now. A couple of days of just letting the radiators do there thing seems to have worked after the flushing out. Only thing is there is a little gurgle from the boiler, but I can add some solution to the system which should get any...

Thanks Mandate, but thats what I did already. I turned off all the rads up stairs again today and whacked the pump on full and let the rads downstairs do there thing for 3 hours. And they are now getting baking hot, top and bottom. So the flushing I gave them yesterday has worked in terms of...

Right we bought a house and everything with the central heating was semi ok. We were decorating and noticed that pretty much every radiator was leaking, so we changed all the valves on all the radiators. While all the rads were off the walls, we thought why not flush them out. When we did big...