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I have been going round in circles trying to decide the best way to upgrade the CH of our 2.5 bedroom single glazed cottage. Currently we have a conventional system with tanks in the attic and HWC in the bathroom cupboard. There is an approx 30 year old AGA oil fired boiler which has not put a...

Hi all. I am fully aware that this question has been asked multiple times and I have trawled through a lot of threads on this. I am trying to diagnose an issue and was just hoping someone could confirm if I am on the right lines here. The set up: 2x large storage tanks at same level in loft...

I would like to get the electrics in our flat checked out by a professional. Mainly just to have piece of mind that they are safe and not going to cause a fire in our building. I asked an electrician for a quote over the phone and he recommended an EICR. Having googled what this is, it appears...

We have a Hoover oven that is probably fairly old (maybe at least 10 years). We moved in a couple of years ago and the oven has tripped the breaker a couple of times but otherwise no issues. Today the oven cut out while we were using it. It was still on at the display but the fan and light had...

Every so often, when I switch off the bathroom light (which also switches off the extractor fan) the 5x dimmer spotlights in the living room dim (quite significantly) for a split second before brightening again. Seems to be the only combination of things to cause this - no other lights affected...

In the 18 months that we have lived in our flat, we have had some visible damp on our ceiling adjacent to the bay window (3 separate times altogether). It seems to happen after particularly heavy rain when it is also windy. The photo shows the alignment where the damp patch is occurring. The...

Anyone have any ideas what this fault is? Will run the hot water for a little while and then boiler will lock out with L3 shown. Can't even find this fault code in the boiler manual that I downloaded. Ideal independent C24. Cheers

I am getting some asbestos insulation board removed in my flat but the company doing the work do not replace the board with a modern alternative. The board is in two locations - under the electric hob and makes up one of the wall panels of the inside of a kitchen cupboard. I was planning on...

Drained down system a couple of weeks ago after having some cleaner in there for a couple of weeks - drained down system, re-filled, drained and topped up with Sentinel X100 added. Unless I was mistaken, I thought that the pressure had maybe gone up 0.05 bar over the next couple of weeks...

The engineer who came round to service my boiler added some system cleaner and instructed me to run the boiler every other day for a couple of weeks before draining down and refilling. The below is the process that I aim to follow: 1) Isolate boiler (electrics) 2) Attach hose to drainage point...

Our flat's bathroom is on the 1st floor of a conversion (in the centre of the house with no external walls). Since yesterday we have noticed several tiny black ants each time we go in there. I have noticed that they are coming out of a small gap in the mastic where the bottom outer edge of the...

I live in an old house that was converted into flats. Our flat has a combi boiler as do 4 of the other 8 flats. What I didn't realise was 3 of the flats are still on the old communal heating/hot water system - I think that this is a vented system. In the attic there are two plastic (old...

I have found that the towel rail radiator connection leaks very slightly. It doesn't drip, it is just slightly wet at the points shown in the photo. The leak is so minor that I am not getting any noticeable pressure loss in CH system. What approach is best to take?: 1. Do nothing as leak is...

Hi everyone, I have 2 inline stop cocks for the cold water supply under the sink. I wanted to check that they were operational in case of a flooding emergency. However, both seem to be pretty well stuck open. Being in London, I am thinking this is a limescale related issue. In fact you can...

Hi everyone. I have a couple of boiler/CH related queries. I had an engineer come round to re-pressurise the expansion vessel fairly recently, as the CH pressure kept rising drastically; causing the PRV to activate. He fixed this issue but said that the boiler was not technically serviceable...

We have an Ideal Independent C24 boiler. Since we moved in just under a year ago we have had to re-pressurise a couple of times using the filling loop; which I have read is fairly normal. The other day I needed to re-pressurise again. I may however have accidentally left the filling loop valve...

I've noticed that the shower tap has a reasonably quick leak (a constant drip); only when the tap has been opened and the shower is running. I removed the tap and have highlighted in the photos where the leak is coming from. As someone with little (no) plumbing experience could some tell me if...

Hi everyone In the communal area of the flat, we have timer switches (about 5 in total) which used to switch on the lights for a couple of minutes before switching them off again. Since returning from Christmas, the lights are permanently on. I have gone round to each switch to see if any were...