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Central heating pipes - or at least, that's what I told the guy they were and he didn't laugh and say "no they're not!" - and no idea why the downstairs neighbours didn't run up to me back whenever it happened, screaming that their flat was flooding. Engineer says in buildings like this the...

Well the engineer was equally mystified as to what could have caused it, so I guess we're going with "probably something to do with whatever you spilled on it" but he was able to fix it in about an hour (and he's going to bring some lagging round when he comes back at the weekend to do the...

Central London. I might see if my old landlord knows someone, he has a lot of properties in this area.

I don't have a water tank so I guess yes it is mains pressure. If you do a quick search for my previous posts (one thread from a couple of years ago) there are some photos there of the boiler which I think is a combi. OK then I definitely won't get the scourer out in case that's the straw that...

They look OK as far as I'm any judge. The central heating pipes are "mine" in the sense that I had the old microbore pipes replaced when I moved in, which is seven years ago now. Everything else has always been there. They are fine everywhere else around the flat (OK some of it is boxed in...

So not a massive job then, despite how horrendous it looks? Just slice a foot or so out and replace, then refill the system and we're all good to go? That's a huge relief. I was thinking all sorts of things about how the whole thing would be wrecked etc. What do you reckon about the pipe below...

The nearly-empty bottle on its side at the back, which I assume was the culprit, is "Harpic Power Plus". If it's not that, I am at a loss to what else it could have been! These pipes are directly below my kitchen sink.

In the top picture the top two pipes look massive because they are closer to the camera. I can trace them to the supply to the hot and cold taps so I think they are for the washing machine (which weirdly has both hot and cold feed pipes although it only takes from the cold). The "why aren't you...

Not exactly, but it would seem that knocking over a bottle of toilet cleaner (key ingredient: 9% hydrochloric acid) at the back of your under-sink cupboard without realising you've done it is a bit of a disaster for any central heating pipes that might have been running along the wall at the...

I'm sure this wasn't what you meant, but here is the flue outside. (Also there in the picture: scaffolding, a random bit of wood nailed to the wall which has always been there, and new gas pipes which are the brown/white vertical ones.) (Thanks to Mottie for how to post photos! :)) I used to...

Hi all - sorry for delay, I wanted to upload photos as requested by The Novice but had to work out how. I have a nasty feeling you might have to lie on your sides to see them properly but no idea how to turn them sorry. First, here is where it is now, sticking out in front of the window. Also...

Hi all Hoping you can help me with probably not enough info... I have a Worcester 28i Junior, which lives in the kitchen of my two-bedroom flat. The boiler was new in 2011. I've lived here since 2014 and never had it serviced but the previous owner must have done because the flat was rented...