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I've got a fairly new build house that has an in-line TMV valve connected to the hot water tap on the bath. I have a thermostatic bath filler/shower connected to the hot water supply coming from the in-line TMV. The hot water is supplied by a combi boiler. The shower is ok, but I'm wondering...

I just wondered peoples opinions that work on them. I'm buying a house that has a back boiler fitted, as far as I'm aware its fully functioning. In my last house I replaced the back boiler with a combi when it stopped working. I'm just tempted to replace this one, before that happens as I...

I have a Baxi duo tec 28 HE combi boiler, controlled by a wireless Siemens RDJ10RF, room stat and receiver. I've already replaced this once and it has just failed again, they appear to be utter pieces of crap. The thing I do like about it though, is that the 1 day, 2 on's programmer is a work...

My combi boiler was installed last November but the condensate line goes outside into the drain pipe through the wall. It was mild last winter but I would rather have the condy line going into the washing machine waste somehow as there is a heater in the garage below the waste should it get...

I recently got a combi boiler fitted and the old back boiler removed. I am wanting to make a kind of feature in the alcove and put power in there. The house is a late 80's 2 bed semi. The chimney has a flexible metal liner installed that is surrounded by what looks like loft insulation...

I am going to get this boiler replaced very soon, and sod's law it has just started to play up. The boiler was wired up wrong, but in 2008 with excellent advice from D.Hailsham on this forum I wired it correctly. //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1031849#1031849 It has worked...

I have decided to put my television on the wall it is a new build that has dry lined walls. It is a fairly short run as I do not want it to high. I was just going to dig a channel out and hide the wires then fill it back in with filler. I might install a mains socket that is just ran from a...

I had an electrical fault on Friday in the box where the meter is outside the house, it appeared to be making an arcing sound and the lights were dimming on and off in the house and then it caused the RCD to trip on the downstairs sockets. I got EON out and there was a bad connection in the box...

I recently bought some trace heating wire/tape off Ebay as I have had numerous problems with pipes freezing in my garage, the last one caused a full-on leak. The pipework is a mixture of copper and I think it is HEP2O or similar that Focus sell. The trace heating wire is this...

I am about to buy a slot in dishwasher and would like to make the plumbing as easy as possible. I was planning on replacing the existing cold tap for the washing machine with a with a twin outlet tap to feed both the appliances. The only problem with this I would have limited space because of...

I recently bought a Scantronic 9448+ to replace an older 9448 panel that was faulty. I have wired it up as the instructions state. It worked fine at first but when I walked into Zone 1 the panel "tamper" light came on. I rechecked all the wiring and reset the panel by bridging the RST pins...

My ageing Mira event thermostatic power shower cut out the other day, prior to this the pump motor was sounding a little rough, still maintaining pressure though. I checked the motor brushes and these were worn right down with virtually nothing left. I renewed the brushes as the price of parts...

My Whirlpool W120 will not spin, it just continues at a slower speed pumping out the water but not spinning until the timer reaches the stop position. I cannot hear any clicking noise for the spin to start. I have repaired plenty of faults on the machine in the past, so I am willing to have...

I posted a couple weeks back on here about problems with my central heating pump and 3-way zone valve not opening when I selected heating on my programmer, but the boiler was starting. So after some great advice off cjb1971, I linked out the red and yellow wires on the wall thermostat...

My heating is currently not working properly, the hot water is working fine though. It is quite an old system, Thorn EMI back boiler, with hot water cylinder upstairs and header tank in the loft. It has a 3 way Honeywell divertor valve. The boiler is firing up when heating is selected on the...

After reading the excellent sticky on here it appears that my reason for having only hot water and no heating is that the diverter valve is faulty on my system. It is an old system compromising a Thorn Emi back boiler, cold water header tank, hot water tank, I think the hot water is gravity fed...

I am getting a new kitchen fitted soon and up to press I am buying a fully intergrated Diplomat dishwasher off the kitchen supplier. I have close family who have both had severe grief with dishwashers failing prematurely, both of these were slot in Zanussi machines for around £250-£300. Anyway...

I am getting a kitchen fitted and at the moment I am just going along with the suppliers intergrated Diplomat dishwasher for about £300. However I know dishwashers can be extremley troublesome just like washing machines :roll: I know 2 people that have had Zanussi's fail within 2 years and...

My 10 year old Whirlpool washing machine decided to flood my kitchen on saturday. Fortunately my girfriend saw it and shouted of me so it was stopped before it could really do damage. Luckily I was not out, but I never go out and leave these pieces of crap on anyway as a plumber told me never to...