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Mr B Your trying to worry the problem to a conclusion. There is no doubt in my mind that most boiler choices are made by the consumer having done some limited research and selecting a known make, or by an installer having a loyalty to a particular brand for valid enough commercial reasons. They...

Rob I would certainly support Muggles and Dan, I have had an HRE24, I know it's not a combi, for just over 2 years and I'm completely pleased with it. I got mine from Richmonds, just off Scotland St in Glasgow. Martin

Canonbeck Without any vested interest I would wholeheartedly agree with the choice of Intergas, I have had an HRE24 with a 150L Telford unvented cylinder for the best part of two years and as far as I am concerned it works exceptionally well. My house is a large 3 bed semi, solid walls and by no...

David It is entirely possible, more probably likely, that the cold feed to the bathroom is tank fed. To check open the basin cold tap and put your thumb over the spout, if you stop the water it will almost certainly be tank fed. Since the property has a combi fitted it will have had the cold...

David You don't mention whereabouts you are but in both Glasgow and Edinburgh this is a very common situation, I've been to many flats where there is no individual stopcock. Usually when built the kitchen cold tap was the only one mains fed, the bathroom cold and HW cylinder all being tank fed...

Dick I've always found Richmonds off Scotland Street very helpful and pretty good on prices as well. I think they are one of the last two independent plumbers merchants left in Scotland. Worth looking in if your passing. Regards Martin

Hi Ray I'm not a heating angineer, although I am involved in other engineering disciplines, and I have a Intergas HRE, which I am very pleased with. Provided you have proper controls I feel that they work well, certainly it modulates down to almost nothing if required, no short cycling, and...

Tony A disingenuous question? It would be a brave or foolish individual who said never, or indeed always. I was merely citing the normal domestic conveyancing procedure as probably applied to the OP's position. It could equally apply to electrical, gas , or water services. Whether Ken agrees...

Tony, perhaps not unreasonably doesn't understand the Scottish conveyancing process. Simply, I am selling a house and Joe wants to buy it.We both appoint lawyers to act for us at a fixed price, usually a small percentage of the purchase price. Joe makes an offer which I accept, at which stage...

Hi PW1123 I had the same problem when I moved house. The boiler had failed on the day the previous owners moved out and they had contacted a firm to fix it. It took four visits by said firm after which they still hadn't sorted it so I got rid of them and got another company who managed to sort...

I fear I have dropped one here, my apologies. For some reason i didn't connect safe zones and buried cables which displays my lamentable lack of domestic knowledge, my experience being industrial where everything is in view. I did consult the yellow book which of course confirms EFL and JohnW2...

This thread caught my eye as I have this situation in my boiler room. It's actually adaptaflex but the principal is the same, briefly it extends a plastic conduit into an enclosure and is put together from the conduit as swivel gland, flexi, fixed gland, anchored by an earth nut with a fly lead...

Woody Thanks very much, I am grateful for your help. If I can master the technology I'll stick up some pics somewhere. Regards Martin

Woody Thanks for that. Part of my thinking is dictated by the fact that the lintel forms the window head, and said window is recessed 150mm into the reveal. The lintel has to be at least that deep so it seemed to me that a 215mm deep lintel solves two problems in a oner. I also felt that a 65mm...

I am currently refitting the bathroom, part of which involves exterior dranage so I have a scaffold up. The roughcast above the window was in very poor condition so I have removed some of it to examine the lintel. To my horror I found that there was considerable wastage and a lot of loose...

Depending on the type of building, the job may or may not have required a building warrant before commencement. If not then you should have received an Electrical Installation Certificate and that would be the end of it. We thankfully do not have a part P process as does England and Wales. What...

I'll put my tuppenceworth in. I had an HRE SB installed at the end of last year, having been impressed by the engineering qualities I saw on the display unit in the merchants. As I posted in January I had the misfortune to suffer a major malfunction due to a manufacturing error, rare I...

Hi Jack There is a contradiction in your post. You state the HW is gravity fed yet it has it's own pump! In principle the concept of S plan wiring can be extended to as many zones as you wish, but what you don't mention is whether the HW part is also the feed and expansion for an open vent...

I believe the CM927 is only one channel, I need a two channel device. Either way I picked up a Salus RT300 this morning which will sort out the reliability problem for the moment, a bit of wiring I know, but that's the easy bit. Thanks for the suggestions. The Horstmann RF product is going back...

I suspect at the end of the day your right, trying to avoid a raggle if I can.