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Thanks for all the hints. I continued to have problems with the CH until I found a proper engineer who, unlike BG's finest who hadn't even looked at it, correctly identified that the pump was failing and it was that which was causing kettling in the boiler and F24 faults. New pump and the...

Yes that's possible and the BG chap may be the first to have opened it for years. Replacing it will be the next job, probably with an automatic valve but, with a stopcock in the pipe, it's no longer urgent. I can still bleed it by opening the stopcock and the manual air vent. My biggest problem...

The dripping got worse, despite all my efforts to reseat the valve, so in the end I paid a plumber to insert a stopcock in the pipe. Problem solved but, since that valve has never leaked before, I'm wondering why it should have started doing so immediately after British Gas (who I've never had...

For now I've stopped it with bluetack and a plastic cap which may hold for a few days and I've shoved a towel under it in the airing cupboard . If someone has tightened it with pliars recently (apart from me after I took the photo) It could have been one of the clowns from British Gas who've...

I've opened and closed it (inc case there was some crud causing the drip but that's made it worse and tightening it with pliars didn't help. Can I seal it termporarily?

It doesn't appear to be loose. The water is appearing on the shoulder of the fitting, not between the fitting and the pipe. Can anyone explain its function? It appear to be part of the hot water rather than the boiler water system but I don't know that. I also don't know if one of the three...

Sure - I've just found my work light!

Having just had a boiler problem, so relying on fan heaters for four days to keep warm, I blessed having a hot water tank with an immersion heater in it as I at least had hot water to shower etc. I've always associated combi boilers with small flats not large houses but I could be wrong.

I had my boiler repaired by British Gas yesterday but what I assume to be a relief valve at the top of the vertical pipe alongside the tank is weeping. Can anyone confirm what this fitting it and how to sort it? I have reduced the boiler output temperature to 60 degrees and that seems to have...