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well seeing as a thermocouple is generally under £20 and a pump can be got for about 2-3 times that...I still reckon the £25 a month she is saving will cover those problems. Its a combi BTW

Thanks for the replies. I am trying to talk her out of paying good money after bad and putting it away in savings for a rainy day. I will be getting her grandson to do the inhibitor bit for a few weeks then and THEN I will go round and see about draining it all down. I will have a word with a...

I am annoyed mainly as her actual gas bill is only about £20 a month and they are willing to take another £25 on top and then not cover her for anything. I know the parts are available so will ringing BG service up and complaining help I wonder>?> Does anyone have any idea as to what the part...

I am querying a few things here but my main bug bear is this so called BG service they 'offer'. My friends gran pays £25 a month for this service whereby they are supposed to keep her boiler and rads up to scratch. Over the years they have just replaced ONE rad valve with a TRV. They havent been...

Thats great guys...thanks a bunch. I must get one of these in before he starts sapping the national grid :lol:

We are having an office erected in the garden and I need to install a meter so that I can charge all the electricity used for the business to the business and not take it from the household bills. Now I found one somewhere once but am damned if I can trace it now. :shock: Does anyone have any...

The waste pipe is too long as they have left it the same length irregardless of which option you take for the overflow position. This means that the pipework is too long and sags lower than the trap...therefore pulling the seal out of shape...therefore leaking. Other than cutting it shorter...

No it can only go one way...as it comes out of the overflow spout at the top of the bath it has a right angled bend and swoops down to a straight coupling at the trap/waste end. Hadnt thought of that until now but looking at it, it can only go on one way

Fitted a p-shaped bath last year for a customer, who is now complaining that the overflow is leaking. The overflow is fitted to the knob that opens the waste and is high on the side of the bath...which is ok. However when the bath water is let out the subsequent backflow up the overflow pipe...

Lectrician...yes he is repairing so they will be swapping and changing regularly. There will only be the rare occasion where more than 5 or 6 pc's are on, but this does happen. Due to the limited space the larger equipment like the printer and photocopier may be hard wired in on fused spurs...

Had already covered the metering angle Crafty 8) I know just how much my leccy bill has gone up since he moved in, and am still paying for the bills I got when he worked in the loft before I evicted his business :D Now due to the landlord of his business park going bust he is now homeless...

Thanks Zen...at least I know where it is coming from now

This is part of my NVQ so was trying to find out if there was any other way than putting in RCBOs. We have an existing CU unit being moved anyhow and was hoping to use this for the office as we will need about 4-5 ways and it is a 7 being replaced by a 12 in the house. Also...as a side...

In 7671 there is mention that no more than 10 computers can be connected in a system as the possible earth leakage of 3mA per pc would put the RCD out if it were a 30mA HELP!!! Does this apply to the screens as the old CRT type monitors were no doubt less efficient than the new TFT screens or...

Thanks for that...leaking cistern now fixed 8)

A friend has a Space Ideal Standard close coupled pan and we are unable to take off the cistern lid. The push button arrangement doesnt seem to unscrew like others I have seen. Is there something we are missing here?

I have a Potterton Combi that is situated in the loft, presently on a 24 hour timer that is a pain at weekends to have to traipse up to in order to turn on! I am looking at upgrading to a digital wireless system so that I can have the choice of turning it on from the comforts of the front room...

Well the grey fittings look to be straight forward 't' and elbow joints and no sign of a trap at all. The flexi pipe was pushed in and sealed with sealant (Which then leaked...hence the call out for me!!) and the pipe winds its way to the back of the unit where it is pushed and sealant sealed...

It looks as though I will have to cut away a bit more of the back of the cupboard as I wont be able to do the compression fitting up. I am hoping that the 90deg fitting is push fit, but if it isnt where do I go from there? I spose I may have just enough room to cut it from the outgoing waste to...

That is exactly what they have done! I want to replace all that pipework, along with the sink and put in new...but the last connection going out of the wall is a 90deg bend and I will ideally like to have a straight there so that the fall is sufficient. The 90 deg bend is 'bonded' to a flexi...