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My little quarter-house faces south/west and gets blisteringly hot in sunny weather. I need new windows but what I'd like is windows with glass that changes its tint from clear on cloudy days to progressively darker according to how bright the sun is, in much the same way as the lenses in my...

I may be being dense but how does one list just the threads one has posted in? Many thanks. Mike

Bit of background first. I attended a Powermax 140 boiler yesterday producing only warmish water and fixed it with a new blender valve. I set the new valve to deliver hot water at 52 degrees C. On testing the two Aqualisa Quartz showers my customer found they still didn't run as hot as they...

Can anybody suggest a merchant that stocks Kermi Compact steel panel radiators please? I have a customer with about 20 or so and they are replacing them one at a time. I'm based in Reading, Berkshire. Cheers, Mike

I fix boilers for a living, and although I'm a gas bod I'm getting more and more calls these days to Economy 7-powered thermal-store water heaters. I currently have one that fails to heat up overnight, and I'm mystified. I've checked over-all continuity by taking the cover off the consumer...

We have uPVC window and two of the sashes won't open. The rack & pinion mechanisms inside have stiffened/jammed/broken/disintegrated to the point where the square shafts on the handles have broken off in the window frame. Inserting another square shaft into the square hole and applying brute...

I'm trying to establish what sort of single conductor cable to use to repair a relay fire inside one of these: http://www.gledhill.net/water-storage/downloads/technical-manuals/electramatemain.pdf It's a thermal store water heater. Gledhill are sending me new relays and holders but cannot...

Good evening everybody. My first post on DIYnot.com. Just to outline my background, I'm a heating engineer and private landlord. I'm self-employed, and registered with CORGI and OFTEC. I specialise in central heating and boiler fault diagnosis/repair, and I do occasional LPG work on boats...