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Morning people. We are having someone round to install a new gas fire, but they have asked us in advance about our flue. We have a block in our living room which protrudes out about 6" In the loft the flue pipe is metal and cylindrical On the roof we dont have a stack, but just like...

Morning people. We are having someone round to install a new gas fire, but they have asked us in advance about our flue. We have a block in our living room which protrudes out about 6" In the loft the flue pipe is metal and cylindrical On the roof we dont have a stack, but just like...

Hi ladies & gents, We've got hot rads upstairs and cold downstairs. Only thing i've done recently is turn off a rad to paint, and turn back on. According to the posts on here i need to switch off all rads upstairs, and see if I get any heat downstairs. Is this correct? i'm gonna try that...

Hi ladies and gents, I've got a (very old) Vulcan Continental boiler which at 3am on xmas day when the missus went into the kitchen smelt of gas. I personally couldnt smell it, but i've been proved wrong before, so I shut off at the main valve to the house. This has happened before (about 5...

Hi, What I would like to do is connect a wood burning stove with a back boiler into my oil fired central heating system. The central heating system is closed loop running at 1.5 bar. Is this possible ?

Hi all, I've got a Peugeot 206 1.4 5 Door, 04 Plate Driving to work this morning and the EMS system warning light came on. The car started juddering a bit, but stops juddering when I slow down to ~30. The indicators are also working okay, but the clicking noise comes and goes. This started...

Hi all, Complete plumbing novice here hence the following question Tried to take a radiator off today, give it a little too much force and now the pipework to the rad valve is leaking (where the pipework enters the valve). Is it a case of putting in a new olive (cant nip it up anymore -...

Hi all, new to this so dont really know what im doing I moved into a new house 3 months ago. Everytime I drill into the wall, and from the hole where the dryer vents loads of tiny polystyrene balls appear. A friend told me that they are just a few loose ends, and most of them should be glued...