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I'm a service engineer who works only on oil fired boilers. I got a call to a new customer last week who has a potterton flowsure combi which was stinking of oil. I went out to it and replaced a leaking flexible fuel pipe, gave the burner (RDB) a service and put some air into the Exp vessel...

hi, I know there is no legal requirement for an electrical sefety certificate on rental properties but I have one and would like to have it checked out before my new tenantrs move in just to make sure it's safe for them. Has anyone here had this done or does anyone do it? I like to know...

I have a renatl property withe a powermax 155 its about 17 years old and in need of it's yearly coil descale (norfolk hard water!) as the bath flow is very slow again. I'm thinking due to the age of it rather than waste more time and money i should just change it now and hopefully have happy...

Hi all, very quick question... does anyone know the most likeley causes for the high limit stat to keep tripping on the powermax 155. Its the left hand one as you look from the front not the other one. It's in a rental property I own and I'm going away on holiday and would like to help the...

hi.. I've been having loads of trouble with my dishwasher lately. Started with everything coming out with a white film and tasting salty (if you didn't rinse before use) I found if I turned off the Softener it was OK but stuff wasn't cleaning very well. I took off the side and found a large...

Hello all... I,m an oil fired heating engineer so have no idea about gas boilers except that I've had an Icos in my own house for several years which has been fine for me but loads of people seem to slag them off. My problem is that I have a rental property and the Gas man went round to do...

A few months ago we found each time we turned off the socket that feeds our TV at the wall the RCD in the consumer unit tripped off. This was the big one at the end not the individual switch that is on each circuit. I assumed a problem with the socket and was going to replace it, but in the...

I have a customer with a Heatslave 15/19 that has just started to lose pressure rapidly...but intermitently. Several months ago it beagn to lose pressure and I found the Diaphram was split on the vessel so I replaced it and all was well until about two weeks ago. Now the customer is losing...

I feel a bit of a dummy for asking but in 12 years servicing heating systems I've never come accross one of these (with a problem) I have a customer who has a Thermostatic valve fitted to the flow of his gravity hot water system... He's only getting luke warm water and I found there is...

Hi I've got a problem with my icos boiler. It shows a F L messsage which means it has a flame error. Initially when I tried to start it it lt and ran for about a minute with a flame established then seemed to shut down and attempt to restart a couple of times. The restart failed and on...