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Hi, My 89 year old mother lives in a council house, which has been all electric since my late father had the gas removed and economy 7 installed. Since father passed away earlier this year and not knowing much about the household things she no relies on me to sort things out when they go...

Hi, About fifteen months ago I replaced a faulty 3 way valve with a Horsman unit (purchased from screwfix), well tonight it seems to of given up and caused the boiler to switch off. After a bit of manual fiddling with the lever I managed to get it to work, but the motor part buzzes and...

About a year and a half ago we had an issue with our CH system, which had an air separator as shown in the diagram below (although the vent pipe was straight up to the FE tank) Turned out that the separator was silted up and the point where the 15mm cold feed joined the separator was...

Hi guys, long time no post ;) Murphys law being what it is, I know I should of left that slightly leaky radiator valve as it was bound to cause trouble... but... I meant well. I drained the system down, replaced the offending olive and then re-filled the system. Then went round and vented...

Hi, We moved into our house in 2001, and as part of the survey it was suggested that we had the wiring tested due to the age and the fact the previous occupant was a bodge DIYer. The result of the test was that although the insulation tests gave good readings, it was advisable to re-wire the...

Hi, Around 6 years ago we had rockwool cavity wall insulation installed, along with new double glazing. However now we have a damp problem that is showing itself up as black mould along the skirting board of two outside walls (north and east facing), and on the same walls but in the...

We have a condesation problem in out home, which seems more acute since having rockwool cavity wall insulation isntalled a few years back. I want to install some air bricks (all three bedrooms have vents at ceiling level but the kitchen and lounge don't) but I can't find any info on the best...

Our current cooker (now 15 years old) is in need of replacement. It is connected to the mains gas via a short black flexible hose that connects to the gas pipe via what can be best described as a bayonet type fitting. When we get a new cooker I assume it will have a similar hose, so would it...

Hi, We have a condensation problem that turns out to be due to the fact that the previous owner of our house simply bricked up an old door way with a single skin of brickwork which he then clad over with UPVc. It has been suggested that I could resolve the problem by insulating the porch...

Before I get flamed for breaking one of the forum rules, this is just a generisation and I'm not after true prices. I guess one of the main reasons we do DIY is to save on the labor that professional tradesmen charge. Having just installed 7 new radiators in our house, and kept a record of...

Further to my previous posts I've just spent an "enjoyable" weekend ripping out the old rads and pipework and replacing it with new. I have three rads connected, mostly via 22mm with 15mm feeds to the rads. The main feed / return pipes are capped until I have more time to install the remaining...

Ive been having issues with our central heating, mainly trying to get the downstairs rads hot (when the system worked you could hardly keep your hands on them !) It has been suggested that the issue could be sludge or an airlock or a faulty pump. If you've read my previous posts then you'll...

I'm in the process of installing a complete new radiator circuit and I've got to the point where I need to rip out the old pipwork under the floorboards to allow me to run the new in. However as I'm not able to take time off work and doing this at weekends and evenings we still need hot water...

Need some advice. I've been having problems with my CH system, and whilst I can get some rads warm, its hard to balance due to a poor installation of some additional rads by a so called professional plumber. However, whats perplexing me is that the feed pipe to the rads downstairs is hot...

Why is it that nearly every plumber that I contacted with a view to resolving an issue with my heating wanted to sell me a powerflush... is it money for old rope ? I gather they hook up a pump, a waste pipe and run an acid based cleaner through the system at pressure in a bid to get all the...

Guys, I'm looking at replacing the old pipework to the radiator circuit and fit some new rads at the same time. I want to keep the existing copper pipework in the airing cupboard, so in essanace I want to connect to the 22mm copper feed and return pipes and connect the new pipework to them...

Hi, Is there such a device as a digital room-stat rather than the ones that use a bi-matalic strip. Most of the ones I've seen have such a wide variation between the switch on / off range Malcolm

Hi, first post so please be gentile ! 5 years ago we moved in to our home, and withing weeks the old Wickes Bolier packed up. We got a guy in (it was just before christmas) and he quoted over £2K to rip out the old boiler and install a new one. Regretfully I was not around whilst the work...