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Hi All, Woke up to a cold house this morning :( Red light flashing so I've tried to reset the boiler number of times but no luck. Fan is working, pump is working and there is spark but it doesn't fire up. Got my multimeter and boiler manual out and started going through fault finding. Turns...

Hi, Last summer I've installed vertical radiator (Hudson Reed Revive Vertical) but its not performing very well. After reading many topics and googling a lot I've found out that I need "flow diverter" which wasn't supplied with the radiator but I can't find place to buy one. Can someone...

Hi, system: standard open vented, 2 zone valves About a week ago we had gas valve replaced as it broke down, plumber had set gas pressure to 12.5 and said this should be fine. He had to guess it as we don't have boiler manual and it's impossible to get one. Unfortunately I have noticed...

Hi, system: standard open vented boiler Glow Worm Fuel Saver MKII BF30 some time ago boiler didn't fire up, after playing with thermostat it did and worked fine for couple of weeks and then stopped :( I rang plumber and when he started his checks boiler fired up, he said that gas valve...

Hi, standard open vented system with 2 zone valves boiler: Glow-worm Fuelsaver MKII About 2hrs ago boiler tried to fire up but instead of one click there was a few short ones and it didn't fire up :( Since then I've spent time trying to work out what's wrong and I'm 90% sure its the...

Hi, System: standard open vented "S" plan ("C" plan till this afternoon), boiler and HW tank on the ground floor. I have installed second zone valve which controls water flow from boiler to HW tank. To do it I had to drain CH and HW loop, now after refiling it looks like there is air...

Hi, I'm planning to replace my old radiator which produces about 6000BTU with new vertical one. I've used online calculators and I need about 5500BTU but the problem is that vertical radiators are not as efficient as the standard ones. I was looking for some time for high BTU rated vertical...

Hi, Instead of using brain I've used force and created small crack (20mm) on the basin outlet, any ideas how to fix it? It doesn't leak but you can see dark line and it annoys me a lot... Is there any paint/filler/sealer that I could use to get rid of it? Thanks for any advice...

Hi, I was planning to install thermostatic shower/bath mixer tap but it needs min. 1bar water pressure to work properly. I bought water pressure gauge to check pressure and cold is 2bar but hot is 0 :( Question: Is it possible to feed HW cylinder from mains without F&E tank so i can get...

Hi, I'm planning on tiling kitchen floor to do so I need to remove units and appliances including electric oven and gas hob and when tiling is done connecting them back again. Can I disconnect/reconnect any of those appliances myself? I suppose I'm not allowed to touch gas but what about...

Hi, I'm about to start bathroom refurbishment, to do so I have to replace part of the old chipboard floor because it's got big "hill" right in the centre of the bathroom (probably there was not enough space left for expansion). Bathroom floor is 180x180cm. At the moment there is 22mm...

Hi, I'm thinking about replacing my bath mixer with thermostatic one. I've got open vented system in my house, will it be suitable for this kind of tap as they require at least 1bar water pressure. Thanks.

Hi, It's my first post on this forum so first of all I would like to say hello to everyone. Now to the problem. I bought a house recently (3mths ago) and it's got rather old open vented GCH/HW installation which contains GlowWorm FuelSaver MK2 boiler, HW storage tank and 4 radiators (3 of...