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We have the above boiler, which was serviced in July, all fine. I noticed the pressure was a bit low today, so I tried to turn the lever as usual and it broke off in my hand. Looking underneath there is also a screwdriver notch, but I can't budge that (with minimal force anyway, I don't want to...

Nice quick job I thought, to fix the dripping tap in the kitchen... Initial stubbornness overcome with WD40 and a bit of force, the tap valve unscrewed and was wobbly, but would not pull out. Some more twisting and pulling and still wouldn't come. I then decided to screw it back in, but this...

Hi, Simple question (hopefully) before I call someone out... A while back our toilet cistern overflowed and we had water all over the floor. Obviously once we heard the water we were able to stop it and have made sure that the water has stopped each time we've flushed it since before leaving...

A couple of weeks ago we used a pressure washer, plugged into one of the sockets in our conservatory. After a while, it stopped working, but we assumed a thermal cutout on the pressure washer. We left it to cool down and then moved it to another socket the other side of the house to use it for...

My Biasi 24s wasn't on when I came home but could hear the fan running. Tried turning it off and on and it just made a buzzing noise but no ignition. Same in "summer" mode when turning the hot tap on. I noticed the pressure was on zero so tried letting more water into the system and tried...

Hi, Last year I noticed a slight change in colour on the paint of an interior wall, the pattern suggesting it was coming from where it joins the exterior wall. I had assumed that it was just a shadow for a while, but on closer examination the paint felt colder and slightly damp. Looking...

Accidentally leant on my bath taps a bit heavily and broke the plastic nuts securing them to the bath: They appear to have a 1" central hole diameter: This is what the area under the bath looks like: I assume I just need to: 1. Buy a couple of these plastic nuts. 2. Turn...

Right, some backstory: last winter my hot water failed. Various local gas 'experts' wouldn't come out because they were clueless about Biasi and had tried and failed to fix this exact problem before. Eventually one of them gives me the number of this guy who knows what he's doing. He comes out...

When I had my boiler serviced, the chap said he was concerned that the flue pipe hadn't been sealed into the exterior wall, and there was a small risk of CO leaking into the house. Not concerned enough to condemn the boiler or anything, but I should still get it sorted. Basically, behind the...

Hi, So, I have a problem with my toilet... Essentially, the cistern has suddenly become extremely slow-filling. I think it's even filling too slowly to put enough pressure on the flush mechanism to close it, so what little water is coming in just dribbles through to the bowl. I'm currently...

Hi, I moved into this house about a year ago. Shortly afterwards, when I had a lot of people to stay and so the shower was used a lot in a short time, the shower tripped the RCD. Since then, the time before it tripping has slowly decreased to being within a long shower (~10 mins), and is...

Hi, I have one of the newer-style button flush toilets, the plastic flush mechanism is made by SIAMP. Looking at the manufacturer site, it looks like a Skipper 36A (Mechanisms >> Dual Flush >> Skipper 36A). Anyway, a while back I realised that the cistern lid felt a bit loose and...

Hi, Hopefully someone can help... I just upgraded my old Rotary-style thermostat to a digital programmable one (Sunvic TLX6501 model from B&Q). Since connecting it up I have no heating or hot water. The pilot light is out, and I have already tried replacing the fuse in the...