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    Help! Do I need a new heat exchanger unit?

    Our Ideal Response 120 combi boiler has been suffering constantly dropping pressure for some time now and we thought this was because of the PRV. On Sunday though, the boiler started dripping underneath from multiple points and now won't fire up. An engineer took one look at it and said the...
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    Help fitting a threshold guard/sill to our backdoor

    Our back door does not have a macclesfield sill of any kind and we want to seal the bottom of the door to protect from drafts and also ants and slugs crawling underneath in springtime. The base of the door is brick and the door itself is wood. Should we buy a macclesfield sill from Stormguard...
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    Pressure relief valve leaking

    The pipe leading outside of our house is spitting a little bit of water when the central heating is switched on. We have low pressure too even after filling the system to 1 bar it drops down to 0.5 when the heating is off. When the heating is on the bar is at around 1.5/2 which is normal...
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    Identifying name of valve on radiator which is leaking

    We have a low pressure problem on our combi boiler and I have identified a small leak (one drop per two mins or so) from the top left sticky-outy bit of the bedroom radiator (the side opposite to the bleed valve). Can anyone tell me what this is called? It looks the same as the bleed value on...
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    Advice on removing a radiator

    Never done this before but want to take a radiator off the wall to paint behind it. Issue is that we have a low pressure problem with our boiler and I'm worried that disconnecting a radiator will make this problem worse. Is this the case?
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    ideal Response 200 boiler low pressure problem

    Our boiler keeps loosing pressure so that it goes below 0.5. I top up the pressure to 1.5 but it goes back down over the period of 3-4 days now. Can someone suggest checks to make before I have to call out a plumber? I have bled the raditors and checked for leaks to them and they are fine...
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    Hanging lining paper over embossed wallpaper

    We have a 1930's semi and the main bedroom ceiling has nice, neat white embossed wallpaper on the ceiling. However, one corner has had a leak so this needs patching up by a plasterer. Once that has been done, is it ok just to hang lining paper over the whole ceiling or will the embossed paper...
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