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Hi all. Our beloved LG F1247TD Direct Drive washing machine has stopped powering up. What I have tried to date: Replace fuse. Try in different socket. Try other appliances in the washing machine's socket to prove socket ok. Clean out water filter at front (couple of small coins and some bits...

Hi all, Dishwasher plugged into socket in the kitchen started tripping the electrics (Main switch outside, not the circuit boards inside). Otherwise that socket works fine. Electrician round to look at socket etc and said all was fine. Therefore we all agreed problem with dishwasher which is...

Bear with me on this one: Came home from holiday last week - live in the countryside and converted farmhouse split into two. Ours is part old build, part new (c15 years old). Electrics tripping, initially just when something high power used (eg shower) but now regularly to the extent...

Apologies for lack of technical speak. I know nothing of electrics. Came back from hols and couple of days later the hoover caused the msin switch to fuse. Now the shower keeps tripping the electric. It's the upstairs shower. Did it about 4 times. Upstairs shower. Tried the downstairs shower...

V old system and Old boiler - Oil fired with four pipes exiting from it, top L+R both hot, Bottom L+R usually cold (I think from memory?). Control panel only allows Hot water, or Hot water + heating - no Heating only option. **Boiler working okay but rads stopped heating up**. Hot water...

My house is split into two - being an older part and an extension. My CH is warming the old part of the house that houses the boiler, but the new part takes an age for rads to warm. My thought was is the pump not working, took bleed nut off and with a small screwdriver it spins freely...

We have an old fashioned brick septic tank. It is increasingly frequently overflowing - particularly after emptying bath etc. After yet another evening with my arm down the drain trying to find a blockage enough is enough - time to replace it. Although I have used the forum for advice to go...

Need to replace the element on a NEFF oven. Got it all off okay - but need to remove the fan for get at one of the screws. See pic below - have taken the bolt off - but does it now just pull off or do I do something with the sticky out bit? Don't want to force it in case i break something...

I have an open system fed from a feeder tank in the attic. oil fired Boiler downstairs. We have a hot water tank on the first floor. All works fine when CH turned on, but when we put water only on to heat the tank we get an air lock developing at the entrance to the hot water tank. THis...

Realise not really a DIY issue - but there are a good few people on here with experience of oil heating etc - hoping the mods help us out by leaving the post on here to get some good advice. :wink: Here we are, now effectively a day before Christmas and a three day break for the working...

The flue to our oil fired boiler runs through the wall and outside - whereupon it raises about 10 feet to a level above roof height. in the storms Thursday night the wind has blown and snapped the flue. I braced the flue and set the boiler to run to check if it was still working as a vent to...

In the room directly above the boiler we have a hot water tank. The tank has a feed to and from the tank linking to the boiler. This feed goes through the coil and returns to the boiler. On the feed side there is a venting point. Continually I am finding (every 2-3 days) the water level...

Central heating pump appears to be playing up. Drained the system to put some Fernox in it - followed directions on here about draining the system. Refilled the system and bled at all applicable points - finally at the pump with the heating off. When doing this a small amount of water...

I need to get the details of the nozzle on my Mistral boiler to a plumber tomorrow - the details on the metal plate inside say "Nozzle 165" does this make sense? Does not seem consistent with nozzle sizes/types when I look on the internet.

Hi all - some advice /thoughts needed. I have posted on here in the past about problems with my plastering/paintwork on one wall within the living room - which the consensus was efflorescence (Hope I got that right). So solutions were offered all of which started with "find the cause of the...

Older Mistral boiler is currently pumping out heat for the radiators, but not heating the water tank. Have checked that there is no air lock to the tank, bled the supply point to the tank. The strange thing is if I put the heating on the "Water only" setting the radiators still come on...

Within my house we have 3 sets of windows that have mullions through to the external wall. On the external side they stick out at 45 degree angles each side as is the norm. But inside they are flat, flush against the level of the window. They have then been painted. Inside during...

Apologies if not correct forum, but most other woodburing questions are in this section. I have a wood burning stove - installed before I bought the house 2 years ago. For 3/4 of the height of the stove inside there is a lining about an inch and a half thick - looks like concrete. As this...

Evening all - as a complete novice the forum has guided me through a fair few fixes. But with me spending increasing amounts of time overseas for work i want to take out a coverplan - such as the British Gas offers. Are there any such plans to cover an oil fired boiler and central heating...

Did not want to hijack the other thread until the guy had an answer. On the post below I describe a problem with paint "peeling" due to this problem. //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=180386 Having searched for the course of the damp I think it is due to no vents into the...