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I'm looking to connect an OpenTherm Honeywell T6R stat to a Ferroli HE26C. I'm aware this hasn't got the best reputation in the world, but it's managed 10 years with nothing more than a couple of O-ring replacements, and still seems quite happy. The manual (...

I think the OP is misunderstanding what the TRV numbers actually mean. He seems to be expecting them to control the temperature of the radiator :) Roughly speaking a number on a TRV represents one 'step' in room temperature (Anything around a degree or two, depending on the TRV) Until the room...

Nowhere remotely close to standard. A competent DIYer could do better than that.

Local model shop if you have one. Standard bit of kit for model railway point motors. (More common in the return to center variant than the latching, but does what you want in either variant)

As someone who has been around here a long time, I can say that the 'best' boiler on here changes with the wind :P What's considered to be the best now may well end up being slagged off in 5 years time. By far and away the most important thing I suspect is the general quality of the install and...

That really depends on how much care they've taken with the supplier. It's perfectly possible to get stuff manufactured in China with CE and ISO approvals etc. , but it's also equally possible (and sadly more common) for the standards to be ignored totally, but still printed on the package. A...

Trademark is owned by this lot: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04782742 Small company, a few other bits on eBay which appear to all be re-branded Chinese taps. Quality may or may not be dubious, it really depends on how much care they take with their suppliers / QC.

I give good odds it's horrid Chinese CCA stuff. Can't find the actual official text of the standard for CAT5 anywhere, but everywhere I can see refers to the 2nd of the pair having a stripe.

Last similar 'repair' I did, I used half a rubber doorstop. You'll probably find the transformer is a standard metal framed wire wound thing attached to the baseplate and has a small gap at the top before the top casing. Chop a rubber doorstop in half (or thereabouts), and stuff this in the gap...

https://www.twistfix.co.uk/osmotic-power-unit From the picture, appears to be a bog-standard wallwart outputting 5v DC with a proprietary connector of some sort on the end. If the initial snake oil wasn't bad enough, they want £60 for a 50p wallwart, which should tell you a lot about their...

I'd hazard a guess that the set temperature on the stat was 16c/ 17c. Turning the dial will go up / down from the set temperature, not the current temperature :)

Had the boiler (Ferroli HE26C) serviced under contract this morning. Engineer had the case off & did some stuff inside, plus topped up the pressure very slightly (IIRC .9bar cold to 1.5bar) I haven't touched the boiler in the last 6 months minimum. Have now discovered a drip coming from the...

Bingo :) I've been floating around here for ~10 years, and the Intergas is simply the latest in a line of what some of the trades here tote as the next best thing. (Ideals, Viessmann & was even Valiants at one point) Get it serviced regularly (not just by sticking a FGA into the flue....) and...

Find a different engineerr, thus one is talking twaddle. If the internal expansion vessel is not available, an external one is almost certainly an option.

Confirm vents required I think?

And this (And certain other posters like it) is exactly where the problem is. Posting borderline abuse to posters is not the solution. I mostly agree with the no DIY gas rule, *but* most of the time, it could be put across a whole lot better. It's fine to refuse to advise, but many of the...

The nut is on a soldered elbow, and has a flange which I think is probably wider than the bottom of the plastic pipe, rather than going inside the plastic one. (I can't get the nut round the 90 degree bend so I can't measure it, but it certainly doesn't feel like it goes inside the plastic...

First, apologies for the horrid picture, but I'm sure you've seen these before... I've got a leak coming up through the threads of the white plastic bit, from the nut at the bottom (Fill valve shank??) This has been OK for nearly 8 years, and I think the bathroom is older than that. Not...

Before taking the fitting off, try with a non-energy saving bulb and see if your results differ.