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Hello. My 24i (natural gas, about 6 years old) has lost all hot water. CH is fine. It happened suddenly, no flashing lights, no lights at all. No leaks, good gas and water pressure. Suggestions from the manual: harness, pcb or turbine. The pcb was replaced a couple of years ago. I'm a competent...

I've been told by a plumber that the reason my pressure keeps dropping (I have to top up 3-4 times a day, is due to a leaky expansion vessel. I've pumped air in, but pressure drops again. I've looked for spare part on web, but can't find exact number from handbook...8716 105 545 0, but I was...

I moved into a house last summer that has a new combi boiler with a good pressure, but also an electric shower that was never very good, slow flow if you wanted it good and hot, made by MX (Inspiration 8.5). A plumber who was working in our house suggested that a thermostatic mixer would be...

I have recently moved into a house which has a new combi boiler. There is also an electric shower fitted, not the type with a pump, just a white box on the wall. The shower unit doesn't work, and I always thought that they were incompatable with combi boilers anyway. So, since we have good...

I'm replacing a section of very messy copper pipework leading to my kitchen sink with plastic, and replacing the taps. I'm using plastic tap adapters, straight into plastic pipework. The old taps are currently earth bonded to the copper, but since the new configuration won't include copper...

I'm fitting a dimmer switch in the kitchen for under cupboard lights. The supply is independent of other lighting circuits, I've picked up from a spur switch that previously supplied the boiler, now re-located. So I have my twin and earth coming in from the spur, a twin and earth heading off...

Angle grinder? I have 2 jobs to do, one is chasing in electrics, the other is building a small, low wall in the garden. I suspect that an angle grinder would be helpful with the chasing, and indespensible for the brick cutting. My problem is that I have a very limited budget, and I doubt...

Our kitchen is being re-configured to allow for new furnishings. I have 2 questions: A fused spur exists just below ceiling height, it used to provide power to a boiler, but the boiler is now elsewhere, the spur is not connected to any appliance. I would like to introduce 2 socket outlets...

Hello, I'm boarding and insulating my loft to use for storage only. I will be storing a lot of books and other paper, as well as the usual junk, so I am to insulate the rafters not the joists. I have found 'wool' to be quite messy in the past, it leaves a deposit, it probably over performs for...

I have to wallpaper several ceilings, for the first time in my life. Are there any special rules? Should I overlap onto walls? Should I turn the corner down to the picture rail, or should I cut an overlap and a second piece for the wall above the picture rail? Please help! :shock:

I wish to store quite a lot of paper artefacts, drawings and books in the loft of my house. To try to make the loft environment less extreme, I've thrown out the previously installed joist rockwool in favour of a rafter insulation. I have seen rockwool slabs, foil-backed bubblewrap, and...

I'm adding 6 60w bulkhead lights around the loft. I have read manuals etc and consequently wired them in parallel ( I think). So red goes into first light terminal and out again and onto light 2. Same with black, into other first light terminal and out to light 2. Same pattern for the rest...