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Had a minor disaster with an old tin of white emulsion paint ! Fortunately I was outside the house, took off the lid to give the paint a stir. The tin had rusted internally and a large hole appeared, allowing a quantity of paint onto the patio and my shoes. It was quite a mess, but swift action...

I know thermostatic radiator valves are customarily on the radiator inflow side, but is there a good reason for this, or could one equally well go on the outflow side ?

If you have an old system, maybe twenty years old or more, my advice would be to inspect the radiators for incipient leaks. You need to use a small mirror and examine the bottom of the radiator surface next to the wall. Not just the seam, but the water bearing channel above it. Look for strange...

Like most folk, I have several bank and credit cards with different Pin Numbers. Recently I got muddled as to which code applied to which card, and as a result (after three wrong attempts) my credit card was blocked. I didn't really know what to do about it, but I asked around and was advised...

I have an aging gas boiler and a fully-pumped heat-only system. It works well, in the sense that with the boiler thermostat at maximum the radiators can just disperse all the heat, so there's no short cycling. I'm under pressure to get a modern modulating boiler, but my concern is this ...

In the next year I need to replace my Glow-worm Fuelsaver gas boiler with a modern wall-hung condensing boiler.The system is fully pumped and open vented, and has pump and all controls separate from the boiler. My problem is that there is a huge choice of models and makes, and warranties that...

Found the upstairs toilet floor with about a centimeter of water, turned out that the cistern was dripping due to a crack. Fortunately the feed pipe had a tap, so I was able to turn it off and empty the cistern before removing it. I hadn't done anythng to it since buying the house twenty years...

Some years ago a bought a flat with an underground garage directly below. It had underfloor electric heating and electrical devices such as automated curtains, and the garage had some large switches for a workbench. The electricity bills could be quite high but they were also very variable, some...

I was thinking of asking a £orgi plumber to install a new boiler for me so as to meet current regulations, and I was expecting a few daft but unavoidable things like fitting a 22mm gas pipe. But I was surprised that he wants to fit three thermostatic valves on upstairs radiators, to comply with...

The fan on my Glow-worm Fuelsaver 45F boiler is getting a bit noisy and I was thinking of replacing it. The number on the fan is 403077 and although it is a glow-worm type of number, I haven't managed to trace it on the net. For the 45F there are fan numbers like 417135. Does anyone know...