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3 824 question, bit of a poll really.
Apart from this site being TOTALLY SWAMPED with so many adverts one cannot access it properly, here's my lovely question, should I ever be able to read it. The good old 842, this one's an eco max, got called out to CH not working but DHW is, Now I done the normal, the div was shot, so changed...
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Understanding floor heating settings/controls
Hi, I have a new built house with the following floor heating manifold: https://www.robotclimate.com/media/amasty/amfile/attach/c9864db4135c6f26c6d9e41254816317.pdf In particular, I have the "District Heating PRO manifold" (Section 3.2). I also have district heating, and PVC floor. I have some...
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Conversion to all electric
We are moving and want to convert the house over to fully electric and later possibly some solar panels. The house currently has warm air heating and the hot water is via tank and immersion heater. Do not want warm air so looking to future proof the place and spend a bit of money as the house is...
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Central Heating noise on ignition and when turning off
Hi, thx in advance if anyone has any ideas I've got a Worcester Bosch combi with Hive thermostat. Whenever the central heating turns on I get a beep like a gameshow buzzer, and then little rumble. Does the same when turning off. Never does this for just hot water. I had British Gas come out a...
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Bleeding a system with an automatic valve (but gurgling pipes)
My central hot water heating system has developed a very loud gurgle every time the heat comes on, so clearly has quite a bit of air in the system. It has a Taco Hy-vent automatic valve above the tank in the utility room and no bleeder valves elsewhere in the system. Should I just replace the...
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Bolier pressure - Central ceating issue
Hi, I noticed the pressure this morning on my boiler was just below 1bar so I went to top it up, opened the loop and it just managed to hit over 1bar then just stopped increasing. Now the central heating looks like its on but all the radiators are luke warm even when temperature is 70 degress...
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stuck in cooling mode
My air/water heat pump is stuck in cooling mode. For whatever reason it's parameters have changed to cooling only and turned itself to standby mode. I can't change the parameter now and the machine wont let me turn it on. Any Ideas?
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Odd Vitodens 200W Combi symptoms, fan spins up 100%, even in standby
Conditions: nearly 10 year old boiler WB2B, heating mode off, DHW on or also in standby, Boiler shows no fault LED on, no new fault logged, room thermostat deactivated. Boiler gets odd attacks of suddenly turning on the fan 100%, then (gas valve and ignition are clicking?) potentially tries to...
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Glow worm Flexicom 30cx brief cutout
Hi all, got the above boiler that was installed in the house back in 2009 before we moved in in 2017. The boiler works as it should, it heats up the hot water and the radiators fine and everything is balanced. however it has started to act rather strange with the heating on. The boiler will...
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Glow Worm Ultimate 30 C hot water but no heating.
Hi everyone, hope you're all well and hopefully someone will be able to help with a problem I have. The boiler seems to fire up with heating no problem at the start of a program but will randomly stop heating. There are no error codes on the boiler and the thermostat (Climapro 2RF) shows no...
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Why so little information about b/f gas convector room heaters?
I reckon if I did a survey of 100 heating engineers, asking what would they recommend for heating a granny annexe being built onto the side of my house, in place of the garage, most would give me a suggestion to put in a) an extension to the existing boiler rad circuit & electric water heaters...
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Combi-boiler making whirring sound. Pressure valve going up and down
Hi all. Our Ideal Isar combi boiler wasn't igniting, so we had a plumber come out during the week to fix it. He said it was a dirty spark electrode (at least I think that's what he called it), so he fixed it and the boiler started working again. However, since then our water doesn't get...
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Central heating won't turn off
Hi having the same issues currently with back boiler, so far 2 different gas engineers have changed programmer and syncron motor to no avail although programmer change resulted in temporary fix. Coming back tomorrow to check it.
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Honeywell ST6400C clicking and flashing
Honeywell ST6400C Hi, my Honeywell timer is flashing and clicking when both water and heating switched to auto or on together. And nothing works. Works if one or the other on. Believe 3 port on way out, makes a racket changing over. I’ve ordered one and changing over tomorrow. Just want to...
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Boiler making loud noises recently
Hi All, my boiler starts to make some loud noises recently when running (a sound file is attached). A gas engineer will come around sometime next week. In the meantime, appreciate any advices on what could be the cause. Thanks very much!
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Oil v's Night Rate Elec
Hey, Looking for peoples thoughts.... Delivered kWhr cost of Kerosene is 13 or 14 cents (probably higher with an old oil burner like mine). I'm stuck for space for an air source heat pump / only have an enclosed yard for outdoor unit and i'd be looking at an install cost of 15k to 20k by the...
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Fit control knob to ideal combi 24
Ideal combi 24 knob for off/hw/heating/reset needs replacing. I have new one but cannot work out where the spring fits in the new knob
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Battery powered RF thermostat receiver OR thermostat with auxiliary temperature sensor?
Hi, I would really appreciate your help with this issue. I'm looking a wireless boiler thermostat with a receiver that is battery powered, or a battery powered thermostat that can read a wireless temperature sensor. The problem that i'm trying to solve is that my current thermostat is located...
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Groaning sound, Knocking pipes.
This is regarding the hot water, but I didn't have a clue where else to post it. We live in a 22 year old Barratt house, we have lived here since new. The start of last year, we had to have our hot water cylinder replaced as it started leaking (closed system). Because it was a different make...
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URGENT ITEMS FOR SALE BILLERICAY
Velocity Rogue 5.0 for sale plus testo 760-1 digital multimeter. I purchased the bag 2nd hand (I’ve never used it) and the Testo new after completing gas course. £100 for both. Please email me if interested
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