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- Hi, I noticed yesterday that when my HW is on, that the boiler runs constantly… I even tested this morning after it ran last night so no water usage overnight and it ran for 30 minutes before I turned it off on the controls. No dripping from Tundish. My suspicion is the thermostat in the […]
- Hello All, We have a Vaillant boiler, it has an advanced protection kit fitted that gives it a 10 year warranty. My understanding is that this is essentially a magnetic filter that captures all the deposits before the enter the boiler and contaminate it, thus invalidating your warranty. I have a Vaillant Engineer yesterday to […]
- My house has a separate central heating loop that heats an annex. The annex loop has 3 x radiators (all with TRV), pump (manually switched) and a gate valve. The gate valve is very awkwardly sited, and difficult to operate, so I am wondering whether it is a good idea to replace this with 2-port […]
- Hi all, I have added a bottle of Fernox F3 into my towel radiator upstairs, I have run the heating for a good few days now. I have bleed off points downstairs I can attach a hosepipe to drain the system. Question when all the water has drained out can I leave the hosepipe on […]
- Hi, I would like to know if a HWC can be used as a primary heat source for a new central heating system. My idea is to heat the water in the cylinder in advance for space heating, then use a circulating pump to distribute around the home in radiators. The cylinder will contain radiator […]
- I want to replace one radiator underneath the window (which is useless when it's cold and dark becuase it's behind the curtains) with one tall radiator at each side of the window. I imagined plumbing them in parallel like this. (The dark squares in the middle are where the existing pipes go into the wall.) […]
- Can anyone recommend a good quality filling loop brand? They all seem to be cheap and flimsy with plastic handles. Altechnic is ok I find, the water side is good with a nice metal handle, the heating side is poor.
- I need to replace 2 of these valve bodies & head but never come across them before, the TRV threads into the radiator thread not sure if I can remove TRV valve body from TRV and this will fit thread of radiator. Customer doesn't want to replace the radiators as they are unique seat type […]
- I've recently had a Baxi heat only boiler fitted and just noticed there is excess water coming out of the flue. I obviously will ring the company to get them back. I just wanted to get a bit of information beforehand. Can these flues be repositioned? On mine you can see the water pools forward […]
- Hi, just had a Drayton lp112 programmer fitted. Now when the hot water is programmed to come on the central heating comes on as well, even though it's not selected. Is it possible that the programmer wired wrong
- Every two weeks or so I have to go and top up the system because the hot taps are running cold. Boiler display is flashing 0.6 bar and I fill up to 1.3. I've had an engineer look inside the boiler and he can't see anything wrong. I've checked the pipes all over the house […]
- Hi folks, I would be super-grateful if you could let me know what you think of the price below: Convert from Economy 7 to gas using Worcester Greenstar 4000 30kw high efficiency combination boiler positioned in hotpress and flued horizontally through wall, with extended flue, system to include: – ▪ wireless programmable room stat ▪ […]
- Our boiler is in the loft and I encountered a leak in a roof above our side extension store room which has transpired to be from the boiler condensate pipe. It was cracked at an elbow so the plumber we use has replaced this and hopefully all will be well with that joint. This later […]
- Under a boiler replacement grant I've been offered a Baxi 418 heat only. Has anyone any experience of this model? Apparently it has an aluminium heat exchanger but a lot of parts are combined into one so maybe costly if repairs are needed. Thanks
- Hi guys, just want to get some advise, basically new vaillant regular boiler has been fitted approx 5 yrs ago, i believe it was back boiler previously. The heating worked fine till now and for some reason central heating radiators started getting hot on hot water only demand. I`ve checked 3 port valve on hw […]
- What is the boiler flow temperature required to flag this 2965 fault code?. This, I believe, is a blocking code that trips the burner but when/if it resets. the burner will refire without any boiler reset? If this fault code is up while in CH mode and there is a demand for HW, will the […]
- Hi all I need to run this CH pipework to a radiator located beyond the electric wiring in the image below. Just to be safe I was wondering if there are any rules / distances, etc I need to be following when avoiding the wiring? Many thanks. P
- Hi all I have a britony combi se 80 with fault 40 60 80 had british gas out to repair under homecare cover but they can't seem to repair it. They have been out 7 times so far and fitted a new pump heat exchanger air pressure switch and a pcb. Does anyone on here […]
- Hi, Later this year I am going away for a 2 week holiday and as the weather will be warm there is no need for the heating to be on and arguably no need for me to needlessly heat hot water. My intention was to turn the boiler off along with the mains water when […]
- I have a heating system comprised of skirting radiators that form part of a loop from the boiler, round the house and back. Some rooms get warmer than others despite closing off the skirting radiator heat vent. They are designed to house the finned heating pipe and a return pipe, the latter position being empty. […]
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