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My renewal is over £500 for £2,000,000 cover. Domestic plumbing, heating and gas. Nothing unusual or nitch. Never made a claim, excess £1000. 20yrs with same insurer does this sound about right? How much should i be paying, current quoter originally recommended by institute of plumbing. Cheers.
My boiler was installed in July 2021. As my boiler is in garage, I didn't notice how it sounded when it started. A few weeks ago, when the boiler just started, by chance I went to garage looking for something, I heard the boiler was very loud! Much louder than when it is in operation for a...
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I have a Vokera Excel 29 gas boiler which is losing pressure. I need to drain the boiler in order to repressurise the expansion vessel back to 1 bar. Can anyone explain how to drain this boiler?
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Vaillant ecotec boiler loses pressure when hot water is on and does not work. But heating is working fine with normal pressure . Help plz
Hello all! First post on here. I'm newly qualified - could anyone tell me if there is an absolute minimum acceptable gas inlet pressure at the boiler? I understand refer to MIs, make sure it's safe and not affecting any other appliances, but if it's below manufacturers recommendation, correct at...
Hi just been to check a family members boiler and I’m getting just over 25mbar working pressure at the meter and 22mbar inlet pressure at the boiler. Standing pressure is 29mbar and done a tightness test and that is all fine. Also did a gas rate and it’s only only showing as 22kw and the boiler...
Hi all, just this morning seem to have a new problem to us with our Rayburn. Oven and central heating all operating as normal, however we have no hot water from any taps. We would normally hear the Rayburn kick in when hot water is demanded… however it is not.
Any help hugely appreciated
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The day before yesterday early morning (23rd of Jan) the temperature was very low, about -7C, so before that, I set timer to start CH for 6-8am to prevent the cold weather freezing the boiler. BUT, by 6:40am I woke up and didn't hear the pump noise. I went to see the timer which was not...
Hi Morning, I am looking at a new boiler and hot water cylinder setup for a house I am refurbishing and am getting conflicting advice on my question: Can I use a Combi or System boiler to have a different flow temperature for the hot water tank heater and the radiators. I appreciate the hw...
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I am having an on-going battle with my energy supplier trying to get a smart gas meter.
I have a Landis &gyr installed which was a replacement for a faulty meter about 3 years ago. The installer at the time told me it was not a Smart meter.
The energy company is insisting its a SMETS1 -...
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I have a strange fault with a Vaillant EcoTec combi-boiler.
It's 100% reliable whenever the heating is called for, ie. by the room-stats.
It's also 100% reliable when hot water is called for, ie. hot tap or shower, as long as the heating isn't running at the time. But if the heating is already...
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My boiler was kind of new & installed last year July, I know there's build-in frost protection.
Also, there's an old external frost protection (attached photo) that the engineer did not disconnect it when installed the new boiler. I wonder if I need to disconnect/get rid of the old...
Hello, I've got a job where all 24 Trac Pipe connections in a meter room are unwrapped with protective tape, and i've no idea howe many rolls of tape that will get through as i've only used the stuff once. Just after a rough guide really, some pipes have had the sleeve trimmed back a bit more...
Inexplicably a wok gas hob on my cooker is stuck - I have been unable to pull it out even with a crowbar (I kept the tension exerted to reasonable levels).
That wok hob has never worked properly, i.e. the flame that came out of it when the cooker was brand new, was too weak for proper...
Vaillant Ecotec Pro 24. Hi all, we are having issues with hot water as it only stays hot for a few minutes for the taps and shower. You can visibly see the temp on the boiler drop from about 67 for 42 within a few minutes. We removed Mira thermostatic bar and the water remains hot but as soon...
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I recently had an IC Economiser Combi 35 installed with piping upgraded from 15mm to 22mm. A different engineer (ie not the one who installed it) came out today to address a pump overrun issue and, in addition to flagging up a couple of settings which were still on factory default and a...
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I was previously a member of this forum about 7 years back but lost my login details so started again!
I moved abroad and packed in the gas for a couple of years and then returned to the UK and went to Uni to be a teacher.
After realising teaching is a massive headache I want to get...
Heating works and hot water- sometimes, but I noticed when I turn the hot tap on the pressure gauge drops to zero.
I've not seen this before. Topping up the pressure doesn't seem to make a difference. As soon as the heating only is on pressure goes back up to 1.5bar.
The thing is the flat is...
Hi everyone,
I've weirdly had two small kind of commercial decommission jobs come in today and i dont do this stuff much. At some point I've had every ticket going but as I don't have a good memory or the time to look it up right now.
I was hoping one of you guys could just shoot some answers...
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