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    Toilet flush valve seals - unusual sizing

    Hello, Recently I received an unusually large water bill which led me to the discovery of leaking flush valves. I have two toilets and it turned out in both the valve seals were bubbling so I set out to replace them. For now I just flipped them over as the other side was smooth on both. The...
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    Johnson & Starley J25-32 Mk3 - How to open fan chamber door

    Hi Chalky, I tried back when you posted the instructions but failed miserably. It wouldn't budge. Today Janus water heater was suspiciously frequently turning on in this scorching weather even though no hot water was used at all. I decided to try again so that I could at least turn it off...
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    Johnson & Starley J25-32 Mk3 - How to open fan chamber door

    Hello, I'm trying to get into J25-32 Mk3 Modairflow (click for image) to give it a bit of a clean and remove corpses of bumblebees which at some point were trying to make it their home. The manual says: I removed the air filter no problem but how to remove that fan chamber door? I tried to...
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    How to top up Stelrad Ideal boiler? Mystery hose...

    Hello fellas! A gas engineer has visited and I'm sure you are dying to learn what happened. It turns out the PCB was fried. It's been replaced and it's nice and toasty again. He also added some air to the expansion tank and issued a warning for that hot water fountain sticking out at the top...
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    How to top up Stelrad Ideal boiler? Mystery hose...

    Cheers for having a look. That was my thought initially that it may be hidden behind the top panel. There are screws inside the drawer that seem to keep the front panel from sliding off. The pipes going to the right are leading to radiators, nothing exciting there, the skinny pipe that comes...
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    How to top up Stelrad Ideal boiler? Mystery hose...

    Hello boiler junkies! Below is the beast I'm dealing with. The heating suddenly stopped so I went to investigate and discovered that the system was low on pressure. But how to top up? The previous boiler I had to take care of was attached to a small cylinder, you just needed to flick a couple...
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