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A home appliance, also referred to as a domestic appliance, an electric appliance or a household appliance, is a machine which assists in household functions such as cooking, cleaning and food preservation.
Appliances are divided into three types:

small appliances;
major appliances, or white goods;
and consumer electronics, or brown goods.This categorization is reflected in the maintenance and repair of these types of products. Brown goods typically require high technical knowledge and skills (which get more complex with time, such as going from a soldering iron to a hot-air soldering station), while white goods may need more practical skills and force to manipulate the devices and heavy tools required to repair them.

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  1. K

    Gas appliances manuals

    Am I the only one struggling to find appliances' manuals online? I know it's hard enough with cookers and old gas fires but I've just been unable to find the manual for an Ideal Exclusive. I thought I had found it but it turns out the GC number was different. Given the law says "refer to MI"...
  2. L

    Toilet running intermittently

    Why is my upstairs toilet running when i switch the tap on or washer/ dishwasher on downstairs?
  3. OffshoreGas

    Warranty repairs of heating appliances

    Being quite new a new company we haven’t had to deal with many warranty repair issues. We’ve just investigated and referred the customer to the manufacturers contact the couple of times it’s come up. Who actually gets this warranty work? Does the manufacturer do themselves? Can installers by...
  4. M

    Capping gas appliances?

    hi guys. When capping off an existing appliance such as a hob or oven. If the pipe work is concealed by the units do you normally cap of with compression or ef? Do you normally try to trace pipe back to tee to avoid long dead legs on the gas carcass? Purge points are being mentioned to me but...
  5. M

    Training when adding gas appliances

    Can I ask when other people have added gas appliances to their gas ticket. When you did the assessment, did you do any of the optional training the test centres offer? Thanks for any insight.
  6. T

    tips for a new vaporising appliances

    Hi everyone, I've been an oily engineer for over 10years now but have recently added vaporising burners to my qualifications. I'm just after some tips for working on Aga's etc (I know experience and knowledge takes time), and also any tools etc that might be handy. Any help would be greatly...
  7. Inverness

    Passed My ccn1 and my appliances today!

    Now the proper learning begins.
  8. JLS

    Gas rating appliances

    Still training so unable to post this in the GSR forum but I don't think it contravenes the no advice about repairs rule, my apologies if I'm wrong. Question is what's the rational of taking readings over a two minute period for a metric meter when one sweep of an imperial meter can be about 40...
  9. C

    Re-Using Flue Liners for other appliances

    Can anyone confirm if chimney flexi flue liners can be used on different gas appliances? i.e remove the flue pipe from an open flued gas boiler and fit gas fire in its place, utilising the existing flexi flue liner and chimney pot? I know you cant use a gas flue liner for a solid wood...
  10. Robert Tyrrell

    No data labels on appliances

    Good morning to you all. Went to a job yesterday for a landlord customer of mine and found that there's no data at all on the gas fire or the boiler. Don't know what make/model the fire is but it's a LFE type with a brass surround. The boiler is a Potterton Suprima that's years old, and the flue...
  11. C

    New house move, two appliances one water source

    Hi, I have one water supply and i want to run two appliances, a dish washer and a washing machine. The parts i have been looking at using are. Compression appliance tee from screw fix and a twin waste adapter from amazon, Would i need anything else ? Any advice on getting the ball...
  12. M

    Local isolation requirement for appliances

    Having a brain fade moment guys - is it an actual requirement to have an isolation valve for individual gas appliances, or just good practice? I'm certain it's a requirement but I can't find evidence to back it up. Someone is arguing that If the ECV is within easy reach it's just good practice...
  13. C

    All bathroom appliances connected to the pump???

    Hello, I recently had a situation after a plumber came and did a job for me. He connected the water pipes through the toilet,basin and the shower. I was bringing another plumber and asked two more if the pump should be connected through the toilet and the basin too and they said no. I want to...
  14. D

    Gas

    Hi, we had a new boiler installed about 18 months ago, since then we have had to call a gas registered plumber out to help with some central heating issues. During this time he did a gas test involving all our gas appliances which resulted in him saying that there wasn't enough gas getting to...
  15. B

    todays nightmare,post the most difficult appliances to work on

    i do service work for bfm europe,had this one today as repair,all this to change a pcb,and the glass is a pig to get back in took 2 hours and i have worked on loads,log assembly and glass removed for clarity ATTACH=CONFIG]25633[/ATTACH]
  16. A

    Gas Safety Checks Advise.

    Hi To All Seniors.. I'm Posting This Thread .. as I was Reading This on Gas Safe Website and it really confused me. I Usually while doing LandLords checks Take Gas Fire Out and Check the Smoke Test and Spillage test even though its Proper Blue Crispy flame.. Am I doing Over work or Doing Right ...
  17. Chalked

    Good example of why we test with appliances connected.

    Brand new Vaillant system boiler. New build house with inset gas Fire,cooker and boiler. 10mb drop! last thing I isolated was the boiler.
  18. M

    Traceable gas appliances?

    Hi all. I'm just wondering whether gas appliances are traceable? I.e where it was purchased or sold. A guy wants me to do a job but he's gotta supply everything. I'm not comfortable with it. Any advice? I know at grahams and screwfix you need your gas safe number so I would assume if an...
  19. S

    maximum number appliances off 22mm cold mail

    Specing some light commercial ,how many toilets sinks can you normally get off a 22mm cold main,cannot download anything with PDF,as pc is buggering up,when would you upgrade to a 28 mm main. The building is a small club,with instantenious under sink heaters,no big unvented,or baths.
  20. N

    Regulations??

    Can someone tell me the regs/legislation in ref to. A new build that has not yet been commisioned by a Gas Safe engineer but landlord has moved tenants in regardless????
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