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    Who is liable for further damage to boiler repair…..

    Old boilers are like old cars, you can nurse them along/look after them for so long but there comes a point when work is being carried out that the mechanic/engineer will have seized/locked components and other components will be damaged during rectification or fail soon afterwards due to the...
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    Water Hammer following Combi boiler installation

    I use the Pegler Yorkshire spring shock arrestor type, no prob's with them and don't have to worry about pressure checks
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    Boilermate!

    Hi MalH, Are you gas safe registered, if so ping one of the mods and we can help you some more with your issues otherwise its up to you to get a good gsr engineer out for this. Hope this helps but we can't give out too much advice re repairing boilers to unqualified people due to regs and some...
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    Will an external thermostat allow me to set two different temperature for water/heating?

    Is it a combi boiler or system boiler (with hot water tank) as the combi has a flow restrictor for the hot water which is dependant of model power output. If you have a mono mixer tap just turn on cold tap enough to reduce the temp as the boiler should modulate power up/down to attain max temp...
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    baxi solo 15he ignition lockout

    Condensate syphon?, seen that before either blocking/restricted draining causing flame lift or the x2 wires on top of syphon trap.
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    Halsted ace high he water too hot

    To check pump best to get cloth under and remove bleed screw at front, try the screwdriver stop test. If pump stops without issues then its work out but if chatters, chucks screwdriver back at you pump is still strong & not the issue. You need to be careful as old boiler and parts are expensive...
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    Worcester Negative Fan Pressure decrease after cleaning heat exchanger

    might be a weak fan taking into account boiler age & or check connections as through ageing can have leakage thus giving you issues. Thats the problem with older boilers, wear & tear, if rest of readings check out then you will be fine, cheers, Andy
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    90 degree bends in shower waste

    Redo if poss as you are storing up trouble in the not too distant future. Glued swept bends are best & as few as possible. As previously mentioned the setup shown is pants & can guarantee there will be issues. Can you re-orientate the shower tray, may be a longer run but with far superior flow...
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    Gas fittings are these push fit?

    Looks like press fit & ok as long as correct o ring seals are used
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    UPDATE: Plumbers apparently not meant to be going to customers homes unless emergency callout?!

    Can anyone clarify if landlord gas safety checks are suspended or not as work in social housing & it ain't pretty & constantly get grief from tenants for attending CP12 appointments booked in for me.
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    ideal straight swap for the potterton suprima to run a gledhill Boilermate 2000 ?

    Have you checked out/cleaned the potterton suprima, pretty basic setup & boiler. Sounds like the air inlet seal has perished & allowing ingress of exhaust gases into incoming air. They are quite old now & the temps around the flue turret is about 200 degree's celsius on average. To replace would...
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    Working situations ????

    I work for a housing association/social housing down here & have continued working throughout. My own work is very quiet due to age demographic of customers i work for but had a couple of emergency repairs & been fully ppe'd up for them with cleaning down before and after to keep us all safe...
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    Boiler drip after turned off

    Get it stripped & cleaned & use some plumbers mait which is a non setting compound, Goes on the threads, roll it in your hands like you used to make plastercine worms. Will seal it no probs, Trim off excess after tightening up. Job done
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    What's this valve's purpose

    Cheers Shaun, Replace or rip out as pumped central heating with separate gravity 28mm on hot water cylinder. Old floor mount boiler.
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    What's this valve's purpose

    Hi guys, Prob a very quick one for you seasoned people. Working in a customers house with old central o/v heating system. He could not get flow to the upstairs rads or extension rad which was on a drop at the end of the house. Pump was an old Grundfos selectric which was weak so replaced...
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    Reasons for lukewarm radiator?

    Also water - central heating is a lazy sod & if it can find an easy route to rtn to the boiler it will take it. I would suggest as above first that the TRV pin needs to be free to move & then if you put some tape on the non TRV side of the lounge & en-suite rads and count the turns until closed...
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    Ideal Heat 15 - repressurise

    Have you had your cylinder serviced as it requires it annually. Need a G3 registered engineer. If it's been serviced properly then that would of been sorted for you
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    Ideal logic 30 low gas rate

    Flow turbine has big say in gas being burnt as it gives flow rate signal to pcb via hall sensor. How old is boiler as turbines can get a bit cruddy depending on location after a couple/few years meaning hall sensor info to pcb may be out thus lower gas rate on DHW. You may be able to clean up a...
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    Simple and Easy-to-use Programmer

    Center brand programmable RF room stat. Have heating on constant & manual setting & control temp via x2 buttons on front. Attach card with temp's on outside, day time temp - 20 degree's & night time temp - 12 or 14 degree's celsius. As long as they don't muck around & lift flap/cover no issue's...
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    So many thermal store questions!

    Sort out your draughts & get some insulation in first before you pour money needlessly down the drain. Once them x2 issue's are sorted then move forwards wrt the water/heating. As mentioned above if your combi boiler is ok for the heating side then link it in through a decent sized unvented...

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