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    What paperwork should a boiler installation come with?

    Hi gents and ladies, Making the probable mistake of buying a house at present : bit of a fixer with a shoddy but recent boiler installation. Have a bit of a question for our resident gas people, if you can possibly help me out here. The vendors seem to have lost the installation invoice, but...
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    What is this thing that came with multicutter blade?

    Hi, I recently opened the packaging of a new wood cutting semicircular cutter for my Dewalt multicutter tool. As I was recycling the packaging, I came across this black piece of metal taped to the card in the packaging. I have no idea what it is for and the impression I get is that I...
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    Laugh of the day (neighbours complaining about noise)

    Neighbours complained to their landlord about the habitual drilling and grinding noises due to "building noise" at my house and he contacted me. Very polite as usual, unlike my neighbours who have been blanking me (and who also blanked my mother when she saw them out the front and wished them...
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    How long to install shower pump? Reality check required, please.

    Hi. I'm currently estimating on installing a new shower pump to feed an existing bath/shower diverter. Hot side: fit flange and spherical valve and Y strainer to old cylinder, reduce to 15 mm and to pump flexi and reconnect existing hot distributing pipe. Repair shelf in AC and fit twin...
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    "High" stat temperature on Thorn Apollo 30/50B?

    Hi, Am trying to understand my mother's Apollo boiler. It has an intermittent fault. In the last couple of years, it has had a new thermocouple, a new "low" stat, and a new pump over-run switch. The RGI was not throwing parts at it, and the replacement of these has solved some problems: I...
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    Baxi 228 combi boiler hot water flow rate poor?

    Hi, Just checking I'm not talking rot. Today I visited a house with a Baxi 228 combi boiler. The technical spec for the DHW output is shown in the image. Boiler was installed 27 months ago. Baxi is claiming 13.3 litres @ DT 30. I set the boiler DHW temperature to a high setting. I was...
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    32mm minimum size for external condensate - rule came in when?

    Hi. Was looking for a house on sale the other day and just wanted something confirmed to me... Was there ever a time when a condensing boiler could have been legally fitted, and in accordance with MIs, with a 22mm overflow used as an external condensate pipe... and with that condensate pipe...
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    Negative energy bills

    Just looked at the last two energy bills for my house and they both are for negative £9.xx. The government £400 scheme to come off bills is kicking in, but the discount applied to the bills leaves us in credit. I.e. the energy company owes us money rather than the reverse! I'm not...
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    Anyone know the kW rating of a screw-in coil?

    Anyone familiar with those nasty cylinder coils that screw into an immersion boss as a cheap and nasty way of turning a single coil cylinder into a twin coil (well, sort-of)? A customer has a slow-heating cylinder that is using one of these (surprise, surprise). Just wondered what sort of rate...
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    Can motorised valves go under floorboards (legally)?

    Hi guys and gals, I'm looking to try to change from a Y-plan to an S-plan-plus this year to have a heated bathroom. While the house isn't that large, a mixture of south-facing brick and north-facing (and Jerry-built) timber frame construction means no single thermostat will cut the muster...
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    Is this shower kettle on its last legs? White spots on kettle...

    Just looking at a Mira Jump that needs a replacement on/off button. This is in my own house, but it has made me realise I don't know what I am looking at here, and would appreciate some of this forum's collective experience. Please... Internally all looks in good order with no evidence of...
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    Advantage of unvented cylinder outweigh the disadvantages?

    I have come to my decision I might as well do my G3, even if only for maintenance jobs. Question I have is WHY we are fitting so many of these unvented cylinders i.e. 27 gallons /117l size or above (I'm not disputing the need for 10l unvented 'cylinders'). They 'need' annual servicing by a G3...
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    Do I need G3 to repair a 10l unvented cylinder?

    Hi. Potential customer has a leaking 10l Ariston Europrisma cylinder. Probably just a flange gasket or the magnesium anode needs replacing. While I feel this is easily the sort of task I can tackle as I am very good at mending things, I get the impression I'd need my G3 to install such a...
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    Need help understanding Honeywell T4 thermostat optimisation

    I've tried to email Honeywell, but their web address is playing up and they aren't receiving. Unfortunately Honeywell is extremely poor at providing explanations even when I found the firm's online explanatory PDF that tried to explain what Honeywell means. Anyone had an answer that answers...
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    What do you think?

    Okay. So I have a ground floor shop and second floor flat for sale (potentially). No major need to get shot of them, but not a lot of point having them empty. I was practically born in that flat but no point being sentimental if I'm not intending to stay in Italy (except as a Brexit...
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    Geberit 110.700 series won't flush on small flush button

    Hi, My aunt asked me to have a look at her Geberit cistern which recently has suddenly stopped flushing on the short flush button. Long flush works normally as far as I can tell. This is the flush mechanism (the label suggests PN 7074-98) , please excuse the mess: Took the whole thing...
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    "Main" (Baxi) 24HE A Heat only boiler temperature setting

    Hi. Bored and wondering about a friend's boiler that was fitted a few years ago and that, having been involved with the heating system, I take an interest in. One of these jewels...
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    The idea of balancing a system is to try and get the pressure drop of all circuits equal to that of the index circuit.

    Hi. Just trying to get my head around how this relates to the temperature drop across the circuit. Not disputing that the two are related (obviously we measure temperature as that is easier) but I don't understand the process. This came up on another thread and I didn't want to sidetrack the...
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    Is this ridiculous (boiler serviced and flame adjusted with flue buried in snow)?

    The boiler downstairs was serviced (not to be confused with the one with the gas leak - this is a separate boiler). The chap said the flame was not burning that well and so he readjusted it. All seemed well. Today I looked up at the house. Given that the downstairs boiler is never used...
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    Brexit

    So how are we getting on then? Are people being affected on a personal level? Any materials shortages, price changes etc? For me, I'm in Italy - and now my UK licence isn't valid over here. Been told as I'm officially resident in Italy that if I want to drive while I'm here I'd need to take...

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