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    URGENT Sani Compact gives off gas odor

    Sanicompact C4 SFA Saniflo 120 V Sanicompact Recently installed this unit and gas odor is strong when flushing, have replaced part F but odor persists. What can be done to fix this?
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    URGENT Gas safety certificates

    Hi all gas engineers. While doing landlord’s gas safety , if gas hob do not have data badge or manual . How can we test it for safe to use ??
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    Cant gas rate new boiler

    Just fitted a new boiler for customer have gone to gas rate when commissioning and batteries are dead in gas meter. Gas supplier won’t come out until 6th Jan. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do? Customer obviously needs heating and hot water over Christmas
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    Cutting gas pipe under floor board

    Evening all, So I had an eventful day yesterday, was asked to replace some floor boards as they had rotten out, set my depth on my circular to 20mm just about 1mm more than needed, on my first cut I managed to nick two heating pipes and the gas pipe. After isolating the gas rather quick and...
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    Nest not connecting to Heatlink, smell a little gas around boiler

    Hi we came home this afternoon to our Nest not connecting to the Heatlink and we can smell a little gas around Vaillant Ecotec plus 630. Tried a number of times to get the nest to connect to the heatlink, but it will not. We can use the heatlink override to get heating and hot water on, but...
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    British Gas 330+ Boiler On The Blink

    Greetings All One Week Before Christmas, Ok got this British Gas 330+ my late mother had installed 10 years ago. Been working OK ish up till now then suddenly hell freezes over. First the Central heating wont come on (green light)afternew batteries from the WF Hall Thermo Wireless...
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    Low gas rate on Worcester Greenstar Junior 28i

    Hoping someone can give me advice with this one. At an annual gas service today I found a Worcester Greenstar Junior 28i to be using only running at around 12kW on high when carrying out the gas rate. The CO readings were where they should be, fan speed was okay and inlet working pressure was...
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    Gas Appliance tube size

    Good afternoon. I got a new Mapress gas installation in my catering business. All end points are 1/2" the main tubing is 32mm. Some appliances have 3/4" hoses connected by previous owners /installers, although their inner tubing is 1/2" too - including the 6 burner/ 1 oven range cooker. Does...
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    Sudden increase in gas usage/consumption

    Hi. My gas usage suddenly increased massively overnight. I'm not talking about the cost, but the actual usage. Below shows how long I had the heating on and what the gas usage was in kWh: Date | heating duration | usage (kWh) 16/11/22 | 2h 18m | 15.64 kWh 17/11/22 | 2h 51m | 16.81 kWh 18/11/22...
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    Why has Meter reading quadrupled after Gas Check on Vaillant Boiler?

    I recently had a gas safety certificate check done by and my Vaillant Ecotec Pro24 boiler serviced/checked. However a month later and after taking a meter reading it showed that the amount used had nearly quadrupled since the previous month with no change in usage. Hot water is only set at 50...
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    DHW SETTINGS on Gas Boiler

    Why are there options for setting time periods for DHW? If set for 24hours, ie 24/7 won’t the boiler simply turn on .. on demand?…no need for time periods! What am I not seeing?
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    Gas Boiler DHW demand

    Why is there a choice in choosing time periods for DHW on gas boilers?….Why not having DHW ‘on’ 24hours/day. Isn’t the boiler switched on only on DHW demand ?…hence no need for setting time intervals for DHW.
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    Is it worth adding a magnetic filter to an older gas boiler?

    I have an old (~2006) Potterton powermax boiler. It's a gas system boiler with a small unvented cylinder in one small package, in a flat. Because of the location in the flat it's going to be very difficult or maybe impossible to replace so I want to try to get it to last as long as possible. In...
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    British Gas 330 boiler modulating protocol

    Hi all, Just moved into a house with a British Gas 330 boiler and would like to fit a modulating smart thermostat. Does anyone know what modulation protocol it uses? I've googled, checked the manufacturer's website ( Glowworm ) but with no luck. Boiler ID GC 41-047-75 Thanks!
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    Gas Engineers - charge out rates - West Midlands

    Hi All My husband and I are re looking at the finances for the business and I wanted to ensure the company still remains competitive with prices charged. So I was wondering what roughly everyone charges as a day rate around Birmingham/West Midlands Experience over 15 years, gas and plumbing...
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    Gas leak on non threaded side of flared propane fitting

    Hi there, I'm building a propane system inside a van and I used flared connections. I'm getting 2 leaks from the side of the nut where the copper tube comes out (not the threaded/flared side). What could be a reason for this? I assume I need to redo the flare... or is there something else I...
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    2 gas fires in a divided room?

    Just had a call from my 94 year old aunt (lives on south coast) Today had a annual gas service. Many years ago very large room dividend in two plastered stud wall pair of doors in middle doors never opened (but could be) Gas fire in each room, engineer has disconnected one fire saying you...
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    Zone valve and gas bills

    Hi all I have been noticing that my gas bills have been excessively high even in the current climate …I did a little investigating and found my unvented heating system only has one 2 port zone valve controlling the hot water. My question is could this be what is causing the high bills as there...
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    Fun with inconsistent gas tests results

    Good'ay Wondering what I have been doing wrong or what I should be doing differently. Have had some jobs lately where I will carry out a gas test on residential work and it will fail, I will isolate stove, hwu and any bayonet connections and still fail, I can do up to 6 testes on one job and...
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    Replacing a motorized gas control valve with manual

    Replacing a remote gas control valve with its manual equivalent. My daughter has a gas coal effect fire. First, I know they're crap, she'll just use it for the occasional time that friends come round. OK, so it has a remote (broken), a remote receiver (broken) and a motorised gas control...

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