recently installed a ecotec plus 831, 1 week later customer found there is leaking under the boiler, i opened it, looks the cold water inlet is leaking, called vaillant service line, booked a service, they texted me a guy would call me before 9am to confirm when they came, but did not call, the...
Hi I am thinking about treating myself to a power flush unit. I never had one before, what one do u recommend and what chemicals. I seen a few used ones on eBay but if it busts half way through the first job it's just a waste of cash. I keen looking at the kamco 40 £1000 + 300 for the magnet...
Any of you lads specialists in after hour call outs ?
Something I have always been against but her indoors reckons their is a market in it , I have on occasions gone out and earned good money from this work however am losing serious interest in bigger installs and enjoying doing plenty of...
Hey guys,
Just Wondering who has come from an office job and is now plumbing?
Do you think it was the right decision?
What do you like/dislike about it?
Cheers
Hi all, I would appreciate an opinion from any professional plumbers on the price of a job.
I had a issue with the central heating on a house (rads not all getting hot) which required a clean and flush which was done by a local plumber, the amount of hours it has taken and associated cost...
Hi there,
I am a newbie to this site, so apologies if this posting has found its way to the wrong place.
I had an under sinkwater heater ( Europrisma 10 ltr 2kw) fitted to a refurbished one bed rental ground floor flat. The cold feed was within a metre of the position of the heater and it DID...
Phillips wife
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Hey there, had some unfortunate problems with a local plumber.
We needed a new oil tank fitting, and as my partners father is a builder, he recommended us a plumber and sourced us a tank, cement for new base, and any other parts that were needed to install said tank.
The plumber came on...
I have a 10 year old Worcester-Bosch Greenstar 30 HE combi running 7 radiators in a 3 bedroom semi. All pipework and radiators were new with boiler.
Even after putting pressure back up to 1 to 1.5 bar while cold, I find within an hour or so it’s back to zero. The heating system seems to...
Glosguy
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Getting countless calls from agents' all after contractors for BG, are they finding difficult to get people to contract to them ? after experienced engineers who know about BB, & Y / S plans !
Hi - I have had a bit of a bad day! My old Grundfos UPS 15-50 130 pump has been making horrendous noises for months (always worse in colder weather), so I decided to finally get around to replacing it with a new one of the exact same model that I have had stored in the cupboard. I got this new...
tigershoot
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Hi guys. I wondered if I could share some of your wisdom? I've been self employed straight from college for 6months now and everyday is a school day at the minute! I've just visited a job tonight and its replacing a cracked shower tray, its going to be a right pain in the backside, in a self...
Hi all,
i'm seeking advice on a bill I've received. My partner calle out an oil heating engineer as the boiler had locked out. The engineer visited and took 20 mins to discover there was no oil in the tank as it had been stolen overnight. The next day he returned to bleed and prime the boiler...
Benjaminsbarn
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theres still some big forum contributers out there who havent signed up you know who you are.
and also a couple of you who said your in but still havent sent me any address details.
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would you allow to change a radiator, adjust pipework replace drain off and change and wire in a 2 port valve.
Gravity system slow to refill, stuff in front of rads, van parked 3 mins away.
Just need an idea??
PS guess i could have frozen the pipework and put on 2 full bore valves but.......
Hi. Over the past two weeks we have been woken in the middle of the night 4-6am with a strange noise I can only describe as whistling and it is coming in the direction of the boiler, we have tried turning the hot water off (set to come on 5:20 to 6:20 so the noise starts before it actually comes...
jeacthm
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Just bought a house with above boiler which has a history of regular servicing (last six months ago). When I moved in gas was shut off at the meter and electrics to boiler turned off. I turned on the gas at meter and checked to see if the counter was revolving to check for obvious leaks. It...
wrf12345
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Hi,
Just seen the solar thermal tariff's been announced as 19.2 p per kwh produced.
Is there a way of calculating this or is it just based on house / system size ?
thanks
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