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Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate zones. It occurs between autumn and spring. The tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter, and some use a definition based on weather.
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. In many regions, winter brings snow and freezing temperatures. The moment of winter solstice is when the Sun's elevation with respect to the North or South Pole is at its most negative value; that is, the Sun is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the pole. The day on which this occurs has the shortest day and the longest night, with day length increasing and night length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.
The earliest sunset and latest sunrise dates outside the polar regions differ from the date of the winter solstice and depend on latitude. They differ due to the variation in the solar day throughout the year caused by the Earth's elliptical orbit (see earliest and latest sunrise and sunset).
I have an outside tap that is connected via a pipe from under my kitchen sink through the wall to the garden side, the pipe that connects into the tap is copper with a platic grey corrogated coat on it, the other morning I came downstairs and the grey corrogated pipe has come away from the tap...
zee
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Hi all,
Got a ferroli optimax 31hc combi conrolled by a solus wireless stat, Turned the stat off to go away for the weekend just got back to find the ch on with the stat turned off!! The green light light was on the reciver box.
Turned the boiler off and on again,Then tried turning the stat...
Daveandgail
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oh dear! what a week on-call! Have had the busiest week ever with loads of burst pipes and have had to help out with boiler breakdowns.
Now every frozen condense pipe ive done this week is from the Worcester Greenstar range. 22mm frozen, 1 1/4 frozen all different lengths (its been quite...
GreenArmy
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I've been looking through the minefield of training centres and am still no closer to finding the right one. I'm in South East Cornwall and a lot of these places are quite a way away. The local colleges are for people in the trade only so it's going to have to be a commercial training centre...
Steve_P
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I have been advised by two plumbers but both say different things. I paid one £500 to do some work which was ok but I still have a problem. Can anyone here help me please so I can decide which of these guys is right?
I have a regular boiler which I believe is open flue. I have a thermostat on...
idkwia
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Reply I a VRT 360 (same instructions as 360F) and have read the forums and handbook back to front and inside out. Theres 2 controls I just cant understand: Within the installer...
arlester
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I have a E tech s 240 boiler that was installed in my 3 year old flat.The boiler is connected to a Salus EP100 programmer. It's a tank in tank, electric, unvented thermal store system, as far as I can gather from reading online.
We can only get the boiler and it's built in tank to heat up if...
peedah1
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Hi all, first post on the forum, appreciate all your help and advice, so many thanks in advance gents... and lasses!
About to fit an external bib tap outside my Kitchen tomorrow but am a little confused/concerned about the wall plate elbow I have been provided with...
You see the water inlet...
MrBusagain
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My 3rd post in a few days but gone a bit energy consumption crazy. Have just checked the gas meter readings over one (and a bit) day and it was 158kwh, costing £5.53. We have had the boiler on all day from 9am until 11pm for central heating, and hot water on but the hot water for the boiler...
ma701ss
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I have a heatline c24 condensing boiler.central heating works fine at 85'c,hot water will work at 65'c,but only if i reduce cold water flow rate to 40% of mains pressure,any higher and hot water is luke warm.any idea what the fault is at the moment it takes half an hour to run a bath.
Have...
stevep
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Hello all,
I am a newbie in this forum and would greatly appreciate guidance on my question below.
I have a choice of carrying out a minor repair on my 20 year old 20k btu Baxi
gas system boiler, or replacing it with a new higher efficiency one.
What sort of level of saving is...
Andy Wills
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Normally I do domestic boiler related work but doing a job on a Creche at the moment. There are 18 rads, 16 of them doubles, run by an RDB4 burner and a Firebird 250 if memory serves me right. The puzzling thing is there is only a normal domestic 3 head grunfoss circulating pump installed. I...
BoilerPro
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Hello,
Season's greetings to all. We have a macerator in our loft and are careful not to overload the toilet with anything besides "number 1s". Nevertheless it appears to be blocked this morning. The bowl is not emptying and the macerator is rumbling periodically. It has been very cold here. I...
strummer
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I've been following a thread on whether the heating should be left on permanetly or left to come on when people are in etc....
My question is wear and tear on the boiler whether combi or system,
Is it better for the boiler to cycle all day for little bits or is it better for the boiler to...
secret squirrel
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Hi All,
When I was a lot younger and Gas came from the local gas works, we were told that the most efficient way to maintain your house temperature was to set the room thermostat to your desired setting and leave it to control the heating and boiler, and to leave the timing setting on...
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Still having problems with my heating.
The boiler is only firing up for about 35 - 40 seconds every 3 - 4 minutes.
Its not exactly the same everytime sometimes its 45 seconds.
Its been fine for the past few days but today has started playing up again. The result of this is that the rads only...
TORMULA
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Hi, first post on here so go easy
I have the aforementioned boiler installed by BG approx 5 years ago and has been on homecare agreement ever since. In the summer we had a breakdown, no hot water, took BG a week and three different guys and virtually every part in the boiler replacing before...
rekkymech
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hello i have recently been contacted about a job where a lfe gas fire is spilling. i dont think the problem is ventillation as the unit is 6.5kw but it hasnt been used since last winter. could the problem be the flames are burning dirty due to dust build up and it requires a service or is it...
evsy01
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Hello all. will be renovating a 16th century cottage in the next few months,plumbing skills are limited to bathroom,shower and washing machine instulations and i have to tackle a solid fuel heating system. will be looking for advise on how to repair the existing plumbing for the winter and...
aboutit
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Hi folks ,The problem i have is that when the programmed time as elasped on (CH)the (honeywell mid postion valve) stays in its last postion ,this causes it to get hot over night and i read somewhere that this isen`t good for them as over time it causes them to burn out in other words the valve...
steveboy
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