Welcome to the new forum and web address!

[rpm]

I think the idea is to boost numbers of visitors to the site, so by making it more international we get not only diyers/home owners asking for advice from overseas, but hopefully professionals who can answer those questions also.

Of course it's all about traffic

 

[rpm]

Totally agree with the first part of your post Dave.
Just to lazy to do an edit & quote on the phone

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Don't recall you being around then.

Just / tail end of the thread

 

[Millsy 82]

Ive just worked out my smileys

The cog on the 2nd row was orange (I must of pressed it scrolling) accidentally pressed it again and hey presto emojis work again

 

[BruceK]

This is an excellent site and it's very interesting to read in your intro about responses to some questions on the forum. I do understand the reason for not giving out information which might put people at risk but I admit I did get annoyed at the less than helpful attitude of one or two contributors, especially when seeking advice and I was accused by one regular of pretending to be my own 'qualified heating engineer'.
I run a business which requires an annual LPG inspection and at the last inspection I told the engineer we'd had the annoying problem of 'extinction pop' which regularly blew out the pilot light. After checking out a few of the usual possible causes he was honest enough to tell me that he didn't know what the solution was. However he said that if I could find the answer he would re-visit to install any new parts etc. I did eventually find the solution, but it came from outside this forum, from a heating specialist who was prepared to offer such advice and who obviously had lots of experience with boilers such as ours. It turned out to be a quick and simple fix, with no new parts needed, and the boiler has performed faultlessly since, so it didn't really need throwing away and replacing with a new one, which was, according to some, the only way forward. It will hopefully still be working well when some of the latest models are consigned to the scrap heap.

 

[rpm]

Glad you got it sorted Bruce however consider that as a forum it gets many gas related Q`s such as yours from Joe Bloggs with some pretending to be gas guys in order to get help. Now also consider what might happen to the forum should it give such help and somebody misunderstands the written words and kills themselves.