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    not enough flush power?

    Hi chaps, Apologies if going over old ground but this is one I get from time to time - usually an OAP who says the flush is not working properly. On digging a little deeper it turns out the flush valve is working OK but occasionally does not wash everything away. What do you guys do in this...
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    water runs cold

    Hi fellas, It's a Warmflow combi Kabin Pak - thing is , when using shower, the water suddenly turns cold and customer goes out and hits the button on the High limit stat and all OK again. I replaced the high lim stat but problem still persists. Would it be the pump ? many thanks dave
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    power flush job

    I can feel a headache coming on..... guy wants the heating system flushed out. It's an oil fired system but also linked to solid fuel back boiler. There are two circ pumps neither of which are easily accessible ie both under the floor. Assume both would need removed before performing the flush?
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    inflating expansion vessels

    Had a devil of a time trying to pump one up using a bicycle pump - is there an automatic pump anyone would recommend? handy but not too pricey?? many thanks dave
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    base of boiler filled with oil ......what is going on here?

    Hi all, Just quickly...fitted a new Riello 40 burner about 5 weeks ago and all was fine until get call today to say customer had run out of oil but since oil delivery the burner was not firing up. Thought might be just a quick case of bleeding the pump but when I got there I found the base of...
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    banging in hot water pipe

    know its been done to death in previous posts......but long story short...fitted new basin taps. The pipework supplying the old taps was in copper but heavily painted over and criss crossed at back of the basin - one ugly mess. So i thought would tidy it up and fitted iso valves/ flexi...
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    unvented cylinder commissioning

    Hi fellas, Way back last year I did the unvented course and since then have not been near one .....on Monday have a commission job to do. Am reading back thro various course notes etc but is it best to stick to the commissioning procedure in the instruction booklet which I presume the...
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    moving soil stack to outside

    Hi chaps, Have a bathroom job to do sometime in near future - that in itself should be straightforward...however customer wants the soil stack moved to outside of house. Currently it runs inside a box up thro kitchen and bathroom. So would only have to move it about 400 mm onto the outer...
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    danfoss pump on sterling 40

    Hi all, sterling 40 ST108 will not fire. The punter ran out of oil but has had 200 litres delivered yesterday. There is a tiger loop in place. No oil coming thro at suction port but loads from return line. Any suggestions? Attached a vacuum guage and got no reading. thanks dave
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    macdee elan low level cistern

    Hi all - I have to replace a cistern next week. Don't usually work with plastic cisterns... am I OK to use a little silicone under the syphon outlet? thanks lads dave
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    automatic air release valve

    Got called out - customer complaining no hot water but rads all hot. Turned up thermostat on boiler , pump up to max and closed all rads except for one. Water starting to heat in hot water cylinder but very slow. Whilst in attic I noticed there is no vent over the header tank - only an automatic...
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    pressure reducing valve?

    Hi - called out to a property yesterday. The guy was complaining the toilet cistern was noisy filling and the valve closed with a thump. I found by closing down the main stopcock it solved the problem, The stopcock is now just about one half turn open , there is still plenty flow at the taps...
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    flush buddy

    Hi all, Just a quickie - what is the purpose of a fernox flush buddy? Is it just there to collect all the magnetic debris and to be able to demonstrate to a customer just what has been cleaned from their system? Surely all of this debris is going to be flushed away when using a power flush...
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    boiler start/stop

    Hi all, It's a Warmflow 70/90 System boiler - I had to drain the system down to replace some rad valves. Upon refilling , it fires up and runs for maybe 15 mins then stops for a couple of mins then starts again. It's like the thermostat is operating too early - is this perhaps because of air in...
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    wiring an immersion heater thermostat

    Just a quick one chaps - there are 2 pins on the thermostat - one for the live the other for the short length of cable running from T. Does it matter which way round these are - there is no indication on the thermostat itself. many thanks dave
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    circulating pump permanently on

    What would cause a pump to be on all the time even when the heating is off? The system is a vented oil fired with separate channels for heating and hot water. Any suggestions welcome, many thanks dave
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    teka shower mixer tap

    Hi all - mixer tap with very poor flow on hot side ( cold ok ) - it's a Teka model with a single lever on some sort of ball socket affair. Problem is I cannot seem to find any way of getting inside the tap to find what the problem is...under the lever there is a chrome cap which is loose and...
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    fire valve/safety feature testing

    this is one for all you boiler technicians ;;; how do you guys test fire valves? Has anyone bought the keprotec safety valve tester? Is it worth the dosh @ £300? Or what is the alternative? cheers dave
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    unvented system losing pressure

    Hi all, It's an oil fired system - Warmflow 50/70 boiler with an expansion vessel attached but the pressure guage keeps dropping over time to almost zero. The expansion vessel and boiler are situated at end of garden about 20 meters from the house so I assume there must be a leak in pipework...
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    no hot water in ensuite

    Hi chaps, How easy is it to fit a booster pump to a hot water supply? No flow from hot tap in en suite - situated some distance from the hot water cylinder. The cylinder is supplied by a cold water storage tank in the loft but the hot flow then goes back up into the loft and has to travel...
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