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    Vented cylinder installation in Bedford ASAP

    Hi, my hot water cylinder started leaking two weeks ago, my landlord has British Gas cover and they were meant to be coming tomorrow to fit a new one, the cylinder got delivered this morning but they’ve then cancelled due to strike action so can’t come for another two weeks which in the...
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    Hot water from cold tap

    Hi, I’ve noticed that when I have my heating on a lot like at the moment, when I turn on the cold tap on the basin in the bathroom that for the first 3-5 seconds the water that comes out is hot and after that goes back cold and stays cold, should I be worried? I have a y-plan system which is...
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    Replacing radiator, any advice or tips?

    Evening Ladies and Gents, I need to replace this radiator and was wondering how straight forward it would be for me to do it myself? Thanks.
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    Boiler not lighting properly

    Hi, and merry Christmas to everyone! My boiler has stopped working properly and so I have no heating or hot water. Everything runs but the flame doesn't appear to be powerful enough to heat the water, rather than seeing the normal blue jets, it looks more like a pilot light leaning to one...
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    Boiler grants

    Hi, I've been trying to find out some info about possible grants for installing a central heating system for my nan and grandad, but all I can find is conflicting information so was wondering if you guys would be able to point me in the right direction? They are both well into their 80's...
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    Strange noise and yellow flame

    Hi, I have an ideal classic ff230 and this evening when the heating came on I noticed a rather loud whining noise coming from the boiler near the top and when I looked in the little inspection window, the flames were yellow rather than blue, so I have immediately turned it off and phoned the...
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    Faulty pressure gauge?

    Hi, I have an ideal classic ff230 system boiler, I happened to notice earlier that the pressure gauge was reading just over 3 bar so I immediately turned off the heating and allowed the system to cool. Once it was cool, the pressure gauge read just above 0.5 bar which suggests the pressure...
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    Boiler losing pressure

    Hi, I decided to bleed my radiators today which dropped the system pressure from 1 bar to 0.5 bar, so I topped up back to just below 1.5 bar and then the pressure went back down to around 1 bar, so I topped up again only to find the same thing happen, so I went round each radiator and made sure...
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    Isolating hot water

    Hi, the mixer tap on our kitchen sink is in need of replacement, its white although a lot of the "paint" or whatever makes it white is flaking off and a few days ago we started having trouble turning the cold tap off, so thought now is the time to replace, unfortunately there is no isolation...
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    Cold radiator

    Morning guys, I went to my mums yesterday and she commented that the radiator in the hallway was cold, so I offered to have a look. She has recently had an extension built onto the front of the house with 2 new radiators and a heated towel rail, she originally had a massive double radiator...
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    Help, leaking tap!

    Hi, I've discovered that the hot tap on the basin in the bathroom is leaking from underneath, specifically from the middle of the black nut thing at the top. Any idea how I could repair this? There is no isolation valve so I'd rather not replace the tap! Thanks in advance.
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    Curiosity about system

    Hiya, I've been nagging at my mum to upgrade her boiler to a more efficient system, as she currently has a Baxi back boiler which was installed easily 20 years ago and has pumped central heating and gravity fed hot water. Now what has made me curious is to how this system works in relation...
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    Gas supply pipe, who's responsibility?

    Hi Guys, First of all, apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but I wasn't sure which forum this would be relevant too! Anyway, for the problem, My Mum is having an extension built on her house and her builder discovered that the gas line going into the house is buried just below the...
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    Ball valve replacement

    Hi guys, I've noticed over the past few days that water is dripping out of the overflow on our toilet, on further inspection, the ball valve is not fully shutting off and keeps dripping, which is what is causing it to overflow. I have tried adjusting the nut that controls the level of...
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    Replacing Programmer

    Hi Guys, I currently have a British Gas UP2 programmer and have been thinking for some time about replacing it with one that will allow me to program the central heating and hot water to come on at different times to each other as well as having different times for different days. Is...
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    Radiator not working

    Hiya, I have finally caved and put the heating on, and have noticed that the radiator in the hallway is not coming on, which coincidently was the same radiator I had British Gas out in June to fix a leak on. The hall is where the room stat is so the radiator in question does not have a TRV on...
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    Strange Noises from boiler

    Hiya, I have an Ideal Classic FF230 system boiler which has started making noises that it hasn't done previously and was hoping that someone would be able to tell me if I should get someone out to look at it please? I will try to describe the noises the best I can, I have so far resisted...
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    Ideal Classic FF230 British Gas Declared boiler "At risk"

    Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me as I'm getting nowhere with British Gas on this matter! On Thursday, BG came out to repair a leaking radiator (Under homecare agreement) as well as to rectify a fault in the hot water system (he replaced the 3 port valve in the airing cupboard) and...
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