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    42cdi or unvented

    I've been to see a customer who wants better water pressure, he wants a shower cabin, he's on gravity now and gets about 6 litres out of his mixer taps on the hot side.  Can fit a big combi for the flow rate, he is getting about 16litres a minute out of the cold.  However I spoke to...
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    Pump over run

    Ive been to a customers who's looking to replace a 30year old potterton flamingo 50s, keeping same type of system, all the wiring is in the airing cupboard at the other end of the house, so ideally I need a boiler that doesn't need the pump over run as customer doesn't want his house taking...
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    Boiler flue tips

    Hi guys, just wondering if any of you have any good tips for when you replace a boiler and the old flue was the big square balanced flues, new boiler bracket is always in the hole, obviously you can brick it up, and then start from new, just wondered if anybody had some good ideas on how they...
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    Honeywell 927 wiring

    Hi all ye clever people, I've fitted a worcester combi today, the customer is keeping his 927 programmer as it's almost new, we've a live, neutral and earth going from the spur to boiler, a live and neutral going from the spur to the receiver, then you have the 2 wires going out of the receiver...
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    Baxi 105e diverter

    Water luke warm at tap, passing to heating side. Is this going to be a fault on dhw part of the diverter? Ie the diapragm. I'm only just getting into fault finding so would like to have any advice you guys can offer. Thanks for any help.
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    Boiler fault

    Hi guys, want to pick yours brains, I've had a guy call me, saying after they turn off the heating, it's a worcester combi, about 10 years old. After about 6 hours the pressure drops in the system and the boiler screams, also when the heating is on and they run the shower the needle on the...
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    Vaillant diverter

    Vaillant turbo max, gets hot water only when heating is on. Am sure it's something in relation to the diverter. My question for you clever bunch, I've done very little fault finding and repair, am quite new to gas I've only really stuck to fitting boilers for a few years, but I'd like to learn...
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    Potterton netaheat 16-22

    Blokes just emailed me, radiators cold upstairs, warm downstairs, boiler in garage. Any ideas guys? Guys thinks he needs it power flushing, any advice from you lovely people ?
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    expansion vessel?

    ive fitted quite a few boilers now but would like to get a bit of experience with fault finding, ive a customer with a boiler that when you get it to 1bar, it heats up and works, but then goes up to over 3bar, blows off, and when cools drops to about half a bar, is this going to be the expansion...
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    Boiler flue distances

    Hi guys, never come across this before, wondered if any of you have any knowledge of it. Il call gas safe if not. I've been to price up a boiler, the customers existing flue comes out quite close to an outside wall hung lantern that sticks out from the wall light, (hope you understand what i...
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    halstead combi

    halstead combi gives hot water, but once its been used, until we run off some more water it wont give us any hot water. then when its cooled it gives us hot water, but then the same thing happens, any ideas guys?
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    Vaillant 831 combi

    Installed my first vaillant combi today, all nice and pretty, commissioned it as per manual, every know and then the fan makes a spluttering noise then clears itself, it was gone 5 when I was doing this and client away, so I couldn't ring vaillant for all info, so turned it off and will sort in...
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    vaillant 831 flue

    ive only fitted a few new boilers am newly registered. have got a bit of an awkward on flue wise, cant go straight up, well i can but it will be on the ridge of the roof and will sit in the middle of the window view so will look a mess, cant go out the back or to the side, can you go up off the...
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    Old panel radiators

    Just a question, some of you may know. The really old double panel radiators, the ones with no fins on them just 2 flat panels, my question is, would I get the same btus from a new single panel convector radiator as I would with the old panel radiators. Do I really need to replace it with a...
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    training

    im looking to learn more about boilers, fault finding etc. ariston worcester and baxi are close to me, ariston and worcester do a day course, baxi's is 3 days. any suggestions on which is best? anybody been on any of these courses? cheers
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    main diverter

    ive only been gas registered a year, an just starting to tackle some fault finding. im swapping just the actuator on the diverter on a main combi 30 eco. is it a dry pocket? or do i need to drain down, what is the best way? thanks guys
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    worcester r25 he

    hi everyone, im new to being gas registered, put all my hard work in and have fitted a few boilers, ive been giving all my fault finding jobs to another engineer but the problem with that is they then call him for everything else. ive do a few fault finding jobs but until ive done a few i...
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    Combi advice

    I've been to see a customer today, 5 bed house, 2 bathrooms, he's a conventional system, he wants to put a combi in to get rid of the cylinder which takes up some of his bathroom, he wants to remodel bathroom so do away with airing cupboard. Is there a combi that can cope with that size of...
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    Stuart turner shower pump

    Hi guys , I've got a Stuart turner 3.5 bar pump, packed up this morning, makes a buzz like its stuck , stripped it down, was a bit stiff but it ok after moving it. Plugged it in just to test it, it made the same buzz, but when you turn the shaft the pump starts and keeps going, so motor is...
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    room sealed gas fire

    hi all you clever people, ive been gas safe for about 6 months, still learning but always making sure i do everything properly. I went to a customers yesterday who wants his fire servicing when I install a new boiler. Ive never serviced a room sealed fire. Any advice? cheers
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