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I have a very strange issue... I live in a block of flats and the flat directly above is having an issue with heat rising up through the soil pipes, causing water damage to their flat and their mains drainage pipes are extremely hot to the point of venting steam. The general consensus from...

Hi I hope someone might be able to advise or give pointers on what I could/ should do regarding a building issue. I moved into my house 5 years ago, it is a 1960‘s building that had a two storey extension added back in 1996.The extension was a garage and utility room with a large bedroom and...

Hi, I drained all the water from our radiators to fix a leaking valve on our downstairs radiator. Once this was fixed and leak was stopped, we filled the water from the combo boiler and all but the radiator that had the issue is working now. The radiator heats slightly from the bottom but not...

Looking for any and all information on what I belive is a 1970s Texaco Fuel Cheif suspended/hanging oil heating unit with Texaco Fuel Cheif "TFR" MP 2256 burner . Also has a tag for PowRmatic uh 140 model number. Cabinet is green and burner is red. This is hanging in my great great...

I moved into a new-build property a week ago and during the walk around by the site manager was told that the main radiator in the hallway can't be turned off as it controls the thermostat. The issue I'm having is that the house is far too hot. None of the other downstairs radiators even come on...

Hi guys, So customer complains that rad in extension hasn’t worked since being installed, the pipes run behind the dabbed boards through the ceiling through the original wall of the house and are teed into the rad at the top of the stairs, all looks okay but rad just doesn’t warm up. After...

Hello all, I'm renovating a bedroom and taken the opportunity to put a few more power sockets in the adjoining room (see pic). This is an internal stud wall - I've put Rockwool acoustic slabs in to dampen sound but now I'm thinking should I remove the 2 pieces of Rockwool I put either side of...

In a new build, residential building with four floors and fifteen apartments in total, what impact will the plant room located on the ground floor with MVHR and a boiler have on the flat directly above it, on the first floor? Is there risk of heat/noise/vibrations travelling to the flat above?

Hi all, On Tuesday 13th September I called in a power flush company to sort out my central heating as I had no heating, just hot water. On completion of job and a full test of system revealed there was an even bigger fault on my Glow Worm 24ci, a 2003 model. It had developed a flow fault and...