Heating & Gas Questions

Bottom 3 rails of electric towel rail not working
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Bottom 3 rails on new electric heated towel rail not heating despite bleeding over past 5 days with no air or liquid coming out. Is this normal? What should I do?

Boiler unexpected startups
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I have a Vaillent EcoFIT 630 system boiler with Megoflo Unvented cylinder. The system has Nest thermostat installed recently. The issue is at a random time of the day, approximately once a day, boiler comes on and go into heat and idle cycle (when max water temp reaches) without Nest …

Ecoflam MXE
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I have a Rayburn with a retro fit Ecoflam burner. It will light and run 2-3 times but then fail to relight. Checked, changed, swapped, the nozzle, igniter, coil, Sovs, photocell all make no difference to symptom. I’m beginning to think that it could be fuel starvation from tank due …

main boiler
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I am having to top up boiler on a regular basis from filling loop,apart from the obvious leaking and the valve in the boiler could it be anything else ?

Radiator not getting hot
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Radiator not getting hot. Radiator removed and flushed through. Added inhibitor refilled and bled radiator. Still not getting hot.

Safety warning
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So we just moved into a property and 3 days later they uncapped our meter so now we have gas. For 3 days once the meter was on we could smell gas on the boiler it says danger do not use. Under the sign it says (opened end fitting in …

Central heating
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Hi, currently looking after my elderly mother’s house which is unoccupied for large periods of time. The building insurance has asked us to leave the heating on via a timer which is no probs. However we usually turn the water mains off when there is no one about so what …

Heating on when thermostat is removed
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I was recently redecorating my hallway and thought I might as well remove my thermostat and just leave the back plate on the wall instead of painting around it but after removing the thermostat I noticed that my radiators all started getting warm? I don't know much about heating systems …

Heating & Hot Water in Annex
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I have oil central heating in my house. I’m converting a building in my garden only 8m from the house and adjacent to the oil tank. My question is, what is going to be the best method of hot water and heating in the annex building, oil, gas or electric …

Tower block - how to bring the radiator loop up to pressure?
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I live in a tower block (UK) which has a centralised boiler system. I believe (but not certain) the way it works is very hot water in some central block-wide closed loop passes through a heat exchanger and so heats the hot water that my flat uses for hot water …