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Flat is too cold despite heating!!!!
Hi there, I have been reading all the helpful comments on this forum regarding heating etc. However, I need further assistance. I live in a top floor flat overlooking a canal.Its always cold in the flat despite running the Dimplex 'box' like enconmy 7 heater on boost as it just not possible to stay in the flat by opening…
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linked system for central heating
Hi all, I'm looking for some advice. I am thinking of installing a linked system combining a gas boiler with a stove and back boiler. At the moment I have an open fire with back boilder and no central heating so anything will be an improvement! the idea is for Stove back boiler to feed into hot water tank so I can heat the…
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Heating a Water Tank help
Hi There, We've moved into a lovely old cottage with oil heating which is costing us a huge fortune. This is the first time we have ever had a water tank and we don’t really understand how it works. We’ve turned the water off on the controller. The heating comes on for 2 hours in the morning and 4 hours at night. The hot…
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Thermastatic controlled heater
Hi All, Just wondering what your thoughts are regarding fan heaters. We have a woodburner that heats most of the house and we occasionally supplement with either a fan or an oil filled radiator. Both heaters have an adjustable thermostat and a switch to switch between 1KW or 2KW. Now I think is doesn't really matter…
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Vokera excell 80 sp breakdown ...
Hi, My boiler has broken down and I am without heating and hot water. I have an engineer coming on Monday morning but was interested to know if any my fellow MSE'Rs have any clue as to what the problem is. It was working fine until Friday evening the temperature gauge started dropping and left us in the cold. Could it be a…
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Storage Heaters vs Oil or Convection Heaters?
Hi all I've been having a real good read through the post's before posting myself but still have a question. I've read it said in dozen's of post's that with electric, basically it doesn't matter which type of electric heating, they're all going to cost the same, ie, expensive ~ or have I misunderstood? My query is that…
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How does cavity wall insulation work
by that, I mean how does it get put in, does it mean a redecorate, what if you havent got cavities in your walls? (is that even possible) i ask this as i am hoping to move, IF i ever manage to sell my property and want to put all the money saving stuff i can into a new house. we like older style houses, either from the 30s…
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vaillant boiler breakdown
Our 18 month old Vaillant EcoTec Plus boiler failed catastrophically recently when a rubber tube inside the boiler perished, emptying the very hot contents of the boiler all over the cloakroom in which it was housed! I'd be interested to know if anyone else has experienced this problem?
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boiler is tripping electrics - any suggestions
Thought I would try the vast MSE pool of knowledge and see if anyone can help. Our boiler - Alpha gas condesner on ly just over 2 years old - keeps tripping teh RCD on our electrics. Gas engineer has done everythign he can think of, Alpha don;t have any sugegstions other than using a piece of kit which woudl cost our…
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my gas boiler RIP :-(
my bottom unit has corroded, apparantly! wonder why it easnt picked up on, when they 'fixed' it last year.. (some box underneath had come out of / dropped off its rusting bracket..) hey ho, now needs a survey of some sort to see what size boiler needed0 hopefully some thing more moden, efficient, and therefore cheaper…
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British Gas Homecare200
I was paying £19/month for British Gas homecare200, when I phoned British Gas and said I wanted to cancel they offered me the same service for £13/month. Is there an equivalent cervice to homecare200 but cheaper? Thanks in advance, N.
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best option for heat
ok so before you all have a go, i know there are a lot of threads like this but none of them answer my question. i have a very old central heating system in place (from approx 1975) it runs 7 radiators which are not controlled by a thermostat. so its all on or none on. so far this year we have been using a halogen heater…
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Boiler needs replacing
Hi All, OH and I bought an approx 30 year old house 18months ago. We were warned by 2 plumbers when we moved in that the boiler may well need replacing. Plumber number 3 has recently said that it now REALLY needs doing so we are going to bite the bullet and replace it as soon as it warms up. Anyone idea what rough cost…
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Franco Belge Parisienne Multi Fuel Stove
Has anybody got any experience of buying these stoves, I was thinking of a Morso Stove but saw these and wondered what they are like to run?
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opening up a fire where the flue run's through
Can anybody help me please, I want to open up the original fire in my dinning room, but when the central heating was put in, they put the flue through the chimney breast. It's not in the centre it sit's to one side. My chimneys have both been lined so would it be a better idea to have a wood burner instead. Please help me…
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any advice please.
i realise the weather at the mo is very cold but we are getting through a bag of coal every 2 days and the house is still chilly.:eek: looking for some opinions,help,advice,wondering if we would be better off running some other form of heating.(this has been a massive shock after 10+ c/heating):D
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Advice needed
Hi, Me and my friend have recently moved into an upstairs flat (renting), 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen and living room. There is no central heating, the only forms of heating are two electric heaters (one at the bottom of the stairs by the front door :confused: and one at the top of the stairs) and a gas fire in the…
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Needing a push in the right direction (solar power)
Please Move thread to correct forum if Applicable Was discussing at work with a friend about getting solar power heating. What i currently have is coal and would like to come away from this. I have a 3 bedbroom semi house. I would like to know if there is away of getting solar power to heat my house fully and be…
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Blocked chimney (with bricks!)
Decided to open up the fire place in our living room as we have a limitless supply of free wood (we have a fire in the barn and like using it when we are in there), opened it up, all still there, looked up chimney and it looked ok, so lit a small fire with paper and rubber to make sure the smoke came out the chimney. It…
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radiator temperature
hi all this is my first post, and basically i'm trying to save money on the heating bill and keep the house warm at the same time. so far i have replaced my old boiler, carried out a series of draft excluding measures, and now looking into having the cavity walls insulated as well as increasing my loft insulation. i have…