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A good plumber needed
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26-Jul-2005, 08:47 AM
The motorized valve on our central heating has "given up" and needs replacing. Can anyone recommend a plumber/heating engineer?
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26-Jul-2005, 05:11 PM
Yes I know an excellent one. His name is John. Oh, I forgot I live in New Hampshire.
26-Jul-2005, 05:53 PM
Has he got long arms??
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26-Jul-2005, 06:44 PM
Joe Lea in Hewitt St has been around a long time. It sounds like the diverter valve has gone? The one that controls heat to the radiators or hot water cylinder, assuming you've got an old boiler and not a combi or condensation boiler? These cost about £50 and are actually quite easy to fit so you shouldn't be looking at a large bill.
26-Jul-2005, 11:21 PM
What a site this is - even your 'domestics' can be solved by our 5 star man.
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27-Jul-2005, 09:01 AM
When we moved in to our 4 bedroom detached house 17 years ago it had a Potterton Myson Fanfare boiler. For the last 5 or 6 years of that boiler's life I had nothing but bother. Because of financial restrictions I had to do all the repair work myself. Before I became a world expert in the Myson Fanfare I spent over £500 in call out charges, including 1 of nearly £200 on Boxing Day 1998 which reulted in an allegedly new circuit board ( £169, total now £369 plus of course that VAT figure of 17.5%, my how hard the IR men work to earn that) and the nett result was zilch. No better. By the time I found this out the repair man had long gone. So I learnt how to do the repairs myself. Circulating pumps, Diverting valves were easy. Slightly more complicated the cooling fan and every other year the spark electrode would need replacing. I drew a line at the main gas jet as this needed a Corgi engineer to check the gas. It was a regular thing to be woken at 6-30am as the boiler fired into action and clanged and banged like a steam train having a heart attack. I spent many a winter with my head stuck in the airing cupboard cursing the damn thing. At one stage, despairing, I called in an Irish plumber who was unbeknown to me a real con-man. He stunk of drink, said I had a gas leak on my gas stove, but wouldn't fix it as "I was called out to mend the boiler", and to cut a long story short ended up as headline news in the LEP when he was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.
2 years ago I said enough was enough and had a combi boiler installed in the attic, and it's like heavenly bliss, we can't hear it at all and it is so reliable. And my days as a part time plumber have gone forever
28-Jul-2005, 12:33 PM
Noel 1, you should meet my husband - you could have many happy hours discussing feats of domestic engineering! When we moved into our delapidated house in 88, we had to gut it (still haven't finished it - ran out of oomph!) and hubby put in a new central heating system himself (had to get it inspected and passed by the gas board because of the tight regulations around gas supply) and also did all the plumbing and rewiring. We were on a limited budget and had to save our reserves for jobs hubby couldn't do, like the new roof! I have never regretted marrying an engineer!
01-Aug-2005, 05:45 PM
Don't know where you live, but I can recommend a young friend of mine - Richard Ellis, "Broadgate Plumbing & Heating". His telephone number is: 01772 741489. He's also a CORGI registerd gas engineer. uote]Originally posted by ishake
The motorized valve on our central heating has "given up" and needs replacing. Can anyone recommend a plumber/heating engineer? |
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