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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
What’s required to replace your old combination boiler? A lot of work goes into replacing an old cast iron boiler with a modern A-rated appliance. Though most boiler swaps can be accommodated in a day or two an entire heating system can take up to a week. It depends on ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
'Can you issue me with a safety certificate' or the more common phrase 'can you commission my boiler' is the start of a conversation that in destined to go nowhere with our company. The reason is simple. If the conversation starts with either of those two phrases I know ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
We recently placed an ad for builders mate (a helper for one of our operatives). The job would entail helping the maintenance engineer with day-to-day work in and around the Greater Manchester Area. We were not necessarily looking for any qualifications and hoped that we might get lucky and find ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
We see more and more of these types of jobs as more and more people are convinced by more and more advertisers that they can create a kitchen the size of Taj Mahal out of a 3 x 3 metre room. Unfortunately for the homeowner we are always the one ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
With a background in IT, construction, electronics as well as home heating, gas engineering and plumbing I have a good idea of how a house should piece together and how to make it all work properly.
Over the years I worked my way into project management where I was very successful ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I receive a lot of questions relating to cooker installations. Most people don't realise that any gas appliance, including cookers and hobs require a permit from your local authority in order to install them legally. The installation should be given the same care and attention as a boiler or ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This is a complaint that comes up regularly. The toilet makes a loud noise during the fill cycle after flushing. Sometimes the noise is only a few seconds and sometimes like a toilet I repaired today, the noise goes on for the entire fill. What causes this noise and how ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Quote by John Ruskin, English Philosopher (1818-1900)
"It's unwise to pay too much...but it's unwise to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money...that is all.
When you pay too little...you sometimes lose everything...
because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing
you bought it to do. ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
This time of the year we are frequented with calls to add radiators and some people are surprised to find out just how much is involved in a seemingly simple task. For all intents and purposes adding a radiator loosely follows the 80/20 rule. You should also note that ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
New(ish) legislation has come into force requiring all new heating systems to have Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRVs) added. TRVs allow you to set a comfortable room temperature for each radiator individually. This then allows each room to accept or deny hot water to flow into the radiators dependent on the ...
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