Archive for September, 2008

How To Locate Flow and Return Pipes

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

How To Locate Flow and Return Pipes The Basics: Over the years one of the more frequent questions that homeowners ask me is how to locate which of their radiator pipes is the flow pipe and which is the return pipe. The question usually revolves around the need to install TVRs (Thermostatic ...

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Bad DIY Advice Could Kill You!!

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Bad DIY I offer this piece of advice for all those who have a friend, work collegue, mate, uncle or cousin who loves to dish out DIY advice with no actual training in the field. DO NOT blindly take that advice without using a bit of common ...

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ISOLATE before you INVESTIGATE

Friday, September 12th, 2008

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Cowboy Heating Engineers Always ISOLATE before you INVESTIGATE. Why? As shown in this weeks photo the heating engineer decided that running 240 volt down an earth cable was acceptable. What's that mean to you?

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Walk Softly - VERY Softly!

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Cowboy Electrician We were re-adding two double sockets to a bedroom which had been removed when some walls were recently rearranged.  When we pulled up the floor boards we found signs of faulty electrics left over by the last person to touch the electrics.

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Standard BF Boiler to Standard Condensing Boiler

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Location: Royton, Oldham, Lancs Date: Aug 2008 Description: After British Gas broke used some interesting sales techniques to a lifelong client the jig was up. Our new client received our name from an acquaintance whom we've worked for in the past and we stopped by to see if we could help.

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