"sacha" wrote ..

Charlie Pridham said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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Today is nematode day. After approximately 2" of rain last night, anyone
who saw five people out there watering this morning must have thought
they'd walked into a parallel universe!


Sacha, has Ray Checked out "Met52" its biological but you pre mix it in
the compost so its there all the time, quite pricy but a lot less work

I'll ask him and Matthew, thanks, Charlie. At present, the air is a very
pale blue while both of them try to figure out why the house boiler appears
to be leaking water when it's off. Matthew and I reckon it's some kind of
pipe trouble, Ray reckons it's rain coming through the air brick from
outside. I'm just glad it's not January!

We had a similar problem earlier this year, water dripping out of the hot
water overflow from the expansion tank in the loft despite a new valve up
there.
Turned out to be a fault in the hot water tank in the airing cupboard so
mains pressure was actually getting through to the sealed boiler system,
there was a hole in the coiled boiler pipe that runs inside the tank and
heats it. New tank needed together with a new shower pump (original also
leaking slightly) and lots of new plumbing which, I must admit, has cured
other problems of constant air in the pipes.
The plumber then found four joints in the boiler flue behind the tank that
were loose and leaking so we had to call in flue specialists and have all
that replaced too with the modern metal twin walled stuff. British Gas
hadn't spotted the leaks despite their annual service and use of smoke
bombs! It was rather an expensive episode.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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