On 2013-10-17 17:05:25 +0000, Bob Hobden said:

"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.

Oil here and no leaks from the attic, which are all too horribly
apparent, if they occur! Radiators work perfectly. But honestly our
plumbing is beyond me, even if I had begun to have the faintest grasp!
When this house was built there were no mains water or drains
connections. We still don't have mains gas. The plumbing has been by
guess and by God for much of the time, it seems to me and every so
often, it reminds us which is in charge - being a former vicarage! ;-)
This time, it is just possible that, having been fitted, with new x y
and z something-or-other, the boilder just needs replacing.
Naturally. The tumble dryer and washing machine are both up for a bit
of a tickle and I've just had to have some curtains altered and re-hung
in another room and other curtain cords replaced. We LOVE old houses
but they do extract a toll!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon