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It has come to my attention that more and more of our customers are being sold cookers and hobs without being told if they need a FSD or not.

It dosent matter if you live in newcastle, tyneside or tim-buck too, the regulations state that any cooker fitted in a multioccupancy dwelling, which includes a flat,maisonette or student accomodation must have a FSD.

An FSD stands for flame sensing device, and is a safety feature installed on many hobs and cookers.

It makes me angry that the likes of Argos,Comet etc are not educating customers on this fact.

The average member of the public is not going to know what a fsd is.

So in short if your buying a cooker or hob and you live in a flat,maisonete or student accomodation, then it MUST contain a FSD, or no Gas Safe Registered installer will be able tofit the appliance.

If you have ny questions on this matter then please feel free to give us a call on 0191 2893464

We are often asked by our customers if

we carry out plumbing work and are we

plumber’s or Heating Engineers?

Well the answer is we are both to a

certain degree to find out exactly what

heating services we carry out then please

visit our main site.

Although we specialise in heating work

we also carry out plumbing repairs on

radiators and central heating system pipe work.

So to sum if you need a plumber or a

heating engineer then give us a call we

are sure we can help or at least point you in the right direction.

If your boiler is not working, there’s a good chance one of the following five tips, which you can check yourself, may solve the problem and save you some money in the process.

TIP 1

Check your pressure

All Combi boilers require a certain amount of pressure in the system. If the systems pressue is low (between 0 and 0.5) the boiler may not run, reasons for a pressure drop are as follows:

1) A leak on the central heating system (check radiators and pipework).

2) A defective relief valve on the combi itself (check to see if the overflow outside is wet/dripping).

3) Removal of a radiator for decorating etc.

4) Faulty expansion vessell.

To re-pressurise your boiler simply turn the black tap (illustrated in the diagram above) until you hear water flowing, during this process you should see the dial on the pressure gauge rising, when the black dial reaches anywhere between 1 and 1.5 turn the tap back to the off position(original position).

TIP 2

Check you have a gas supply.

Sounds obvious but you would be surprised how many times we get called out for this, simply turn on a gas cooker or gas fire to check.

TIP 3

Make sure your room thermostat is turned up.

For example if your room thermostat is on 10 degrees, then the boiler wont fire up your central heating until the tempertaure drops to 10 degrees, which is pretty cold, so turn it up.

TIP 4

Is your Pilot light on?

Many boiler’s have permanent pilot lights which means the pilot light is always on, regardless of the demand for heating and hot water. If the pilot light has been extinguished, then it needs re-lighting. To do this simply press and hold the button on the gas valve this is normally grey or green in colour but can vary, then press the spark button over and over again (whilst the button is pressed in) until the pilot light becomes visible through the little window (pilot viewing window), once lit count to 30 then slowly release the button, the pilot should now stay on.

TIP 5

Check you have electrical supply

Again an obvious one but still a very common fault. If a fuse spur is powering your boiler (like in the picture below) then simply remove and change the fuse, if its a plug then again change the fuse

If you stll have no joy, then the problem will need investigating by a CORGI registered Heating engineer

Please do not attempt anything which involves tampering with your boiler, this type of work is only suitable for CORGI registered Heating Engineer’s

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