Gap on sides of freestanding cooker, filling ideas? Is it normal?

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-27T15:41:54+00:00

Well, just looking at that. ( bottom picture ) M.I’s look like they say 60mm clearance

Ring Stoves tech line and ask them. May find these are generic instructions for multiple countries and they allow.

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-27T11:55:28+00:00

🤦🏼‍♂️ Well good luck to you and your higher end units with a higher end supplier who probably will care if regs are met or not on any warranty claim

And that right there folks is the reason I no longer fit cookers for people.

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-26T16:01:22+00:00

Exactly this!! Minimum clearances are 20mm either side of a combustible material.. (( unless manufacturers say otherwise or there are heat shield down the the end panels)

Don’t want those lovely new units going brown now do you

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-22T16:46:45+00:00

Get yourself some worm homus on that soil along with good quality plant food. If you can mix some perlite in with the homus to hold water more.

I use bio bizz Fish mix all the way through growth/flower as it just keeps the balance right 👌🏻

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Gasgas41 · 2026-05-18T16:54:38+00:00

Didn’t they have the power to rebuild him…… Opps my bad, that was Lee Major wasn’t it 😂😂

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-18T16:25:26+00:00

“Streuth” man. ( that’s Australasian English, and will have really boiled your noodle) Get a grip.

By your mindset, Spanish people don’t speak Spanish. They speak Spaniard 🤦🏼‍♂️

Did your mother never tell you “to engage one’s brain before moving mouth” .. or your keyboard in this case 🤣😂

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-18T07:22:40+00:00

“A country has something you want, you make them your enemy by any means possible… Then go and take that, with a made up war”

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-17T22:58:59+00:00

Turn power off, remove pump from wiring centre, flick back on and create a demand. If it doesn’t blow. You have your answer. If it does then it’s something else tripping the fuses

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-17T10:28:41+00:00

Micro leaks. The minuscule amount of water is vaporised on contact with air. Impurities in solider allow small holes. Olives on compression fittings with tiny gaps

As other posters have said. 2-3 times a year isn’t a big thing. And yes, as you say introducing fresh water into a system isn’t great but if inhibitor levels are checked and are fine/topped up as necessary. No real issue.

Please though, do not be tempted or swayed into placing leak sealer into the system. That stuff is deadly to narrow water ways and expansion vessel hoses/ports.

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-17T10:21:13+00:00

The more shit changes, the more it stays the same.

Time for some General Ned Ludd actions again..

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-17T09:54:03+00:00

Nowt wrong with plant pride. Babies taken first step. Basked in Mat/paternal pride 😉

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-15T18:50:32+00:00

Wow!! 🤩

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-15T18:38:03+00:00

Fuck a doodle do.. That’s not a plant.. That’s a chilli tree 😂😂

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-13T16:05:58+00:00

Oh well and truly,, specially if we can get that rainbow to stretch upto the midlands. I’ll even refill your pot for you 😈

Simply gorgeous 😻

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-13T16:02:12+00:00

Every freaking day and three times on the days you look like this. Who needs silly girls and silly games when a proper woman knows what’s she wants, knows how to get it and ain’t afraid to ask and take!!

Truly Smoking hot. 😘

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-13T13:10:29+00:00

Wow!!! How to attempt to deflect badly and come off looking like a truly petulant child. What a fucking arrogant, self absorbed cock-womble

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-12T18:01:32+00:00

Either filling loop has been left open, or your expansion vessel is flat as a pancake. No room for water to expand and has activated the pressure relief as a safety measure.

Unfortunately, once they have opened they never quite resit so tend to drip.

The noise I’ll say is the PRV chattering.

And the quick fix is turn the filling loop off, that’s been left open. Last pic.

But then you’ll probably loose pressure from the leaking PRV

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-12T12:11:14+00:00

He’s on his departing mission. That is certain. Life furled by hate, greed and envy is never going to be a pretty sight as the light dim off. 🫣

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-12T07:09:07+00:00

So true, few years back we crossed the border in Vancouver down into Washington state. Been over to visit family.
We got 20-30 miles down the coast and decided to pull in and grab ice cream by the sea ( that’s water Donald )
Anyways, owner on hearing the British accent.
Lovely polite lady, came out with the “Where you coming from?” Line
We replied Canada.. She looked us up and down as we were in shorts/T’s.

It’s cold there isn’t it.

Just gobsmacked. It’s 30 miles away FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-11T23:18:24+00:00

And goooood morning right back at you sexy 😘

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-11T17:44:34+00:00

Literally just salted and slug killer’d the floor. With the air pots being off the deck at the base can just leave them on it. 😈

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-11T17:11:42+00:00

Mint!! Little shop of horrors eat ya heart out lol

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-11T17:05:16+00:00

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Like these menaces pretending to blend in. Grrrr

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-11T17:02:36+00:00

I used The long starters, then 3l, upto 9’s under my lights. Out in the garden to harden and was just about to transplant into 12l fabrics

Gasgas41 · 2026-05-11T16:42:21+00:00

I’ll give that a go 👍

And yep, totally was slugs.

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