OK http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerRepairFAQ.html

This is about 40% complete and needs all the links and contents sorting.

You are permitted and encouraged to lift any boiler specific material for
the wiki.

You may only take the general safety and diagnosis material as a whole and
you must credit Sam Goldwasser.


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Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
The FAQ for uk.diy is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk
Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html
Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html
Choosing a Boiler FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerChoice.html
Gas Fitting Standards Docs he http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFittingStandards

On 21 Feb, 00:40, Ed Sirett wrote:

OK http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerRepairFAQ.html

This is about 40% complete and needs all the links and contents sorting.

You are permitted and encouraged to lift any boiler specific material for
the wiki.

You may only take the general safety and diagnosis material as a whole and
you must credit Sam Goldwasser.

Ah, you want us to do the work


NT

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:40:40 +0000, Ed Sirett wrote:

OK http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerRepairFAQ.html

This is about 40% complete and needs all the links and contents sorting.

You are permitted and encouraged to lift any boiler specific material for
the wiki.

You may only take the general safety and diagnosis material as a whole and
you must credit Sam Goldwasser.

Thanks Ed.

I think Electrical Safety justifies an article of its own, applicable to
any work on electrics (particularly in wet environments: CH controls as
well as boilers).

Likewise fault-finding in general: whether it's a boiler or an egg-timer
the general principles are worth expounding.

For both of these I'm inclined to start by referring to the s.e.r. faq
pages and adding a bit of localisation (plus a section on gas safety,
probably referring to the gas fitting faq).

Then some stuff on boiler-specific safety and fault-finding

What I've done so far is a wiki page on safety
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Safety

and a straight copy+wiki-markup of the boiler bits of your FAQ
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Boiler_Repair

I did start editing that but found it going in a rather different
direction so I've made it into a different article on Boiler Evolution:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...iler_Evolution

Probably a lot of glitches in that as it was off the top of my head (which
has obviously got a lot less boiler info in it than yours!) so if you
feel inclined to correct/expand the more glaring errors/omissions please
go ahead ...

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:09:48 +0000, John Stumbles wrote:

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:40:40 +0000, Ed Sirett wrote:

OK http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerRepairFAQ.html

This is about 40% complete and needs all the links and contents sorting.

You are permitted and encouraged to lift any boiler specific material for
the wiki.

You may only take the general safety and diagnosis material as a whole and
you must credit Sam Goldwasser.

Thanks Ed.

I think Electrical Safety justifies an article of its own, applicable to
any work on electrics (particularly in wet environments: CH controls as
well as boilers).

Likewise fault-finding in general: whether it's a boiler or an egg-timer
the general principles are worth expounding.

For both of these I'm inclined to start by referring to the s.e.r. faq
pages and adding a bit of localisation (plus a section on gas safety,
probably referring to the gas fitting faq).

Then some stuff on boiler-specific safety and fault-finding

What I've done so far is a wiki page on safety
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Safety

and a straight copy+wiki-markup of the boiler bits of your FAQ
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Boiler_Repair

I did start editing that but found it going in a rather different
direction so I've made it into a different article on Boiler Evolution:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...iler_Evolution

Probably a lot of glitches in that as it was off the top of my head (which
has obviously got a lot less boiler info in it than yours!) so if you
feel inclined to correct/expand the more glaring errors/omissions please
go ahead ...


That's a big step forward.

The momentum of the wiki seems to be increasing. I think I'll start adding
a bit here and there.
The advantage is that the info becomes available online quicker and links
and other mark ups are simpler (for me).


--
Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
The FAQ for uk.diy is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk
Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html
Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html
Choosing a Boiler FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerChoice.html
Gas Fitting Standards Docs he http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFittingStandards

Ed Sirett wrote:

The momentum of the wiki seems to be increasing.

It certainly is - traffic has ramped up to around 200-300 visits a day,
and that's with very few inbound links to the wiki. The main faq gets
between 1500 and 2000 visits a day. (note that these are unique visits,
not hits - the number of hits is far greater, but is a less useful
indicator).


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Grunff
http://www.greendoug.com - a forum for all things environmental

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:15:53 +0000, Grunff wrote:

Ed Sirett wrote:

The momentum of the wiki seems to be increasing.

It certainly is - traffic has ramped up to around 200-300 visits a day,

not all of them benign:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...7.11 8.108.81

John Stumbles wrote:

not all of them benign:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...7.11 8.108.81


Ah, the joys of wiki...


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Grunff
http://www.greendoug.com - a forum for all things environmental