Recent content by cam123

It was reset to 3bar yesterday afternoon and it has dropped again overnight when I just checked it now. If temperature makes quite a difference, how much of a difference? What is acceptable tolerance and what is a leak?! I can get the heating engineer back to get him to sort it out or I can...

Hi, could anyone offer their advice on the following please - I'm in the process of a full house renovation, and have just completed the first fix plumbing (or rather the plumber has) for c. 12 rads in new locations. Not all of the pipe work is new, but i'd say 70% is. It's all in copper and...

Hi all, You've all helped so far with my dodgy two-flats being turned into one house set-up and wondered if you could also offer advice on testing please. I have a lot of new pipe work now in, heating and hot and cold, and have decided that a secondary return is not needed (the unvented...

Frankly, if it goes outside on the public footpath (don;t the council have something to say about that?) then i'm happy - in that case the pipe would have to go at the same time. Always thought that meters for private houses stayed on the property...

I seem to have a flow rate of about 18 litres/min. Thing is, the pipe comes straight into the house from the external valve, there is no garden or anything inbetween. There is nowhere outside for a meter to be placed as it would be on the public pavement, meaning that the meter would have to...

There is no worry really when it comes to storage of water in the short term - there are only two of us in the property so our needs aren't huge and a combi without cistern works just fine. The system boiler and megaflo is very much to match the scale of the house (and the likely family that...

On the secondary return point i see that it really could be either way, and basically it comes down to if I want to pay the price (new pipe run, pump, installation, timer, running costs) of the super-convenience of having the hot water come out of the tap straight away as opposed to after a...

Right ok, that makes sense. So without a return i will have to wait for the hot water to feed through from the cylinder? I have purposefully chosen a location for the cylinder in the middle of the middle floor of the property, so the furthest away shower would be around 3m of 22mm and 4m of...

Ok, so can anyone explain to me under what circs I would need a secondary return and under which circs I wouldn't? Then from that I can work out which I fall into. This is the realy critical issue that i need to deal with and put it in or not next week. The 2nd engineer actually then...

Could any heating engineers offer me advice on the following please? So far I have had two advise and they totally contradicted one another! Situation: I have a property currently laid out as two separate flats, each has a combi boiler. The property is gradually being turned back into one 5...

Thanks very much indeed to both of you, I might go on a hunt for the wisebox and then call the electrician... I think it might be in the garden, controlling the gates and lights out there. Helpful to know that my "logic" is totally wrong too! Cheers!

My friend doesn't know what the wisebox is, he isn't very practical to say the least. Googling it, it seems to be something for remote controlled lights, which i can't see that they have, although they do have remote speakers throughout the house, they are still working though so it can't be...

Hi, if anyone could help me with this i'd be very grateful. I'm currently house-sitting for a friend and something has gone haywire. I don't know if i'm being an idiot or if I need to ring an electrician... Ok so, we'd only been here about an hour when we realised the kitchen lights weren't...

So cutting to the chase, i don't need to understand this, but i do need to work out if this machine is faulty. How do i do that? And i know that it SHOULD be hard-wired and it SHOULD be on it's own circuit and that that is the easy answer. but i am a total electricity layman and i need to...

so if i plug it into the same socket as the oven it should work if the problem is indeed due to the circuit not being correct? i need to check though - is there any chance whatsoever that the oven would not be on a higher Ampage and that i would just be swapping onto a circuit which is...