Recent content by Gareth James

Hi, At the end of last year we noticed water running down the walls of our 2 x front bedrooms, particularly bad in the corner of the bedroom at the gable end. At first we thought it may be coming from the gutters and had them cleaned. That didn't solve the problem and we got a roofer out check...

Hi, I normally set the thermostat downstairs to 19 and this would normally mean that the upstairs rooms are about 16 once it reaches this.... although the bathroom rad is terrible and doesn't get warm at all. Thanks Gareth

Hi everyone, thanks for the input, although my head is spinning at all the suggestions! Thanks Gareth

Hi, As far as I know the pipes downstairs feed from the boiler first, then it goes upstairs.... I could be completely wrong though as I am not a qualified plumber! The plumber just mentioned to me it was a one pipe system but didnt say what radiators feed first. Before we replaced the boiler...

Yes to all of the above. We have TRVs in all of the radiators bar the bathroom one which doesn't really get hot to be honest! The system was also flushed after the new boiler was installed.

Hello, We have recently had our ageing Baxi back boiler replaced with a new combi boiler. When the Plumber ventured under the floor during fitting, he noticed that the pipe system was an old one pipe system. Since the new boiler has been fitted we are getting excellent heat downstairs but it...

Thanks for your reply scottishgasman. What is the rough cost of getting this fitted? I am guessing that with the new combi boiler installed the dish washer is getting extra pressurised water passed through it??

I am however fearful that this will happen again and plan on turning off the water when I leave the house until I get someone else to look at all of the pipes in the house.

Hi Tony, It seemed to burst when I was running the dish washer, not sure if that would have not helped with the issue?? It burst between the two joined parts of the hot water pipe which the Plumber has now repaired, I don't have a picture of this sorry.

Hi Tony, See above pipe that burst (the one with the white joined valve is the one he has just repaired) it is marked hot on the pipe and it is upstairs, the combi is now in the kitchen... Cheers

Hi Tony it's a plastic pipe and I believe it may have been the mains. Do you believe the installer was at fault?

Hi, Looking for a bit of advice. We have just last week had an old back boiler replaced with a new combi boiler (Alpha). Whilst the guys were replacing the system they told me that they had only just found that it was a single pipe system. They did however continue with the job and told me...