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My Setup: Electric boiler, heating HW / CH - I have a gravity-fed hot tank and header tank in loft. My Problem: When turning on the HW for a downstairs shower, after between 12-24 hours, the header overflow starts trickling with water. The ball valve is operating fine, but the expansion...

Hello all, I have a disappointing shower and awife who is keen for me to resolve the following problem! I have an upstairs shower, linked to mt electric boiler-heated, gravity fed heated water. The pressure of the hot is incredibly disappointing, so I am looking at installing a shower pump...

I have outdoor lights which work fine, but need to be manually turned on and off, so I added a PIR sensor from screwfix. I followed all the wiring instructions, and turned the light back on, and flicked the on switch. The lights come on, but do not turn off. In the instructions, it says that...

Hello all, We are one day into our holiday, staying at a friends cottage in Dorset. All was going well, but we noticed it was getting cold last night, and discovered that the power to the boiler was off. Power to the whole kitchen circuit, half the lounge and some of the bedrooms have...

This might sound enormously nooby to ask, but once a short radius bend pipe has been cut to fit, and the end attachment put on, is it advisable to put sealant around the cut join? I'm asking because, surprise surprise, I have a very small leak coming from exactly that place, perhaps a drop a...

I live in a small three bed semi in south Kent, and have had a quote for some plumbing work, mainly: Drain down CH system To 'flip' a rad from one side of the room to the other (2m) To connect two other wall-mounted rads to the existing CH (about 2-3m from existing pipes) To run H and C...

Setup: Semi-detached, woodburner for heating/ Water, immersion for warmer months The shower is downstairs, and while the water in the tank/off all taps is hot, even on bath tap, the shower (from the bath mixer tap) has started struggling to supply hot water. It does some times, but not...

Can anyone give me an alternative - for example, would a copper cutter or speedfit cutter work just as well? Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am about to connect the CH and water from my existing house to my extension (2 rads upstairs, 1 down, plus a shower,basin,toilet), and am considering non-copper connections and pipes. Based on experience, can anyone recommend one brand over another? I have personally been...

Hello all, I had a wood fire installed last September that also connects to my (indirect) cylinder. There is a thermo on one pipe near the fire. If it is on 40, the rad pump kicks in, but moves only warm water around. If I turn it above 40, the rad pump turns off, but the tank then fills with...

We recently had a woodburning boiler stove fitted for cost/environmental reasons. It is set up as the picture in the link below shows (as far as I can ascertain): http://www.boilerstoves.co.uk/boiler-stove-installation-B.html The hot water is glorious - very hot and plentiful. The only...

I am selling a 1250l double sealed oil tank, that is in good nick and only about 5 years old. Could anyone please give me an outline price to expect please? Also, I have around 500 litres in there, that I need to remove. Any (sensible) extraction and transportation suggestions? The local...

Hello all, The oil was admittedly quite low, so we reordered, and now it won't heat at all. There seems to be about 5mm of water in the base of the boiler, and when we press the red lock-out button (the only button on the internal face of the boiler), it fires for around 10 seconds, then cuts...

I have a Mira Sprint electric shower, and has been installed about a year. I have noticed recently that i have to turn the dial further around than I used to for a hot shower. 12 o'clock used to be ideal, but it now needs to be at 3 o'clock to be warm enough. Before you mention it, I...

The reception from my digibox was getting worse and worse, and gave up altogether on Friday. Today I checked a join, where two terminals meet (the main cable and the cable to my digibox), and the plastic sleeves had water inside. The cable goes through an airbrick and then UP to this...

I have air in my CH system that I can't seem to get rid of. My existing system has an old (upside down bottle) aerator which has rather rusted over, so have purchased a new one to replace it with. The question is: how? I am presuming that if I unscrew the present one, I am going to have a...

After the hot summer just gone, we realised that we had not turned our CH on for weeks. Oddly, the bathroom rad (which we recently replaced) comes on, but all the others are stone cold. Although the pipes around the pump are hot, and there is a noise, I have bled it and increased the speed...

Help me solve a wife-dilemma. I say that it is not possible to put a catflap IN the glass of a double-glazed back door (and I mean totally double glazed, not one of those half and half jobbies). She says it might be possible. Help?

Hello, I have an ordinary halogen strip light that i want to connect to my kitchen in-loop light circuit, but it only has a basic (ie one wire each connection) joining unit. Can I buy expanders suitable for the (nine) wires that I need to link up to this circuit? Also, how do I distinguish...