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Hi i am installing a bathroom suite next week for college work. I am doing it at a friends house they have an electric shower now but they want a thermostsic bar mixer. They dont have a combi they have a cold water cistern in the attic and hot waer tank in airing cupboard next to it. I told...

Hi i have been asked to change a shower from one wall to another the current shower is electric.. But they want a new thermostatic shower or electric one. Would it be easier to fit electric one and get electrician to install the electric part as it is moveing further away from consumer unit. Or...

Hi i have been asked to change cast iron down pipe/rainwater pipe to plastic as it is leaking but the guttering is staying as cast iron can this be done? or do you have to change guttering to plastic if it can be done is there are a special connection to put plastic down pipe into cast iron...

Hi i am coming to an end of my 3 years at college. I have just been told if i want my full nvq lev2 I have to get public liability insurance and do 2 jobs why teacher comes out to the job. I have also been told i need to go self employed and start a business to do this. Only thing is I...

Hi not sure if my pic has posted but the problem is my combi keeps losing pressure other a couple of days. After looking everywhere i have found the drip it is underneath the combi on the return pipe right at the top where the 22mm pipe meets a big fitting(don't no what it is called) but it has...

Hi i have a 2 bed house with 4 rads and 1 towel rad. I have just bought a new rad to put in spare room as there isnt one in there. In this room is my combi worcester 240 My question is can i connect directly onto flow and return on combi as new rad will be on the same wall as it and if i try...

Just a quick question. In college today we where told you cant add on pipework for new rads at certain parts of the pipework. Teacher said 3 parts you cant add on to and these where called the 3 ts...Could anyone explain abit more to me where and where not your allowed to add rads on thanks

Hi i am not too good with computers but i am trying to send my cv out to companies but I dont have microsoft word and they keep asking for it. Is there any where i can down load it from if not how much does it cost any advice will help

Hi i am in my last year now at college studying nvq level 2 Plumbing and Heating. I was wondering if there where any kind Plumbers who would let me go out with them maybe 1 -2 days a week. I don't even want paying I just want the experience. Last time I asked a kind gentleman from St Helens...

How hard is this to install as i mentioned in last thread about fan light keep comeing on a gas engineer down the street said it would be the pcb and he could only fit a new one on wed Is it hard to change

Hi just had a call from a friend saying there boiler is not working and the fan light keeps comeing on. Is this due to the pump not working and it is over heating. Before you ask i dont no what boiler it is as friend didnt no and i have not seen it alls i know is that it is not a combi any...

Hi my brother has just called me out as his boiler conventional system will not work there is no power at all going to it he said it was fine last night but today it just would not come on the programmer still works but no power... I asked him if anything has happened he said he had laminate...

Hi i have just fitted a towel rad for a friend he lives in a 2 bed terraced with 5 rads plus towel rad . Before i started he said all rads where hot after i installed towel rad i tried to bleed them all up. Eventually i did it as it is a really old house and all rad nipples have corroded. Anyway...

Hi everyone I have just been asked to nip round a friends house as his stop cock is leaking and he is worried. I was just thinking of changing it over as it is quite old am i right in thinking if I turn the water off in the road and drain down the water i will be able to change it to a new one...

Hi i live in a house with a small garden and i have been given 200 block paving bricks as a friend ordered too many I want to put them in the garden so i can put my bench or plants etc on it. My question is do i have to buy/rent a plate vibrator as there will be hardly any weight on them or can...

Hi i have been out to look at freinds triton shower as he said it is leaking all the time i took the front off but im not sure what im looking for Has any one delt with this shower cheers in advance

Hi i was asked to change some mixer taps for a friend. I went round turned all water off unconnected the flexis from the copper pipe went to undo the tap and instead of being a copper rod underneath..It was black and plastic so i put my screwdriver in to turn it and it would not turn at all it...

Hi this may seem a stupid question but why i was away on the weekend with friends one of them said there hot water is allways on. I asked if they had a combi and he said no. He said he once had to turn hot water on an hour before too heat it up but now it is allways hot all day and night. I...

Hi i have just tried to take a radiator off for a friend and the lock shield side unden easily but the trv side wouldnt budge i kept trying and it started to move the trv and drip water out How do i drain this system it is a vented system but rad has no drain cock and it is about 25 yrs old...

Hi i have just had a look at friends rad, He said rad was ****ing water out i went round and the lock shield is dripping and no where as bad as i thought.. It is comeing from the top of the lock shield Any advice how to solve prob. :oops: