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Since we had a new boiler installed I am struggling to balance the radiators - they will be fine for a few days or even weeks but eventually go very tepid. Because they are tepid It's difficult to work out which order they run in. I have just brought some digital thermometer clips and plan on...

New boiler conversion (gravity to combi). Plumber left us with inconsistent rads, 24 hours later all 13 refuse to heat up above 30 degrees. No issues with thermostat, and boiler is turning on/off as needed with that. I took advice from an old post on here and shut off all the radiators and...

We recently had a boiler installed (Veissmann 050W) and the installer has placed it on a big piece of chipboard and ontop of that is a boiler bracket. He said they are all installed that way but looking at reviews for this company I am seeing the same boiler, neatly installed onto the wall...

Had a new boiler installed and everything went to plan except all 13 of our radiators is cold at the bottom. Upstairs they are worse and only warm at the top. Heating has been on for 3 ours at a 65 degree flow temp and we’ve done from 14-15 degrees in that time. Before the install I went and...

Looking to replace my CWS tanks in the loft, they are 35 years old, full of silt, have a broken float and have stretched so much now that the makeshift covers are not fitting well and close to falling in! We have 2 main CWS tanks - approx 56x56x108 - I make that approx 75 gallons capacity...

We are getting a Vaillant ecoFIT Pure 418 next week and hope that it will work with our existing Hive system. From their litterature the boiler will give a max 19kw of heating output and 25kw for domestic hot water. This confuses me as it's a heat-only boiler but if true it's perfect for us as...

We've got one of these online boiler companies coming to fit a new boiler and hot water cylinder. They won't consider any other work (I have asked) but they all work with subcontracted engineers and I am hoping when they arrive I can offer cash in hand for all 5 of our gate valves to be replaced...

Finally decided to replace our non-condensing boiler and decided to stick with a standard heat-only boiler and maybe get a new hot water cylinder with it. The question we now have is what size to get? We are 4 Bed Detached with 13 Rads (old & single panel). Our total heat loss is 7.76 kW and...

I’ve got a yellow Hercal cylinder that I am looking to upgrade it when we come to replace our aging boiler. Reasons being our immersion doesn’t work and I’d really like something with a quicker recovery and a bit more capacity. Roughly how much should we be budgeting for this work (ignoring the...

We currently have an open vented / gravity fed system which we are imminently going to replace. Investigating Combis, Unvented etc has lead me to test our various pressures and flows and I have noticed an oddity. Our mains is 12 Litres per Min Our bath hot tap gushes out at approx 20 Litres a...

We have a standard boiler and a Hive 2.0 + Hub wired up. However, we are switching to a combi, will this still work or can it be easily adapted by the plumber; or are we having to buy a new one?

1.8 Bar Standing Pressure - 12.5 Litres Per Minute. Conflicting advice whether this is OK for a combi boiler.

We have gravity fed system and awful shower pressure. We really want this rectified but unsure of the best option. I am thinking either a shower pump or a couple of digital pumped showers. Does anyone have any experience with these two? Partoicually interested in the amount of mess / upheaval...

what should I be paying to replace some radiators, approx 1m by 05.m. Heatable want almost £300 per rad and this seems like a lot.

We've got a new boiler + power flush scheduled for next week. Are they going to have issues with these skinny pipes?

Just about to order a new boiler - upgrading from a GlowWorm Space Saver MKII which I believe is non-condensing. We are going with a standard boiler. We are having a power flush but are being asked if we want new valves and a new pump with it - at a cost of £145 and £195. Do we need these and...

We're in the middle of kitchen refit - attached is a photo of how we'd like the kitchen, specifically with a neat line of wall units rather than the traditional gap for an ugly extractor fan. We have most kitchen designers telling us we need 650mm minimum for an induction hob, whilst one or two...

Looking to order a new kicthen, we have a layout were happy with but just realised we need to add a cooker hood. Can this be fitted by our builders between 2 units or is that a huge problem?

We're after a new boiler due to ours being inefficient. In an ideal world we would have a regular boiler + a shower pump but the 3 guys that came around didn't seem to like this idea. 1) Said we need a combi and confirmed our pressure is good. 2) Said we need a combi but could have a regular...

Just about to get a new boiler - current one is 1985, same age as the house. However I am reading horror stories of pipes leaking due to increased pressure. How likely is this on a 1980s property and is there anything I can do to mitigate this?