Recent content by dolph

Thanks chaps, photos would be difficult it is on fourth floor, but it is basically a straight piece of wire 9 feet long along one wall. For the moment situation has been solved by persuading my son to change position of his bed!! I like the idea of hiding in pointing this would be so much...

I have a bedroom with a balcony. I wish to install a socket next to bed. I have double gang socket, nine feet away that I can tap into, go outside along wall and back through outside wall directly to side of bed, I believe a spur would suffice. Alternatively I can rip up wooden floor laid 3...

As I should have expected, following discussions with my sons yesterday, before the haze of wine, beer etc. took over, they confirmed your consensus view to be correct. It would be much preferable for the towel warmers to be connected to central heating as in the summer the flat gets so hot...

Thank you all so much for taking the time to consider my "project". No NRV required saves me effort. As regards hot water flow and return to Towel Warmers my own in my own home, which was built in the 70's, have supplied two towel warmers and one larger bathroom rad. The system is connected to...

Grateful for the quick response, initially it was my intention not to put in the non return valve, but a comment by a builder in the local pub started me thinking that perhaps in the summer convection from returning hot water would find the way back to radiators - you have put my mind at rest...

The renovation of my sons flat is well underway. As regards central heating I followed the advice on here and have gone the manifold route. Due to there being only four radiators I have been able to connect from manifold to radiators in Speedfit with no intermediate joints. Just a couple of...

Thanks to all that replied I am very grateful, as always. I have decided to stick to the existing set up and as the cold tank will now be 5/6 feet above the taps, the pressure should be better. As the cold outlet from the cold tank in question will be in 22mm pipe, could I get away to feed the...

Thanks to all of you for replying. Newboy this is the present set up :- Rising main enters property on 2nd floor, feeds the kitchen sink tap, then continues upstairs to 3rd floor "utility room" where the cold water tank is situate, where it terminates filling it with a ball valve. It goes...

Many thanks for coming back so quickly. Whilst the rising main pressure on a third floor flat is not brilliant at times it is far better than the pressure from the cold storage tank, it would also be quieter in the middle of the night!!

Well into the refurbishment of my sons' flat but I have come across something that puzzles me. My own property has all the cold water to the taps supplied direct from the rising main. This flat has the kitchen tap supplied by the rising main but all the other cold outlets are supplied from the...

Muggles sorry about the time to get back re your question re flow into house, unfortunately the flat is 120 miles from where I live and until we get full landlord permission to alter I go down infrequently. Down there yesterday, incoming waterflow into house was14.8 ltpm mid afternoon 13.7 ltpm...

I have just posted a thread and noticed your own query. Some 17 + years ago I did exactly in two ensuites what you are proposing, the only difference was that I had the Y (well 45degree) join facing the other way so both discharges went in the same direction (imagine a sliproad joining the...

I am trying to get to grips wth how many showers can be run off one source, as I have mentioned previously we are updating my lads' flat, by creating an ensuite. It would be far easier to have a combi boiler as space is at a premium, but I am told that such would not run two showers. In my own...

I have an existing system, cold water tank in loft, hot cylinder in airing cupboard with shower pump on floor next to this, never had any trouble with the showering capabilities to two showers at same time. Piping to pump comes from cold water tank by a separate outlet, with the pipe from the...

Unfortunately some of the copper pipe is above the skirting board, has had about 6 coats of cracked paint when above floor, some of the joints have green/white "powder" round them, the remainder is buried in concrete with no covering as far as I can see. It was fitted in 1976 and only operates...