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hello all Just after a bit of advice, I am having new kitchen work tops fitted, they are just loose fitted at the moment and the joiner has had to go to another job for a couple of days, however the mitred joint (I believe it's known as a Masons Mitre) is tight at the front end with a 1mm gap at...

Thanks Muggles, I was hoping nearer £3000 than £10,000!

Hello All In the near future I will be moving into a two bed dormer bungalow and will be renewing the boiler and rads probably most of the existing pipe work will remain if memory serves me correctly about 8 rads, any idea of a ball park figure on what I should expect to pay, assuming decent...

glasgowgas radiator make will be myson lst super, not sure how this helps.

Bengasman/Doitall, thanks for your time and input, everything you say is quite correct, there is however a little bit more to the job than you are aware the client has specified that absolutely no controls or pipes are to be on show in the room even the cover on the rad has to be scurely screwed...

1 Bengasman agreed balancing would not be easy. 2 glasgowgas being able to turn a rad off or on is temp control, i was refering to degrees inbetween. 3 doitall an lst radiator is what it says, a radiator with a low surface temperature, this is a standard rad with an outer cover usually...

I have been asked to fit a low surface temp radiator, there is no requirement to have any temperature control on this rad it just needs to be hot in winter and off in summer, in place of standard rad valves i am thinking of installing two 1/4 turn full bore ball valves, the circulation in this...

It may be worth checking that the waterways in the toilet pan are clear(unfortunately could involve removing the poilet) i had this problem recently and the syphon had sucked up debris from the cistern and deposited it in some of the holes in the waterways of the toilet pan, thus creating more...

sorry misread the post pressure relief already been stated.

is that not a pressure relief valve? as opposed to reducing?

i would appreciate any advice on the following, a friend has asked me to take a look at his kitchen taps where one solid tail is leaking where it enters the tap, the tap is a few years old,would it be possible to unscrew the tail apply ptfe tape to stop the leak or is it time for a new tap?

I would appreciate any help on the following problem. I am a maintenance fitter working within a number of care homes, just recently most of the cold taps within one of our homes have been passing hot water, most of the cold water taps are tank fed and there are quite a number of thermo mixer...