Recent content by jonw

Yes, I noticed that in the video. Worth thinking a bit more about. I had fast recovery time before I lowered the temp from 75 degrees, in the order of 20-25 mins if the HW tank isnt completely cold ( say 25-30 deg). CH off for 25 mins would probably be ok in this house.

Thanks JonathanM. That's what I wanted to know. The video is good, very informative. Although slightly different to the boiler in the video (mines probably older) my boiler does appear to have seperate switched lives for HW and CH. Its good to know it might be a possibility- I'll check with the...

Hi experts, I have a Ideal Vogue system conventional boiler 26kW, plus megaflo (installed about 7 years ago). Recently I lowered the boiler central heating temp to 63 degrees down from much higher. The user manual calls this the central heating flow temp control. It lowered the temp of the flow...

Yes that's right . The time with the kitchen he made two visits. On the bathroom haven't had the first visit yet, only been two days since notified. No walls closed up yet where the wiring is, back box for fan isolator just above door outside bathroom easy access for cable from ceiling. In...

Nonsense! Notifying the local authority (with paper work and fee) and having them arrange the inspection and sign off and issue part p certificate is a perfectly legitimate way of doing it. They have their own retained electricians they use for this - I don't get to choose who signs it off.

thank you for your concern ban-all-sheds, but don't fret, it is true. I have given notification to building control so that notification will remain open until it is signed off. The house will be up for sale after this work is complete so it's in my interest to sign it off otherwise it will...

Thanks Holmslaw. Appreciate the straight forward response.

...so you don't know then! :wink:

Hi, I am fitting a mirror with light which has an infrared proximity switch (just wave you hand near it to turn on, same again to turn it off). I want to be able to operate it independent of the bathroom lights. To allow this it will require unswitched live to power the touch switch electronics...

Paul348, just wondering what you thought of the Vitrex Pro 900 - warts and all. cheers jon

yes I think air is getting up the surrey flange and i think the reason it wasn't a problem before is that it was only driving one shower. Now that I 've added pipework there is a place for it to collect. I intend to do the following; 1. rotate the T coupling to be horizontal or lower, add...

digdilem, that latest drawing is a suggestion of what i might do next. The existing plumbing is the same as that but w/o the vent and with the T inverted possibly encouraging any air bubbles to collect in that piece of the pipework when the ensuite shower is running. picasso, yes but...

Richard, from the top of the tank. The surrey flange has two outlets - the one for the pump comes out horizontally and the top vertical one for the vent and other hw services. I also have another theory. The T for the new connection to over-bath-shower is pointing upwards. As the water rushes...

thanks for your suggestion. I already set the temp lower to 55 deg C last week after reading about it somewhere on this forum -although it was set to 60 deg c before I made the changes there was no problem with air. The new bit in the diagram is just inserting a the tee for the bathroom into...

Thanks for the reply. Attached is a hand drawn schematic. Interestingly enough when I turn the isloation valves off in the bathroom the problem does not occur, seems to impy thats where the air is which is why I suggested perhaps thats where the air gets in (not sure how though). Makes no...