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I have finally decided upon my hot water system. Having discussed it with Building Control I now know that I can't have an unvented system without too much upheaval, so I've decided to go for a vented set up. To save space I'm having a mains-fed Triton remote Aspirante shower (fitted with my own...

Do you mean it's not big enough for a kitchen sink? Thanks for tips on expansion everyone. Heatrae say that you need an expansion vessel and check valve if you have less than 4.2 metres of pipe from the 15L hotflo to the nearest cold branch. It's 2.4 metres for the 10L version. If there's a...

would be required in order to supply a kitchen sink and bathroom basin (no bath, shower is electric) in a one bed flat? I've been looking at the LWC 50 litre cylinder but wondered if I might get away with a 15L Heatrae Hotflo. Cheers.

Excuse my ignorance but what is a multicoil?! Presumably it's a cylinder with a special type of coil?

Cheers, that could well be an option. Would I be able to use my own shower head or would I have to use the one supplied?

First of all, there is no gas and whatever system I go for it needs to be less than 500mm in depth because that's how big the cupboard is and for various reasons it cannot be made any bigger. I also don't have a loft space. The central heating will be electric and there is no bath so it will...

Hi all. Is it OK to feed the discharge pipe from an unvented system such as a Megaflo into a 40mm plastic shower waste pipe (or linear shower drain) which in turn feeds into the soil stack? I was thinking of a run along these lines: Unit - metal pipe - tundish - metal pipe - shower...

It's on the top floor so above me is just a flat roof. The room is an open plan kitchen/ living room so I was going to split it into two areas for lighting; the kitchen with 3 lights and the living room with 6. Each area will have its own dimmer switch.

How many dimmable 50w downlights would you all recommend for a room of 17ft by 11ft? The ceilings are 8ft high. I think 9 (3 x 3) but have been advised that 6 ( 3 x 2) would be more than sufficient. Also, the ceiling is 12.5mm plasterboard with a skimmed finished so would 60 minute...

Wedi say that there should be no airspaces between their board and the sub floor though so battens or wedges would need to be covered by a sheet material which would mean putting a step in the floor. They even go so far as to say when you put the adhesive down onto the sheet flooring (ie the...

I am making a wet room using 12.5mm Wedi backer over chipboard. I can't access the joists below the chipboard so can I just create a fall by feathering the tile adhesive or would I need to use another method? I don't really want to raise the floor in the shower area because there would then...

If my camera is working then I'll take some. I'm hoping it's just flat batteries which are recharging now but there wasn't so much as a flicker earlier so I fear it could be more serious.

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!

Are you sure they're 4x3 joists under the bathroom? I'd think twice about getting in the bath if they are! I think the answer to the 3 questions is no, yes, maybe. The wires should be ok near to the pipes, I think combi boilers are ok off spurs and the extractor fan might be ok but it will...

I haven't opened the consumer unit to look but the black wire goes in separately to the other three. I can kill all the power to the cable by going downstairs to the communal cupboard where the meters are, finding mine and and switching it off. I've had a look on Google and I'm now pretty...