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    Toilet Thud on Flush

    Sorry, should have said 2/3. It’s not dual flush. Always empties entire cistern, apart from now.
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    Toilet Thud on Flush

    About a year ago our main toilet started to dribble after flush had ended. I replaced a small rubber disc (can’t recall the name) and that solved that problem. Last few weeks it started to dribble again. Thought I’d deal with it another time due to lockdown etc. May be completely unrelated...
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    Grey Gritty Sludge Blocking Shower Filter

    Thank you. Will be calling British Gas on Monday and letting them know. They will still want to come out to assess it, but saves a wasted repair. How can they tell that the tank is kaput? Is it an easy diagnose for them or subjective?
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    Grey Gritty Sludge Blocking Shower Filter

    That doesn’t sound good at all. On the plus side. We rent the property and the entire system is covered by British Gas care which the landlord pays for. So one way or another, apart from the hassle and disruption, the cost won’t be my problem. no idea on age of cylinder. I think the entire...
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    Grey Gritty Sludge Blocking Shower Filter

    Thank you. That is exactly what it looks like inside the cartridge filter
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    Grey Gritty Sludge Blocking Shower Filter

    Someone at work said it could be limescale from the hot water cylinder and maybe the system needed power flushing? We had a faulty PRV on the HWC about 6 months ago and it had to be drained to be fixed. Could the refilling have dislodged crap from the tank I wondered. By coincidence, we have...
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    Grey Gritty Sludge Blocking Shower Filter

    Hi Everyone I had an issue recently where my shower slowed to a trickle (bar shower mixer fed by unvented cylinder for hot and mains for cold). Plumber replaced whole shower as when dismantled it was full of limescale and a grey sludge he said he’d never seen before. New shower works great...
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    Very Low Shower Pressure

    Forgot to add. When using the shower you can hear a screeching/whistling noise from the bar. I assumed if something was restricting flow then the noise is the sound of water trying to force past. Interestingly, while trying to work out which calve isolated shower last night, I turned shower on...
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    Very Low Shower Pressure

    Photo attached hopefully. It is the only one I have on my phone. Can take more when home later. The shower head is a fixed rain shower type head. The pipe for which goes upwards on the picture. There is also a handheld hose which comes out of the bottom on the picture. Although we live in...
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    Very Low Shower Pressure

    Looking for some guidance please. We have a wall mount shower mixer. The bar type with an on/off tap on one side and a temperature control tap on the other. For a long time the mixer tap has been stiff and only had a limited range of motion so we could never turn it to full cold or full hot...
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    Boiler Sounds Like a Car Ticking Over

    Rough again this morning around 6am but normal again at 7am. The other day when I first heard it was around 6am, and yesterday when it sounded fine it was about 7am so this could go with the theory of pressure drop at peak time. I think I will call the plumber today for advice and see what...
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    Boiler Sounds Like a Car Ticking Over

    No fault code or anything unusual on the display. And yes, it was in what would have been the morning rush I guess. Kept an ear out last night and this morning but nothig too unusual coming from it. No point calling a plumber out as without the noise present they will probably struggle to...
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    Boiler Sounds Like a Car Ticking Over

    Interesting. So it could be low gas pressure. If the gas supply can't cope with the morning rush hour then we are screwed on Christmas morning! Could this really be the cause though?
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    Boiler Sounds Like a Car Ticking Over

    Vaillant ecoTec Plus 937
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