Recent content by Madrab

Yes - The 'breather' pipe at the top is open to the vessel and it's under atmospheric pressure - it acts exactly like the vent on a Open Vent HW cylinder It will only be used when there is a fault condition and the HW overheats and expanding beyond the confines of the cylinder, either that or...

If it's in between the KS and the outside wall then yes.

Only if the syphon is acting up (struggling to flush), if not then only the fill valve's needed.

Primary issue (edit spell) with that is usually the legs - the tray is on a riser kit and that has probably compounded the issue, allowing the tray to move and eventually burst the seal. That then allowed to tray to move more and more and on it goes. Looks like once the tray has moved then the...

Either will go it there - either the ball type torbeck replacement or Fluidmaster type. Both need to be bottom inlet, get one with a brass bottom shank thread, plastic are a nightmare to DIY.

If it isn't marked then unlikely you'll find the actual make as there will likely be a million patterned copies from Asia. No point in measuring the O-Rings either as the ones in there will be worn and wont give accurate dimensions. If you really want to replace them then get a set of...

Use a 12mm piece of WBP/hardwood ply to fit the space between the batons - span it over 3 if you can - the PLY is the same depth as the plasterboard - then tile over the whole thing, marking where the wood is it is. Use nice fat M6 screws to hang the cistern brackets, in as many fixing points as...

Are you talking about the basket waste that fits into the waste hole of the sink? If so then you need to get a 11/2 bowl sink waste and trap kit. Something similar to this As far as the shelves are concerned -presume it's going into a normal kitchen cabinet? Then you have to work round the...

If you can stop using it then no reason no to - even then though I'd get in touch with someone to at least have a look just now and then if they ask for it to be left, if it can, then take it from there.

The ideal is to have a separate pump for anything but the smallest of UFH zones. This allows the UFH to be much more controlled, balanced, managed etc as a separate entity to the radiator system. The fine tuning of UFH is different to the radiators. It allows the separate zones to be better...

Use the adapters as suggested but you will need to get 2 nuts and olives to fit them to the ISO valves.

Ouch .... was only joking

If you're attempting it yourself - you must use gloves and at least an FFP2 mask. Wash yourself and your clothes thoroughly, immediately afterwards. Loads of advice online on how to deal with it and transport it - you can also get a list of recycling areas online that will accept it, as long as...

A universal pump is one that can deal with either negative or positive pressure due to the pressure vessel it uses - a positive pressure pump may struggle when the available gravity head of pressure (height of water in cold cistern above the outlet) is low. Universal pumps tend to be more...

Possibly - if you can get the feed off the tap diverter Or you could use a rigid riser that then has a shower hose that feeds it.