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Following up on squeaky's suggestion, I've been looking at the Franke range of monoblock kitchen taps and they are all listed as requiring either 0.3 or 0.37 or 0.39 bar. My taps are fed from stored hot water with a head of 3.6m to the top level in the cold storage tank that feeds it. The cold...

Thanks squeaky, of course that begs the question: are Franke as good now as they were ten years ago? Let's hope so, and I'll ask SWMBO to look at their range.

Hi everyone, it's time for my new kitchen to be finished off. One of the items is a new swan-neck chrome finish monoblock tap for the new undermount sink. Now, I've been searching around on this forum for quite a bit, and there's lots of posts about these taps and their problems, most of...

Ah, never thought of that one @doitall, thanks. @picasso, no water meter here, although many of the neighbours do have. As it's a bank holiday weekend, I'll not contact the water company yet, but will do later.

Yes, that would be a good explanation. AFAIK, there isn't a NRV in the system, except the one on the outside tap. Do kitchen sink mixer taps have them internally? But even then, it would be in the wrong place to give this effect. The supply to the shower is at the highest point on the...

Hi everyone, I've never encountered anything like this before and wondered if anyone can explain what's causing it? My house has mains water pressure to all the cold taps, the shower and toilet, the cold water storage tank and the heating open system header tank. The cold storage tank seems to...

OK, an update on this, and it has been solved. I was aware that the pipes got crossed somewhere between the under stair and the emergence below the unserviceable cylinder. What I discovered today was that they crossed again behind the cylinder, due to the right hand pipe serving the lower...

Pics? Well, here goes. HtgAccess1 and 2 show the impossible to service DHW cylinder, with the two 22mm connectors above, where I blanked off the feed and vent pipes. HtgPipes1 shows the pipe arrangement in the under stair space. The top horizontal pipe with the pipe thermometer shows the...

Hi everyone. I have a very old central heating system which has been repeatedly modified since inception in the early 60's. We have a Crane Cavalier cast iron boiler (modified to natural gas!) on the ground floor which still works very well, although with some kettleing. Some demented...

Well, it's three months later after a lovely warm summer and the heating is back on. For any others who find this thread because they have the same problem, I cured it in the end by cutting about the pipework in order to blank off the feed and expansion pipes above the cylinder level, broke the...

Thanks for the reply. No, there are no other valves, and I have vented all the radiators and run the pump hard to blow any remaining air around and then re-vented the radiators. There is no way to vent the coil, of course. When flushing out the system, prior to re-filling with the X400 in, it...

Hi folks, I have a very old (1960's) open vent heating system with three circuits: ground floor second floor and domestic hot water cylinder. My practice has been to switch off the heating in the summer, and allow the thermosyphon effect to give us hot water only, and there is a gate valve...

Well, I went and bought a Bosch green drill for the drill stand. B&Q currently have the Bosch PSB 680 RE Compact Hammer Drill at £34.98. Being an old bugger, I have their diamond card and went for it on Wednesday, which gave me 10% off. :D It appears to be identical in every way to the...

I have one of these - and would never recommend it to anyone! The Draper Expert is a wonderful flight of fancy as a machine stand, and utterly useless as a workbench. The overhangs are too small to get clamps under, the aluminium fittings mark up your work, the jaws buckle if you try to get a...

Thanks, I had thought that the best solution may be a cheapo drill for the stand, and an SDS one for everything else. They do add up though! Lidl and Aldi sometimes have SDS machines cheap, and I've wondered if they are any good?