Recent content by needalittlehelp

thank you guys Any thoughts on whether I arrange a repair with zinc (as original) or lead a JohnD suggested Does the dome shape make the repair easier or more tricky. cheers

If anyone can help, I need to have a contractor paint some waterproof gunk on my edwardian zinc roof (viz water ingress into the bay window). I understand that either 'flexacryl' or 'cromapol' should do the job. Does anyone have experience of either of these 2 products (or maybe a...

adding more detail; a new boiler was fitted (combi in replacement to gravity feed) where the pipework was carried out by a City & Guilds plumber (does that show a competant level of plumbing skills ?) & some old copper was kept together with new plastic piping - copper work was not...

Hello I recently posted an issue on this forum relating to a problem on pipework; when an emergency plumber looked at some work that I had had done, he said that plumbers need to 'self certify'. Also he said that there are high fines imposed by trading standards (I think) for work 'not up...

Thank you to all, You will see from the 1st post (but maybe it was not made clear by me) that the connector that blasted off the copper HOT water pipe that feeds the upstairs bathroom was plastic. The process of blasting off the plastic connector seemed to be initiated by turning on (&...

Thanks Gasguru. I see you don't have much faith in hepworth, as I need to get my head clear on which way to go & need to get hot water back to the bathroom pretty soon, are you saying; its OK to keep the plastic push on connectors on the Cold copper pipes (so long as they are not hepworth) &...

thanks ror reply; fitting was either polypipe or hep2o (located at the horizontal to vertical H/W supply to the upstairs bathroom.(ie 90 deg angle). Fitted on old copper on the horizontal run (before the joint) and new copper on the vertical. The joint is about 2.5 m from the boiler. a few...

hello people, I am in need of some incisive thinking please. I had a new boiler fitted about 8 weeks ago (plumber is C & G & gasman is corgi). No problems until 3 days ago when a plastic elbow/spigot blasted off the hot water run from the boiler to the bathroom when my wife turned on (& off) a...