Recent content by Raggie

Guys, I have a Bristan Artisan shower in the bathroom, I have a problem in that the valve to turn it on/off is very stiff, meaning with wet hands it will not turn. During the last central heating service, I had the engineer look at the valve, he removed it and lubricated it, and for...

Thanks. That's the plan. It seems to be the only solution. My argument is in a two year old house that the builder holds some responsibility. So if I can find a regulation or guideline somewhere I can quote I have chance to hold them to account. Failing that I will just pick up the...

Thanks. Because of the design of roof, where each side of the roof has what an best be described as "walls" so the roof is recessed between these walls, with guttering at the base means snow collects in an abundance. I guess if there are no regulations then my fight with the builder will...

Vertical tiling does not a roof make.. Lol. If vertical I wouldn't have a build up of snow...and no problem lol. The roof is probably 15deg off the vertical (need to do some better Calcs to prove that figure), 6m wide at bottom, 9m wide at top, and 12-15m in height

Hi, Can anyone advice if there are any design constraints on the maximium pitch of a slate roof. Anything in building regulation? We have a very steep and high slate roof, which means in every snow fall we get a substantial weight of snow in te guttering causing the guttering to fail...

Thanks Dan.. will give that a go... Rags

Thanks Dan, Its a Potterton Promax 24/2 HE pump is a CP53, set to run on position 3. currently bypass is set to be just under 1. all the rads get up to temp fast (expect the last one in the loop) which takes 20 mins or so... it is quite a way from the rest of the loop though...

A question for the experienced masses. We live in a a three story town house. Each floor has a Honeywell room thermostat and all but one radiator has trv fitted (ground floow by thermostat - hallway). Hot water is via stored cylinder There is a honeywell two zone 7 day programmer...