Recent content by rajpatel50

Hi All, Had a corgi engineer come in to give us a landlord gas certificate. Said the Megaflow needed 3 outlets (which were originally just tapped off) to have pipework thats run-off to external drain. Did the work but now the heating is not working. No rads are heating up and can't hear...

Hi All, We have very old (and crumbly) insulation in our loft. Is it OK to just put the new insulation on top of this or should we completely remove the old insulation first? Thanks

_______________________________________ lynda, moderator please read forum rules. I could not split your post and still have it make sense

I believe there was 1 T junction after it came into the kitchen. 1 routed the cold water upstairs and the other to the boiler through the kitchen where it came up via an elbow into pipeing for the boiler. The pooling doesn't occur near either of these but thats not to say they are not the source...

Hi All, About 1 month ago we had a new 22mm blue pipe laid under our kitchen to supply our new boiler and the rest of the house. It was then concreted over and tiled. Just recently we have notice on occassions some water pooling on the tiles which we suspect is coming up through the...

New metal scalemaster installed and all seems to be OK. On removal of the green pushfit one we saw what we think contributed to the pinholes. The back of the scalemaster was quite charred. I guess from when the fitter was working with the blowtorch on the adjacent pipes. There is clearly a...

Sorry, meant 25mm bluepipe

Just out of interest, anyone know what could cause these pinhole leaks in the green pushfit scalemaster? I would have thought you need quite a bit of force to do this (we did upgrade to a 50mm blue pipe for our cold water supply)

Thanks for your replies. We're gonna try and get the gold (non-push fit) one fitted

any more recommendations on a good quality water softener? Also I'm guessing I need it to be the same size as the one i currently have and the same style (push-fit) otherwise this will mean extra plumbing right? If I'm not in a hard water area, do we need the de-scaler at all? Would you...

Any recommendation on what "a decent one" might be?

Hi All, When we had a new combi boiler installed we had a Scalemaster (15mm Magnetic Speedfit) fitted on the cold water pipe just before it enters the boiler. Yesterday we came home to a flooded kitchen after about 4 weeks use of the new boiler. From my laymans eyes it appears that several...

Just an update. My fitter returned and made an adjustemnt to a valve which I beleives connects the flow and return and this seems to resolve the issue with rads now heating up as they use to.

You can usually get manuals online if you do a search. Here are manuals for ecoTech range http://www.gasapplianceguide.co.uk/vaillant_ecotec_plus_combi.htm

Had a Vaillant EcoTech 831 installed to replace a conventional boiler. Initially rads upstairs were OK but most of downstairs very very slow to heat up (several hours) with 1 not working at all. Now a few days later all of downstairs not working after 3 hours running and 1 upstairs not working...