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Hi, I have just had a front door and porch door removed from my house and there is now a 700mm strip of bare brick, floor to ceiling, that I need to plaster to get it to blend in with the wall in the hall which is already plastered and painted. The bare brick is on both walls either side of...

Hi, I have bought an integrated Sharp slimline dishwasher and am currently trying to install it, however, the only available space I have for it is between the cooker and a wall (which has an opening of just over 450mm). The instructions say to fit 4 small metal brackets to the machine and...

Yeah, that's what I thought - just a bit nervous about soldering a fitting as I've not done one before (and obviously would then need to buy a blowtorch etc.). Thanks again.

Thanks Terry, I have seen a few TRVs that are 10mm so those would work - I would still need to add a coupler on though as cutting the old one off will lower the TRV so I will need to add a bit of length back onto the pipe to get it back to the same height as the rad. If I was to use a 15mm...

Thanks sirocosm and terryplumb. The pics were really useful to see what's inside the valve. I'll grab some 15mm TRVs and reducers/couplers so that I can add those in if this pipe is 10mm all the way through. I've not tried soldering pipe fittings before so will probably use a 10x10 or 10x15...

Hi sirocosm, Thanks for the reply - that would be really useful if you have pics of your one taken apart - that will probably help me understand better what is going on - I was looking at the valve not long ago thinking it would help if I knew how the parts of the current valve fit together.

Thanks for getting back to me. That makes sense. I was hoping to get away without having to cut the pipe - I'd been looking at BSPP converters to see if the bottom nut could be connected to the thread of a standard trv with some sort of adapter but couldn't find anything that looked like it...

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the quick response. So, going by the picture, is there likely to be an olive on the pipe going into the fitting? I'm just a little worried as I've not replaced a TRV before and I know that there is no "play" in the pipes so I can't really cut any length off the pipe to...

Hi, I am looking to replace some TRVs that have stopped working on 4 radiators, however, the setup looks a little unusual. The pipework is 10mm but the TRV looks like it might be 15mm with some sort of reducer going into the TRV from the pipe. The reducer doesn't look like anything I can find...

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No problem - I did try to delete the other thread but couldn't find anywhere to get rid of it, but now you've answered it I'll leave it as it is as it might be useful to anyone else who made the same mistakes I did. Thanks again. Ian

Thanks for the reply. Sorry, I'm not 100% sure what you mean by re-terminate the crimps though? Are they not connected properly?

Hi Stem, Thanks very much for the response. Apologies, but my post seems to have been added twice within a few seconds of each other (I tried to change the title as I misspelled Central Heating in my original post and appear to have added it twice). Somebody has replied to the original post...