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    Shower Tray Installation Onto Sand / Cement

    personally i use a thick mix of quick set floor tile adhesive, the tray should have a lip where it wont touch the wood ( like a 2x2 cavity) the two edges where the wall are dont need adhesive on as the tray wont be touching it, so leave them clean, put the tray on there put your adhesive on the...
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    Ideal Boilers

    we have fit in the last 6 year over 200 baxi boilers. solo, megaflo, duotec 105he and platinum. not one single problem due to their product, the biggest prob weve ever had is a double check valve on the new style integral filling loop blocked up for which baxi couldnt be blamed, we have lost...
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    Flexi Pipes

    flexis are great for most situations and most expensive monoblock taps come with them if they are wras approved then they are fine, they can split and u should never install comppression fittings in hard to access places but by all means use them if needs must, dont "kink" them either or they...
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    ideal c28 mini going to lockout

    seals are fine, ive had everthing apart and hoovered everthing to try and get it to seal properly, when the boiler decides not to play it could be on hw or ch, its the actual ingintion it struggles with, fan and pump both run fine and it goes through the igntion sequence fine, however now and...
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    Correct shower for boiler

    all new thermostatically controlled shower valves should never go very hot, if their is a difference in pressures to either H or C then the valve will open the cold further. with a combi u still may get this however the more expensive a valve u fit u will only notice a diff in pressure not temp...
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    ideal c28 mini going to lockout

    ive changed pressure vessel and thats cured the pressure rise which was obv. causing it to blow off and ive been told by the ideal rep that it would go to lockout. if it was the pcb why is it only itdoing it now and then? possible loose connection? no signs of any scorching or such, why is gas...
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    ideal c28 mini going to lockout

    ive bn plumbing and htg for 6 years n do far more installations than maintainence, im tempted to change the high limit stat as i think this is the main issue however i know pcbs can be an nightmare in intermittent faults as you more often than not have to buy a new one, however im really...
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    Washing machine, dishwasher double spigot

    personally i dont like the double "tit" method its a bit dodgy should they both run at the same time, i wud defo go with stand pipe for one a tit for other!
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    ideal c28 mini going to lockout

    about 8 yr old, boiler fires fine, goes from 1 bar to 3 bar in no time with a temp rise of 20c - 80c. boiler locks out, i checked pressure vessel, water from valve so i replaced that, now it locks out 90% of the time, will work fine on dhw and ch then all of a sudden stop dead n wont fire, once...
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    Connecting 1 1/2" waste to 40mm waste

    a mechanical connector will seal down to that size, nip it with grips n if it doest spin in joint uve got a fair gud chance of seal, if not its amazing what a ptfe tape washer can seal :D
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    do you know much about ideal mini c28's?

    do you know much about ideal mini c28's?
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