Recent content by Tporter23

This was the one I had trouble with today - what’s the baffle inside for ?

Cold outlets all fine just the hot

I have just been to exactly the same issue , all hot outlets blocked mesh filter; previous engineer just replaced the combination valve, I believe it’s the baffle inside breaking up and causing it to scale - new cylinder needed

I’m an heating engineer and I always try and sway people away from wanting these kind of radiators due to these issues, you can not go wrong with just a standard white radiator convector from places like Screwfix - or them towel rails are cheap enough to buy - and will work regardless of...

Usually the vertical rads have the INLET on the left hand side So if your flow is coming in on the right (right valve getting hot first from cold) my suspicions are it will be piped up the wrong way around causing the baffle inside to not circulate correctly , swap flow and returns around under...

Sounds like a common plate heat exchanger issue

If you can measure the temperature on the hot coming out the boiler and that is the same as the other hot outlets except the shower I would suspect the shower cartridge/mixer needs attention. A fan replacement has no effect on the performance of the hot water temperature, although other parts in...

Thanks for the reply my plan was to sleeve the 40mm in 50mm and the 2 hot and cold supplies in some 32mm or something. Just a decent chase through concrete about 1.5m . Got plenty of room on the external wall to core through and still have a good drop to the gulley

Hi all wondering if anyone could give me any pointers I’ve been asked to first fix some pipework to a kitchen island . Trouble is it’s half wooden floor and half concrete. Im hoping I can get the correct fall to outside. I’m using solvent weld 40mm waste and plastic hot and cold hep20. Any...