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    Best unrestrctive wall mounted bath taps at 150mm Centers

    1.) Hot water cylinder with a 3.5 shower pump. This bath is connected to the shower pump. 2.) As per the pictures you'll see my existing tap, which takes 60 seconds to fill a bucket. With no tap, it's just less than 30 seconds to fill the bucket. I tried this tap today -...
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    Sludge in water softener.. next steps please

    If it was just hard at the top, it's a salt bridge, this can be broken up at the top so the softener can continue to suck up brine. If it was a slurry mess, this was from bad salt, I've had this myself and it's a PITA, scoop it all out, as you probably know. I'd fill with water and run a few...
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    Best unrestrctive wall mounted bath taps at 150mm Centers

    The short: Can anyone suggest a wall mounted tap/mixer at 150mm centers which offers the best flow rate ? I.e little in way of restriction and a 3/4inch connector? Best I have found is 104.3l/min at 3bar - https://www.bristan.com/product-files/547262/product-data.pdf But these taps are only...
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    More radiators = new boiler?

    Towel rails are between 200-500 watts, unless it's massive. How is your boiler coping at the moment? Is your boiler running at full burn for long periods of time to heat up the house and set at 24KW? I would have thought very unlikely Your only adding one extra radiator, boiler wise I would...
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    Spot that noisy pump

    Any suggestions how to get it out? When I spoke to DAB there's no screw to bleed air, they suggest putting the pump on max to blow it out. I had the pump on max (8M) for hours and didn't get any air out of the rads/vents. Drain the whole system down and rinse out the pump?
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    Spot that noisy pump

    Pump started making a horrible "whirring" noise. Been increasing in frequency over the last few days. Last night it was doing it 90% of the time over 7 hours. Pump is 3 months old, if I set the head to 2M the sound quietens down, I believe that's only due to the rotations being less. Noise...
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    Vailant ecotek plus 438 - Fault 23 (f.23)

    To help others, the dramatic amount of cycling you see in this video under https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/vailant-ecotec-plus-438-slow-house-heat-up-please-help-bucks.509786/ and the F23 code was caused by a "faulty" pump. I hadn't noticed as this had been getting "gradually" worse over the...
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    To help others, the dramatic amount of cycling you see in this video was caused by a "faulty" pump. I hadn't noticed as this had been getting "gradually" worse over the last 4 years, which is when I inherited it. The pump sounded and appeared to be functioning fine, but it obviously was not...
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    Hi Dan, could you quote for a low loss header install for november? Sounds like I'll need to find someone else to fix the existing plumbers work and rectify current issue in the meantime, but I think some bigger independent feeds with a low loss header is the right way to go
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    If anyone has any ideas or a good engineer that can work in bucks, please let me know
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    He's busy till december, unfortunately i can't wait that long
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    Thanks snb. I've made those adjustment. Ever since new zones were added for the extension, the CH doesn't work unless you isolate all radiators bar 1 or 2. Also the ufh always causes am f23 error, anywhere between 20minutes to 4 hours of running. Something is clearly not working properly...
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    Thanks all, fester, i recorded the front display under 2. Or would you like to see something else? Without going llh, will evoplus 80/180m pump, would this help? Improve things in the meantime? How much did you pay for a llh system, i presume i could reuse the 2 pumps i have.
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    Vailant ecotec Plus 438 - slow house heat up - Please help - bucks

    We inherited a house with a newish Vailant ecotec Plus 438 boiler. The heating did always take a while to heat up since living here, since then we have added a few extra radiators and UFH. We have paid various plumbers to improve the system, but if anything it appears worse and takes an absolute...
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    Vailant ecotek plus 438 - Fault 23 (f.23)

    Please help: Background: Had an extension, plumber added UFH (new zone) and another new zone housing 2 towel radiators and 3 radiators (extension) Hot water has been working throughout with no issues (all summer) UFH worked for 2 days solid with no issues. This was turned off to test central...
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    Box gutter - Butyl or Bitumen Flashing tape

    Thanks Chappers, do you have any links to a suggested Fibreglass kit to use? I presume you just mix the liquid with the resin and paint this over all the matting, which I would wrap around the whole thing.
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    Box gutter - Butyl or Bitumen Flashing tape

    Hi Catlad, if you grind the bracket out that will also be removing the gutter supports to the wall. This could/will mean it's not being supported properly, so you would have to support it underneath somehow instead. The brackets are also what's holding the gutter together, by removing them...
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    Box gutter - Butyl or Bitumen Flashing tape

    MW Roofline, Thanks for your reply. I am 1000% sure it's coming in via that bracket. I made the two slits in that flashing that you see. It was like this (see raised bit of flashing): I put the slit in so that the lead sits flush in the gutter and that bit in the middle sits on the bracket...
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