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thanks for the advice. and yes its a joke isnt it? i have a feeling he wont agree to do any further work. he is actually a sub-contractor to the builder that i have employed to do the extension so it really lies with the builder to sort i guess as hes the person im paying. my thoughts are if the...

Exactly yet that swear blind im being ridiculous

thanks for the reply. That attached will hopefully show this mess a bit clearer for all. The ones that aren’t working as they should are mainly the last two rad on the first floor and the end one that drops to the ground floor (that one isn’t as bad)

So to update : I’ve today had the cylinder replaced and yes it was damaged so we have clean hot water in the hot taps and clean cold water in the cold! However we still have the ongoing issues with the heating to the extension. From having further checks I think the pipework is undersized and...

many thanks for the advice. the original plumbers have been back several times now and seem to be making things worse around the house! for example they came over the weekend to reconnect the new wc after they damaged the new flooring, they did it (or at least i was told they had) and so the...

Don’t worry about the sentinel, that’s just left on the shelf that’s all! It seems to point to the cylinder failing I guess but I’m concerned what has caused it really as don’t want it to happen again??

Could it be a case of reconnecting the pipework incorrectly or the cylinder has failed? I’m just at a loss!! Ps. I’m right in saying that the general gist is that the pump installation is rough and untidy isn’t it?!?

I’m not sure. I first thought it was from the header tank above but I’m not sure it is. The hot water is entering via the pipe from the bottom right of the the cylinder but don’t understand why?

Poor isn’t it? any ideas into the problem would be welcome. System ran fine before these mods

Ok so the larger of the two tanks is now empty and it appears that the pipe that connects to the cylinder is feeding hot water into the tank?? See attached pic that I’ve labelled the pipe. If anyone can offer any advice why this would happen please do.

Maybe this will help? Just drawn this out and currently have the cold taps on with the ball valve held up so I can see which pipe is letting the water in.

Here’s some more...

Ok here we go:

doesnt appear to be one?

Yes It appears the CH water is findings its ways into the tank above the cylinder?? not sure about the 3pv. Where would this be? I know there’s an old control valve under the floor boards up there as from memory once upon a time the previous owner had a single rad connected to the HW.

Hi. We are currently having an extension built which includes adding 6rads, removing 2 rads, a towel rail along with a basin, toilet and shower. Since this additions to the plumbing we are having a number of issues: the heating is all over the place - cold rads which will then be hot the...

OK, so i got an OFTEC engineer out to look at the boiler & he said that he would remove the boiler & replace it with an external combi. He has quoted a collossal £3000!!! I said to him that can i not just replace the existing Trianco wall hung boiler with a new Trianco wall hung boiler (about...

does anyone know of a decent OFTEC engineer in the stoke-on-trent area? The tank is lower than the boiler which is wall mounted. The valve arrangement off the tank is: Tank - IV - level guage - CV - filter - into building - IV - boiler. Does this sound correct? The tank seems quite old...

Perhapos it may help if i explain in a bit more detail. I have recently moved into a house that has been vacant for about 18 months & had the central heating system drained down. The boiler is an oil-fired Trianco Redfyre 17kw Centrajet that had clearly never been looked after. After a long...

the engineer has replaced the motor & driveshaft on the boiler & it still doesnt work so he has said the burner will need replacing. Is this an expensive job?