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@wwwebber Ha ha! Just read through your thread. It does make me laugh. You get one 'expert' with a massive ego that all the other sub-experts feel obliged to massage. It's never constructive. It's always about showing how clever they are rather than trying to actually help. If it works for...

Morning So, after draining my system to change a radiator valve and refilling it, we had LOTS of banging and clanging yesterday. That gradually subsided over the day and we had a nice warm house. This morning, the fan was running on the boiler but it wasn't firing. Another person on here...

Thanks, Swaddy. Therein lies the problem. I can't find a bleed screw and I can't seem to find anything about it online. I've just sat down to have another crack at it so maybe I'll have more luck now. I turned the boiler down to 2.5 this morning and it's running lovely and quiet but taken...

While I'm in heating and plumbing mode I thought I'd chuck this one in. We had a shower in the bathroom that my other half got from Freecyle before we met. She'd had it for about 12 years and it worked fine but just needed a update. I replaced it with a £180 Triton thermostatic shower. This...

That's a really sweet setup you have there! I thought I was doing quite well but it looks like I'll need to up my game.

I know this a bit old but I thought I'd chime in as I've just joined and I've got quite a bit of stuff automated in the house. My advice would be to try and keep your system as open as possible. When I started, I went down the Hive route and have since regretted it. I started with the...

Hi all I've just posted in the plumbing forum and noticed the home automation one so thought I'd come and say hello. I'm really addicted to all this home automation stuff and thought I'd start with my current setup. Amazon Dots in the kitchen, garage and car Amazon Echo in the lounge Amazon...

We had a problem with an upstairs radiator not heating up so I part drained the system to replace the valve. In the end, I bought the wrong valve (2 x 15mm connections whereas the old one had a 15mm and a 22mm). Anyway, the valve was jammed closed so I freed it up and refitted it. It's a...

I think it might be. It was fine when I tested it, and I had a shower for about 10 mins. The following morning my other half said that it clicked and went cold on her. I've checked it since, given the shower head a really good clean out and I can't get it to fail. I'm not sure if the noise...

Replumbed this afternoon. Even used solder joints as some are on show and it's lower profile. First time for that! Only took me 3 attempts to get 8 solder joints water tight. First try they all leaked, second try one leaked and all clean on the third try. Output seems much stronger. Only...

I think you're right, bazdaman. It's really tight in there so the flexible host is compressed where it does a turn to go into the shower - not kinked, but it's not fully open either. Just taken the filter on the inlet off and it's as clean as a whistle. Literally about half a dozen little...

The air pocket theory sounds plausible. I'm not a plumber but I'm not daft either (I think). In my head, it sounds like a pump cavitating, a bit like if you open a bottle of fizzy drink slowly. So could be air in there, or lack of water flow. I might remove the isloation valve and flexible...

Shower is a Triton Sensation Location is Andover - hardish water but not to the degree where we should be getting that much out every couple of days when it worked fine for 9 months It should still be under warranty but I haven't contacted Triton yet

The kettle is fine but we use a filter jug to fill it. The thing that strikes me as odd is that the shower was fine for 9 months ish. And the shower before that was about 12 years old. I replaced it when I refitted the bathroom.

I fitted a new electric shower in April last year. It's worked fine until about 6 weeks ago. The head was scaled so I bought a new one. When we started using it, something wasn't right. It would sound like it was boiling in the shower unit, water flow would stop and then it would blow a...