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Always best to isolate. Tap washers can break up or come off as the valve is removed and you've then got to dig around while water floods from the tap body. You may be able to isolate at the gate valve on the feed into the cylinder but these can be unreliable. Lever valves are better. Failing...

With a DFE, no allowance can be made for adventitious ventilation unless specifically mentioned in MI.

If it is 4" soil pipe and there is enough to get a strap on boss onto, then no problem provided you have a trap on the washing machine waste. If its the plastic pan connector, this will have a smaller diameter and won't take a strap on boss. It may be possible, however, to reconfigure the...

Repairable? probably. Worth it? probably not. I'm guessing this boiler is 20+ years old and wasn't the highest quality when new.

It is easy enough to remove the check valves from the tap if not required.

Have you checked the obvious? Did you turn the thermostat up?

Looks like the hose is screwed right up to outlet so it probably isn't compressing the washer and sealing properly. Try adding a second washer.

Are you just trying to push them on? Remove the nuts and the seals and put them onto the pipe first, then offer up the fitting and screw up the nuts. You may have pushed the rubber seals into the fittings and they may need need prising out with a screwdriver.

If you have clear pipe protruding past the olive on each side, you should be ok. Just make sure the fitting stays square with the pipe as its tightened. The other way to do it would be to solder in a slip coupling along the pipe but if you're going that route you may as well solder in a T.

Same advice. Buy a new shower head.

I find the neutral curing Dow Corning 785N easier to work with and much less smelly. You can buy adjustable nozzles for getting into awkward spaces but for a really good finish its best to get the tap out of the way.

There may be a small plastic disc covering the grub screw hole. Maybe with red and blue colours.

There should be an allen grub screw holding the handle on. Under the handle, the cartridge should be held in by a locking nut. Tightening the locking nut may just tighten the cartridge mechanism enough so that it doesn't close under gravity.

Strap wrench will probably slip. Wrap the shroud with a few wraps of insulation tape to protect it (at least 10 turns) and then use pump pliers.

Have a look here and see if you can identify your flush button. You will probably have to buy the whole thing rather than just the pushrod. https://www.toiletspares.co.uk/mechanical-buttons.html

It may have unscrewed itself and be lying in the bottom cistern.

The problem you have is that water is supplied to the hot water cylinder from a small header tank with a very small capacity. If you put a pump in the system, you will rapidly drain the cold water tank and the hot water will stop flowing. This will result in a cold shower and probably a...

Keep hold of the shower though. If you end up with a mains pressure system (combi or unvented) you can use the shower. They are over £700 new so well worth hanging on to.

Haven't fitted many but those I have came from places like Bathstore, Victorian Plumbing and the like. Nothing fitted, supplied components incompatible, bits missing etc etc. Yes it ended up costing more.

Its 15mm pipe. Paint the pipe, fit covers or leave it alone. Whatever the OP chooses to do, this is not a safety issue to worry about where children are concerned. If you have a kid who touches everything and puts stuff in their mouth, they are going to be exposed to much more dangerous stuff...