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Hi all, My mum has an outdoor grant vortex oil combi boiler which has seemingly burst its main storage tank . Looking online I'm struggling to find a replacement, does this usually render the boiler dead? Understandably this is a huge expense and total boiler replacement is not covered on the...

Just remove the radiator for the time it takes? Gonna end up with a ****ty job behind the radiator

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/18/rail-strikes-cost-uk-1bn-and-settling-would-have-been-cheaper-minister-admits Classic tory behaviour

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To be fair the lights could go off on your landing and you fall down the stairs

Out of interest, at what point are building regs and planning permission required? If you had a garage you want to insulate and fit a radiator in but one you'll never inhabit as a bedroom does this fit into the regs requirements?

Thanks for that! We have only recently purchased this property and boiler was already fitted. I'll get a plumber in to service the boiler and at the same time look at sorting out the capped pipework. Hopefully it's been terminated properly but just capped on one end whilst working. We live...

There aren't 2 x 22mms

Say it was a rising mains, and this was an old water heater. How would it work when it came to fitting a new combi? What old and new connections would be used?

I was talking about the uncapped. My worry is that the capped one is mains water and I've been at risk. Surely the people removing the tank and fitting the combi shouldn't have left it like this?

Not once have I been talking about not tracing pipes that are capped

I'm confused. There's 3 pipes uncapped which I'm cutting below the floor and capping. These don't appear to be linked to the water supply as obviously nothing is coming out of them. The third pipe, which is capped, i'm unsure if it's gas, rising mains or just empty but I'll be getting a...

I'm not going to chase pipework around the house as I've no idea where source is? What's the issue with dead legs? Surely what I'm doing now is better than was originally done?

A photo I took before the carpet went down was this (photo taken from room where airing cupboard was). But It's impossible to tell if the gas had a line off it

So delving deeper into the floor the 15mm and 22mm pipes that are running together are both 'free moving' under the floor. I am tempted to pull them out but as I can't trace them under the floor I'll just cap them. I would rip the carpet up but it's freshly laid in the hallway and goes back...

A 15 year old diesel can return 70+mpg, what's your point?

I say the same to my mrs, never works. Unfortunately I don't know how fast a water pipe warms

Yes there's a tank in the loft that's been disconnected.

Yesh the capped is one of the ones that's parallel to another. The other pipes that run parallel are the 22mm and the 15mm that are perpendicular to the others. Out of interest, what are the 4 pipes likely to be? In terms of arrangement so I can trace them. If the capped one is water will...

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