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I have plumbed in rads in 2 houses using 15mm push fit plastic but the tails from the rads to the tees I did in copper going down vertically then into a solder ring elbow and horizontal into the plastic tee which is mainly concealed by skirting board. In the case of 10mm you should be able to...

Thanks but do you mean as well as the motorised valve or instead? I am not bothered if some or all rads get hot when the pump is not going as the fuel is being burned anyway and the stove will only be used in cold weather. I have a gas cooker for use in summer and the cylinder has an electric...

Sorry but what is an anti gravity valve?

I am installing an Aga type solid fuel cooker with boiler + rads and indirect cylinder. I want it to be pumped CH and gravity DHW. At first I was going to try and manage without any motorised valves but it looks like this could result in a circulation of water through the rads and indirect coil...

I'm not too familiar with Miele but I don't think it's the tacho, especially if it rotates 3 times. To test the effect of a tacho fault you can either remove the magnet from the motor shaft or disconnect one of the wires. You could try asking on UKWhitegoods: http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/

Thanks Stu, yes it is now sorted. I took off the blanking plug in the kitchen and fitted a bibcock and it flowed fine through that and the other taps now work.:)

I have ripped out all the old rusty iron water pipes in my bungalow and started again from scratch using push fit plastic and copper pipes. I have also taken out the old mains pressure electric water heater and put in an indirect cylinder system. This is intended for use with a solid fuel boiler...

I have recently bought a bungalow in Croatia and am in the process of installing a solid fuel central heating system with 7 radiators and an indirect cylinder. I had to bring the cylinder from UK as they don't sell them in Croatia. I particularly wanted gravity hot water as a safeguard in the...

If you use solder ring fittings you don't need much skill but you do have to clean the areas of contact well with wire wool. These days I mostly use plastic push fit pipework as that is very quick and easy. With kitchens I would say the waste side has more potential for problems than the water...

Boiler details: 24i RSF, GC No. 47 311 37. I'm hoping someone else might have had this same problem. I rented my house out for a year or so and when I returned to it the boiler was leaking from one of the joints on the black plastic manifold. This part leaked a few years ago and I cured the...

The bra wire could have broken the piece off and also punctured the tub. If the tub is cracked it may be possible to do a weld repair using a soldering iron. The broken bit might be useful as filler material when doing such a weld.

The one in your link looks to have the controls along the top edge of the door whereas your old one will probably have a fascia panel on the top front face of the door. Your wooden panel therefore won't be tall enough. You need to try and find a dishwasher with a front fascia the same size as...

Did you find anything in the filter, such as a nail? It could be that a sharp object has punctured the tub. There would not be any breather holes low down but there may be blanked off holes that are only needed on certain models but not yours. If it is just a small round hole you can sometimes...

Yes, jetting is the same for butane, propane or butane/propane mix but different for methane (mains gas).

A day or two sounds good enough to me! Flowing water is less likely to freeze and during the day, water will be used regularly, so it is mainly just to stop it freezing overnight, when it can go down to -20 c. If I do still get problems I could use something like the heating bands they make for...

I have had to run a new water supply pipe to my house so that I could incorporate a water filter. The pipework is 25mm alkathene and a few inches are exposed outside, above ground before it goes through the wall. What kind of lagging should I use for this outside pipework?

There is not much to see now, just discolouring of the white painted walls. The old plaster was falling off and some of the bricks were crumbling, as though damaged by frost. I re-pointed the brickwork, re-plastered and eventually painted. This was over a year ago but the paint quickly goes...

Some ovens have a door switch which turns the fan off when the door is opened. If it has this facility the switch may have failed.

As I said, the damp is in the internal walls so none of the causes you mention apply. There are pipes buried in walls but not in the areas that are damp. I thought moisture meters were what surveyors used to check for damp. :?

I suspected that the bottom of some of my internal walls were damp and have now confirmed this using a cheap Lidl moisture meter. The outside walls have a painted on damp course but the internal ones have no damp course at all. I remember when I bought mt first house in 1981 the mortgage lender...