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    Kitchen sink won't unblock and I'm running out of ideas.

    Stop eating meat. That will prevent further blockage.
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    Water drip in tundish unvented cylinder

    Close the valve that feeds cold mains water to inlet controls of cylinder. Open a hot tap and leave it open. Wait for water to stop coming out. Leave the tap open. Locate the Schraeder valve on the expansion vessel. Use a mechanical 'pen' type pressure gauge to check the pressure. Pump up...
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    Kitchen sink won't unblock and I'm running out of ideas.

    Watch out with that "strongest drain unblocker". If you use it you must follow the instructions to the letter. Too much too quickly and the heat generated can melt open the solvent weld joints, possibly on a joint that is inaccesible.
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    210L Megaflow big enough?

    Depends on their levels of personal hygiene. Personally I can wash with half a bucket of cold water, given the option.
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    boiler instalation

    And if the screws holding the boiler in the wall are only 5mm into the brick?? How will the RGI know?
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    Water pump leak.

    And a bit more http://www.ropesandtwines.com/products.asp?cat=17
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    Leak help needed! (please :-)

    An auto air vent at the top of a pipe that goes up and down again from a tank would be used to prevent air locks, but could also cause them!
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    Shower - Hot and cold plumbed wrong way, or not?

    A runaway positive feedback loop...
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    Gas & electric meter locations ?

    Fraud protection.
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    Connecting basin to old lead waste pipe

    Don't know where Angus is but I'll guess it's in Scotland I repaired a client's wet room with CT1 last year and charged her £75. The wetroom folks wanted £ 750 or something like that. It is still good. I but my T1 from M.P. Moran on London but you will have to contact the manufacturer to...
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    Vokera Compact 28 losing pressure daily!

    £15 quid for a bottle of inhibitor. Drain a towel rail / rad and fill with 1 L of inhibitor then open valves and bleed . Simples..
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    Redoing CH pipes in plastic

    I reckon a piece of Polyplumb is far more tolerant of being bashed by a hoover than a piece of copper.
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    How to hurry up water company to change the stop cock

    Give the bugger a go - maybe it will burst. That'll speed things up.
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    Teens killed in car crash..

    The logic is more like "If we're going to be brutally murdered sooner or later, why worry about road safety??
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    Teens killed in car crash..

    Not in South Africa, where they drive like idiots, especially the affluent white people.
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    Shower - Hot and cold plumbed wrong way, or not?

    Crosswater shower valves are a bit dodgy, I have found. Even the replacement cartridges can play up even when new. I believe that on coldest setting the valve shuts off the hot flow, so if it was piped the wrong way round, then the water would come out ho on the coldest setting. I have...
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    toilet waste

    A career as an architect for you, quite obviously...
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    How to hurry up water company to change the stop cock

    Those ancient stopcocks - if you turn them hard enough they will fracture and you get a small geyser on the pavement.
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    Redoing CH pipes in plastic

    I prefer grey PolyPlumb to John Guest - the fact that JG is de-mountable makes me more wary for underfloor use! Grey polyplumb can be opened up but harder to re-use.
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    Kitchen sink waste not McAlpine?

    Fat bit of rubber pipe and a jubilee clip..bit like a Fernco. If done well is very reliable.
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