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Hi, I have a towel rad in my kitchen and it has an electric heating element fitted (the rad is also fed by ch). I want to get rid of the element but then the rad valve/pipe would need to be moved (new hole through wall etc - lot of mess) because its offset to the inside of the rad...

Hello, I am fitting a new wc but when it is positioned with the cistern against the wall part of the pan at the rear sits over the soil pipe connection point. That means the cistern and pan will have to be fitted about 60mm from the wall and I'd prefer not to have to do this. If I could cut...

I have used a few gate valves around my home in the past and I have found them unreliable i.e. not closing fully. So I have fitted FBBVs' instead. They don't seem to weep around the ball but the spindles do weep sometimes after they have been operated although they stop after a couple of days or...

I think that only gas combis' modulate - oil models just cycle. Kindly correct me if I am mistaken. Some combis' have an internal storage tank that is heated up before hot water can be drawn off meaningfully and although you do not get instantaneous hot water initially this gives better...

Exactly 1640 / 1650? B&Q have an 'Aloha' bath 1600x750. Too short? B&Q - www.diy.com

I have a W. Bosch combi in my garage and that is the last appliance fed from the cold water pipes but hot water performance doesn't drop off too much when cold taps are operated. However I did put in a 22mm cold supply to the boiler and everything else is teed off in 15mm. Perhaps you need to...

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Hi, In a well maintained CH system what colour would one expect the water to be if it were drained?

Thought it was the ev but no water from valve. Let sys press down to 0 and disconnected braided hose at ev end. Water blasted out from ev but none from hose. Disconnected hose other end and jet of water from boiler. Hose gunged up with black stuff. Cleaned it out. System not back together yet -...