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Where did I say that you had made a judgment? You are obviously easily confused - I said that you aren't qualified to do so, not that you had done so already. You offered me obviously biased information if your vitriol aimed at people who prefer copper fittings is anything to go by...

In that case you aren't experienced enough to make a judgement on my incident, but thanks for trying and don't feel bad about it.

Softus, take your butt-plug out for a minute and sit down and read. I am not trying to level any amount of blame at the manufacturer, I am merely trying to find out what the possible causes of this accident were and how I can avoid them in the future. You are obviously on a power trip and your...

My point is that I don't see anywhere in this particular design that the pipe is less secured if not pushed all the way to the end, all it has to do to be secured is pass the grab ring surely? I am not arguing for the sake of it, I am just trying to find out a possible cause, the marks on the...

OK, my take on these fittings is that they comprise two parts, the securing device which is the plastic and steel olive and the sealing part which is further into the device and is an O-ring. Normally an olive would also form part of the sealing mechanism but in this case it cannot as it is...

Even if the pipe isn't fully inserted (which I think it was anyway,) it still shouldn't blow off should it? I mean it would leak but not blow off the coupling as it would only have to be past the olive section of the fitting for it to become trapped.

Yes we took a few photos, but the insurance company had a flood assesor there within an hour so the photos were more or less redundant. I'll upload the pics shortly.

Here's a picture of the fitting in question, it's not the same one of course as mine was a straight connector but the locking device is the same. Odd that the markings on the pipe were staggered by about 0.5mm a time so it either worked it's way off over a period of time or sort of juddered...

I walked into the bathroom this morning to be greeted by a fountain of water shooting out of a pipe that had come off one of the basin taps. It must have been running for hours, all the newly laid vinyl tiles had come off the floor and the plywood that we had stuck them to was all buckled up...

I have just had my fireplace knocked out so that it will accomodate a nice stove. There is a big slab of sandstone on the bottom and the builder has clad the interior with plaster board and on the top a sheet of that cement fibre stuff. I was wanting to clad it with them thin brick thingies so...

Hi forum, I was wondering if anyone could give me an outline or a link to the regulations for putting in a multifuel stove with regards to the chimney. I have recently removed a small coal fire from my kitchen and opened the chimney breast up so I can put a stove in. I just thought I'd be...

A 35C temp rise doesn't sound much when the input temperature of the water won't be much more than 5 degrees or so.

OK so I think it's obvious that this is a low powered boiler. So is it possible to replace it with something more powerful that will fit straight onto the current fittings?

Thanks for the replies. The installer has gone bankrupt unfortunately.

I had a Worcester Bosch Greenstar 28Kw combi boiler fitted last year at the recommendation of a heating engineer. It seemed fine in the summer but now that the weather is cold it isn't up to the task of suplying hot water. In the summer the hot water it supplied was just about hot to the...