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Plumber said that, he was that amazed he asked to keep it!

Looks like a complete re pipe of downstairs heating is on the cards, had the plumber round earlier and he says I'm not the only one on this estate that's had this problem by a long way.... He capped off the expansion tank in the loft and pressure tested it and it wouldn't hold anything, and he...

There's a huge amount of things that "Work with Nest" as well...and Nest does OpenTherm too. I haven't had mine in long but I'm happy with it, although I've never used any other system so I've got nothing to compare it to! The main thing for me was that the 3rd gen Nest controls the hot water...

Yep, its an old Wylex single RCD board with the early NSB breakers with coloured switches. Just thought of one potential problem, I suppose the cable between the shower switch and FCU would have to be 6mm, and I'm not sure if I've got any...hopefully the old feed to the old shower is still...

At some point (by previous owners) the shower in my ensuite has been changed from an electric heated shower (where it heats its own water) to a pumped power shower (with hot and cold feeds). I suspect it was wired up by the plumber as they've done away with the existing 6mm feed from the CU on...

Well things have got worse, I was undoing another radiator and as I cracked the nut there was a rush of water, which promptly filled up the hole in the floor. I tightened it back up and quickly put an isolation valve on the end of it and shut it off, then cracked the nut again....and water is...

When I **** up, I like to do it properly... Managed to crack the pipe for a good few inches! I assume that's from me wiggling the pipe about trying to make things fit. And this is currently the state of the utility room floor I'm far too scared to even attempt soldering onto that, so I'll...

I've just tried that off the rad and it looks like it will work, only a couple of mm wider now. For some reason I thought the olive was fixed like on the old tail, but as you rightly said it can be knocked back - can't believe I didn't try it! Even more so because I've just gone to fill the...

I've just drained down and flushed my system with the intention of fitting TRVs to 8 out of the 13 rads in the house ready for winter. The existing valves are 'Wasp Ten' wheelheads at both sides of each rad. I managed to get the old valves and tails off without any problem, fitted the new...

Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep an eye on it

Thanks...I'll have a look. My toilet fill valves were pretty limescaley so that's probably the same after 20 years of it, I'll probably change it after all. It was 6am this morning, I was ****ed off I couldn't have a shower, and started trying simple things to try and make it work, mainly...

All sorted I think! Glad I posted here before cracking the spanners out just for air in the pipes! As an aside I take it the fill valve on the cold water tank shouldn't be constantly dripping/trickling? The level is a long way off the overflow, looks like it might have been artificially set low...

That would make good sense actually, I was thinking how would it have an affect on the pumped shower as it's fed off the tank but didn't contemplate it could have totally emptied it. Will go and let it run for 5 mins and see what happens. It's all still a bit new to me, all my previous...

I 'upgraded' all 3 toilets in my house with Fluidmaster push button flush and fill valves as they'd all been heavily bodged - 2 1/4" hole in the bottom of the cistern with a 2" valve used plus loads of silicon, water hammer from the fill valve on another, another one constantly trickling out of...

Hi, We've got 2 showers, a pumped electric shower (has hot and cold feed) in the en suite, and a mixer tap in the bathroom with shower attachment. Hot water is supplied from a cylinder via open vented Y plan system, there's a cold water storage tank supplying the hot water cylinder and pumped...

That sounds sensible, will go for that at the weekend - cheers! Was worried about stuffing up the new TRVs with all the old **** that would get dislodged but that should sort it.

I'm planning on doing some stuff to the house I've not long since moved in to, none of the radiators have TRVs so I've got a load of them and new lockshields, and also bought a Magnaclean chemical pack which came with cleaner and inhibitor. While I'm messing about fitting TRVs I intend to take...

I did mean the consumer gas pipe off the meter to boiler etc, not the gas service pipe off the main, as I understand it that always has to come in on the left, that bit isn't critical as Im just laying a gas duct under the drive way ready. I wasn't planning on putting a meter box in yet, just...

Being as us normal folk aren't allowed in the gas section I've posted here... I'm putting a semi buried gas meter box on the side of my porch in preparation for a meter move (long way off in the future) Going to shutter off a section in the screed floor in the porch for the gas pipe to run in...

I'm hoping to avoid getting on the roof if at all possible!