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Thanks for your help, guys. :wink:

This is for use with water suplied from a combi-boiler. Are there any makes to specifically avoid or any that are really worht considering? Have heard that Mira are a good manufacturer. There are a few here. Is it better to go for a built in valve or not and what about a shower bar? What's the...

Er....1? Was it him?

Would mains water come from a tank?

Sorry, I am a bit late getting back. Paul Is the stop tap soldered in place? No, it is held on with nuts.The pipe upstream (towards the source) is it lead? No, it is 22mm copper. Is the supply pipe upstream black alchathene? or blue mdpe? No, it is copper. If there is some copper...

As said earlier nobody seems to be able to locate the external valve. As said, it looks as if some attempt has been made to repair it previously hecn the grease so it is likely to be beyond repair. As it is a ground floor flat it is not a dire emergency but we would like to get it sorted...

IronNaz: It’s Thames Water and certainly beyond the boundaries of the property. compheat: I have seen the stopcock and the top part is covered in some type of grease so I guess somebody has had a go at it previously. I suppose it need replacing entirely. Nige f: The property management...

A friend of mine has a leak coming from the main stopcock of her groundfloor (leasehold) flat in a local authority block. A plumber she called with a view to fixing it told her to contact her property management people to get somebody to turn off the outside valve. They have responded by saying...

Tube heater sound interesting, I shall look into these. Cheers, John. :wink:

Some years back my parents had a pipe burst under the living room floor of their bungalow. This was all dealt with, of course, but was due to a copper pipe not being properly insulated in the concrete. The plumbers who carried out the repair work suggested that it would be preferable to run the...

Sorry, I did not get your response before this afternoon. Anyway we left the tap open just for it to drip very slightly and this seemed to do the trick, as we had no problem with non-running cold water this morning. Also we did not notice any of the same discolouration to the water this...

I am staying at my mum’s for a few days and we noticed a couple of things early this morning. Firstly, the cold supply to the bathroom basin took a while for water to run. By additionally turning on the cold supply to the bath and bidet it eventually restored itself to normal. Presumably the...

Just to make a correction to the info that I provided earlier. The hot water side of the system is vented but the central heating side is not. There is a red expansion vessel near the boiler. Could this rattling that comes on from time to time inside the cylinder be the internal coil not being...

I have been away for a few days but thanks for your help, guys. My mother has been using her laptop seemingly without hitch, so I think she was pretty quick off the mark in dealing with the problem. From what she says there are certainly no signs of anything amiss. Tim – I have tried to find...

How does one go about reporting a seemingly malicious website? Something my mother tried to access a couple of days ago has resulted in a rather alarming My Computer page (this is in XP) being loaded notifying the detection of 200 or so trojans. This comes with the following message: Your...

Do you not have a tenants in common arrangement set up with your wife to mitigate your tax liability? Currently this means that there is a nil rate tax for the first £600,000. Have a look at this. Maybe your wife's colleague's parents did not have anything like this in place?

The boiler 'stat rather than the cylinder 'stat? Well if it's not the F&E tank then I will most likely have to get somebody in. The system was serviced in February but I suppose something like this can go at any time. Thanks, namsag...and yes, I did turn it off. :wink:

I would describe it as a banging noise, actually. As I am away from home until Tuesday I will not be able to check the F&E tank beforel then. But thanks in anycase for the advice. I'll get back to let you know what I find. :wink:

Sorry, I do not currently have a digi-camera. But it is a vented system.

There is a banging noise coming from our cylinder when the system is switched on to HW. Obviously the CH is not switched on this time of year. There is an immersion heater in the top of the cylinder but this is never used. The noise has become progressively louder over the last few days. Any...