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My house currently has a small kitchen with an adjacent outside toilet and then next to the toilet there is a small lean-to. I intend to extend the kitchen incorporating the toilet in the process. In addition, I would like to remove the lean-to and build a small utility room which would also be...

My house currently has a small kitchen with an adjacent outside toilet and then next to the toilet there is a small lean-to. I intend to extend the kitchen incorporating the toilet in the process. In addition, I would like to remove the lean-to and build a small utility room which would also be...

I have just purchased a number of second hand cast iron radiators that were removed from a house and kept in a shed for around six months - I think they were being used for around six years prior to this. I ran a hosepipe through the radiators and one has a couple of leaks which I would like to...

I thought that Andy - would possibly be able to tell if it was pine but not anything else. Can't do the sniff test at the moment as I am abroad! Does the presence of knots point it in the direction of pine?

I have just bought a house constructed in 1905 which has a parquet wooden floor. Not sure if the floor is original but think it may be as a neighbouring property which is identical in design has the same type of floor. I have put in a new fire place with a smaller hearth so I need to obtain some...

I am looking to undertake a loft conversion and wish to minimise the space taken up by new stairs leading to the loft. My intention is to construct new stairs within a corridor that I will create from part of an existing bedroom which will become the bathroom. The existing stairs lead directly...

I am planning to cap over my existing wooden soffit which apart from requiring re-painting is structurally sound (rot free). The existing soffit (1920's house) isn't vented so I am not planning to fit any vents into the new material. I have seen some installation videos where timber battens are...

To set the scene, before we found it, our house had been on the market for a couple of years and the people selling it (children of a widow in a home) had decided that it probably wasn't going to sell so they would do up the kitchen and rent it out. So, whilst the kitchen was being...

I have 22 rads so needed a hefty boiler - works great though - no complaints.

I think the documents are poorly worded and seem to contradict somewhat. What I think they are getting at is that yes you can run without pump overrun but there may be issues

Time for an update. I contacted Vailant and they advised that the boiler does have a pump connection and should have pump overrun (documents attached). What I don't understand is why there is no mention whatsoever of the pump connection in the manual (on-line or received with the new boiler)...

Time for an update. I decided to live with an open vent system but fitted thumb vents to both feed and return immediately above the boiler and these seemed to make a world of difference when I re-filled the system - took much less time to vent the air and I was surprised that even after a week...

Thanks Oilhead Gaswizard, I will be undertaking the pipework (water) myself but have someone else (qualified/registered) who will take care of the boiler. I do I like to think have some idea about what I am doing and one of the reasons for this post was because I have doubts about what I was...

boiler will be a vaillant ecotec 430 (going to change the Ravenheat out) - have an airing cupboard with a manual bleed on the HW coil of the cylinder. There is also an automatic vent on one of my pumps (this serves the extension rads that I put in). The only other means of losing air is through...

sorry - should have said that is an open vent

Quick and simple questions, my boiler currently doesn't have any bleed valves and the system can be a pain to bleed. I therefore intend to fit at least one valve (was thinking of an automatic bottle vent) to either the feed, return or both immediately above the boiler. Is it usually necessary to...

My existing setup consists of three interconnected relays which allow either my original or extension "systems" to provide pump overrun utilising the output from the boiler and the original pump i.e. if either system causes the boiler to fire, the original pump will run on (or start up and run...

Ok thanks Hason. I don't have access to the manual at the moment but there doesn't seem to be anywhere on the boiler for a direct pump connection. There is reference in the setup for configuration of the accessory relays for pump control but I couldn't see any wiring diagrams for accessory...

All, Thanks all for your replies - much appreciated - I thought I was correct on the pump overrun - would be helpful if there was a definitive statement on this in the installation manual D_Hailsham - apologies, I started a thread a couple of years back(Pipe runs for 2 storey extension) and you...

I am looking to replace my existing boiler (Ravenheat) with a Vaillant Ecotec Plus 430 Open Vent unit and from looking at the manual that I downloaded from Vaillant's web site, I don't believe I need to wire the pump to the boiler for pump overrun. I query this as I think that other models in...