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  1. stardanny

    Connecting toilet

    http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-White-Straight-Soil-Pan-Connector/p/431975 Can't you use this, cut the soil pipe flush with wall, insert pan connector inside soil pipe. Look good, all white and tidy. Daniel.
  2. stardanny

    Best valiant boiler for 300 Litre tank (6 bed 3 bathroom including loft)

    3 bathrooms? What the working pressure and what the flow litre per minute? Water system is depend on this. Daniel.
  3. stardanny

    2 Quotes for new heating - what option should I choose - advice appreciated

    You really need to check the working pressure and the flow litre per minute of incoming water main before making decisions on which system is best. IMO, you be better off with water tank, cylinder and sealed heating system. Daniel.
  4. stardanny

    Mira Event Theromostatic 1996 - cutting out

    How is it cutting out? MCB or RCD on Consumer unit? Or shower unit cutting out? Sound like the motor worn out and tripping the thermal trip. The motor is fitted with self-resetting thermal trip protection, designed to operate if the duty cycle is exceeded or ambient temperatures become too...
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    90 degree toilet into cast iron soil pipe - help wanted

    Careful chip around the pan spigot inside the cast iron socket, remove the pan, clean the cast iron socket and the inside of the cast iron pipe. Use a bend pan connector such as this, and insert into the cast iron pipe, well past it socket. Lined up and secure the pan, you will need a new flush...
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    How can we avoid raising wet room base when there is limited space for the fall on the waste pipe?

    Where do the waste go to? Soil stack or outside gully? With a wooden joists floor, can't you lower the waste pipe down? Daniel.
  7. stardanny

    Hot water system problems..

    You need to refill it back as the hot water that goes to cylinder from boiler is part of heating system. Boiler overheat cos of lack of water and cut out. Daniel.
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    Leaking shower need help find where from

    I have one same as this, the shower valve body is cast and machined, all one piece, nothing can be leaking from it. Two things come to mind: Faulty shower hose. Remove the hose and do what Muggles say, hold the outlet with thumb, turn water on and if there is no water coming out, hose is...
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    Radiators heat up when Hot Water comes on

    Try free it up. Does the pipe leading from that zone valve to radiators heat up when hot water is on and demand? If yes, it may be letting by. Try free it up, failing that, replace it. Daniel.
  10. stardanny

    Leaking shower need help find where from

    Does it leak when using the shower?
  11. stardanny

    Rad tails

    How short is it? It going to look naff. Daniel.
  12. stardanny

    Radiators heat up when Hot Water comes on

    What make of zone valve? Probably be sticky. Daniel
  13. stardanny

    screws for radiators

    Drill holes where fixing is and make sure the 7mm rawplug is in the block and use 80mm no5 to secure it. Daniel.
  14. stardanny

    Immersion tank half filling

    Poor connection. Replace the thermostat with new thermostat with a build-in safety cut out, cut back flex and remake connection or renew flex with heat resistant 2.5mm2. Daniel.
  15. stardanny

    Install a shower pump above HW Cylinder But below CW Storage

    Raise the cold water storage tank higher and fit the pump above the cylinder, make sure all piped correctly and it will work. Daniel
  16. stardanny

    Spinning tap

    You could buy this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-threaded-tap-glands-24mm-x-2-pack/7960f Unscrew tap shroud, turn off water and undo the tap valve. And replace it but the handle may or may not fit onto new spindle, worth a try. Daniel.
  17. stardanny

    Pipe from ECV to gas meter

    They are right, and I think what they meant is they have to dig down and extend main gas pipe to new location ( where the meter box is ) and fit an ECV in there. There is no other way, I'm afraid. Daniel.
  18. stardanny

    Hot Water Issue With Valliant EcoTech 837

    Buy this, screw onto washing machine hot water valve, no need for plumber. http://www.screwfix.com/p/bsp-blank-nut-x/39553 Daniel.
  19. stardanny

    Mexico Super 2 - Kettling when heating hot water only?

    Probably the boiler is coming to the end of it useful life. The boiler will reach it core temperature then it will kettle as you have a gravity primary flow and return which is slow. Of course it will stop kettling when radiators is switch on and pump is running but have you run it to core...
  20. stardanny

    Water seeping through bath shower mixer tap to under the bath

    Simply, If I find something like this, I use a thin o-ring to seal it. Daniel.
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