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You need to check the pump is running. Is all the radiators hot? Pipework possible clogging up. Possible boiler nearer end of life, quite old. You need to get an engineer to have a look and advise you. Daniel.

The wall look like plasterboard / stud wall? If the shower valve is unrepairable, maybe you could change it from behind eg in other room behind the shower? Daniel.

Bloody foreign!! Take it out and use a standard screw fixing plughole bath waste fitting. Daniel.

Better to put isolation valves on pipe just before it connected to taps on every basin, bath and toilet, that way you can repair tap without turning off other. You will have to make bath panel easy removable. Daniel.

That taps is normally used for cabinets, units and false wall panel, on framing/paneling system. For plasterboard and tiling, you would have to have a access panel behind, eg bedroom wall. You could use this access panel, look smart, clean and near smooth...

I still have 11kg propane bottle I rarely use since I got a propane sure fire blowtorch, still in the garage for 18 years and still fine as I used it last weekend for a large pipework repair. So your will be fine. Daniel.

Is there any heating pipes under ground floor? Can you see any damp, water stain anywhere? Can you see the relief pipe dripping outside? Daniel.

Have you got a loft space? Daniel.

No. You must switch off at the consumer unit ( fuse box ) while doing any work to electric system. Daniel.

With 4 bedrooms and 4 bathroom, you'll be better off with loft cold storage tank and vented cylinder. 4 bathroom Ffs! Daniel.

And the question is....?

Can you find out where the other bathroom rad valve goes to? Look closer, feel... Daniel.

First run the boiler and pump on HW only, that will clear airlock on boiler flow and return. Do you have a air vent around above 3 port valve? Daniel.

Does the rad get hot on HW only? What system /boiler have you got? Daniel.

Elson used to make rectangular combi hot and cold water tanks before, now discontinued. Daniel.

I am confused. You say BG used 1.0mm2 three and earth cable? That is fine as 3 cord and Earth is suitable for room stat, one for permanent live, one for neutral, one for switch live and Earth wire. Daniel.

No. I don't use tape at all. You can if you want Daniel

You need to get fibre tap connector washer. http://www.screwfix.com/p/arctic-products-prestex-tap-connector-washers-red-pack-of-5/1109j Daniel.

You need to fit the black plastic insert on timber first then the metal frame go in, fit first to bath base then screw in black insert to metal frame. Daniel.

How is the shower hot water pipe connected to cylinder? Daniel.