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Its a Drayton Zone valve actuator ZA5 there is a little white box on a pipe with half a red cog wheel sticking out the side but this has no make or model and has a power cable coming out of it is this the diverter valve?

i thought it was a combi but someone i know said its a system boiler i checked the boiler its an ideal HE 12. The cylinder is a tribune he. Its a pressurised system and in the zone valve it says zone valve actuator if i move the switch on it forward manually i can hear the boiler kicking in...

How can i check if my diverter valve is broke as i cant get any hot water only central heating works. the boiler comes on when heating is called for but when hot water is called for it remains cold. I have an ideal system boiler so i have a hot water cylinder as well but this is cold as taps at...

i turned the immersion heater on for just over half hour and turned the hot water taps on but still no hot water. i looked at the zone valve and when the central heating stat is turned so heating kicks in this little black switch on the top moves forward and when i turn the heating off it...

Hi could anyone help me? I got back from work today and when i went to fill up the bowl to wash up there was no hot water. I turned the thermostat up in the front room to see if the boiler was still working and it fires up fine, so the central heating side is working fine. But no hot water...

it is definitely copper. The hot and cold taps in bathrooms upstairs and downstairs are bout 8/10mm. The cistern feed upstairs and downstairs are also 8/10mm. The bath is 15/22mm and the kitchen sink is 15mm. All the radiators are the same size pipe as well. there is no tank in the loft as...

I live in a new Barratts home and the system is all micro bore, i know this as the pipes to the cistern and hot and cold taps in the downstairs toilet are all smaller than your usual 15mm. What i want to know is can you tap into the cold cistern feed to take a branch off to run to an outside...

i know sorry, basically if the fire has not been lit then you have to turn the immersion heater on, and yes sorry it is a cylinder. so the heat from the fire travels up a pipe to the cyclinder and heats it up, it then probably returns back down stairs to the hot water draw off points. is...

Can anyone help me please. My girlfriends mum lives in a house where all of the water outlets eg bath taps, sink taps, kitchen taps and the cistern are all downstairs. There is a fire in the kitchen which heats an immersion tank directly above in a bedroom. She wants to know can you...

go on then how to they appear to you? I know that if the fire has not been lit in the day then there is no hot water as simple as that so obviously the fire is responsible for the heating of the water it is just the same as what a heat exchanger would do.

The house has no central heating and from what i know the little coal fire in the kitchen sends hot air upstairs and heats the tank. This then comes back downstairs as the bathroom is downstairs. That tank is in an airing cupboard i don't know if there is a CWSC in the loft or whether its all...

Can anyone advise why there is no cold water coming out of my mums bathroom sink? I turn the tap fully left or right and only drips seem to come out. Its about time the whole sink was replaced but until then is there a solution? Also where is the best place to get a new pedestal basin...

This is the thing i'm not on a job im only able to practice my pipe bending in the workshops i attend about every 2 months so the time in between i would like to keep my mind refreshed. Does anyone know an easy way to do passovers and offsets etc or does it all come with experience and...

Cheers leakydave, that was extremely helpful i did not realise some people are on 200 a day anyway. im a postman at the mo on bout 65 a day walking around in all weathers and want to finally do something with my life and be my own boss. i will take on board what you said and look into...

Hi everyone i'm Darren. Just joined up to this forum but hope to get to know you all in the near future. I am currently studying to be a plumber with OLCI and i'm almost halt way through. What i was wondering is does anyone know the best way to get all the tools i'll need to be a plumber. I...