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I am taking a shower tray out and replacing it with a bath.Its a bungalow with an open vented system with a small hot water cylinder enclosed behind a stud wall .The vent pipe coming off the top of the cylinder is only 15mm and the hot distribution pipe is only 15mm.The cold pipe to the ped...

I have installed 1 rad before,and now my neighbours got wind of it,hes looking 3 installed. The rads are going to be in 3 seperate locations; kitchen, bedroom,and hall. Do i have to rip up floors,or is there an easier way i can pipe these?

Well arent you the dogs balls bob,why do people with a skill,and a bit of knowledge think they are god. It doesnt make you any better than anybody else,i will tell you that so grow up,and help the person who asks you for your so called expertise rather than messing them about. Why didnt you tell...

would it b o.k to tee into an existing rad to pipe to an additional radiator. The size of the pipework is 10 mm and the extra rad is approx 3.5 metres away in the same room downstairs. The boiler is oil fired,and open vented, with f@e tank. i dont know how many rads the property has but its a 2...

an old bath is leaking between the top of the bath and where its pushed into the tiles. Theres a massive gap in places,and i was wondering could anyone recommend anything to seal it as i think its too large for silicone.

Thankyou,now i understand

I noticed a gate valve on the return pipe at the hot water cylinder and i was told it was to slow the water down going through the boiler. could anybody tell me is it dangerous to have to large or to small a flow through the boiler and how many turns should you have the gate valve open. your...

This guy has 2 cold rads upstairs,one in the bathroom,and one in a small toilet room beside it. Its an old farmhouse and the previous owner plumbed the whole house himself. The pipework seems to be microbore on most of the rads,with a few rads 15mm. The lockshield valves seem really old,with...

I went to B&Q to buy there so called fibre washers for a 22mm flexi tap connector cos id lost original. The washer just tore up in my hand like paper so id hate to think what water would do over time. you cant take a chance with water;especially with bath taps cos the panel goes on,and thats...

Thank you very much,great advice,theres light at the end of the tunnel at last.

I have a beko wma 1614w washing machine that makes clicking noises at various stages of the wash cycle. Could it be the pressure switch when filling or draining the water, operated by air pressure or the pressure vessel or maybe none of these. Mostly its quiet but then all of a sudden you hear a...

I need to fit a new oil sump on my peugeot partner 1.9 diesel van. The sump on the van is a mass of flaking rust with oil weeping from a hole on the side. When i went to pick up the new one the parts guy told me i need to apply a good quality gasket sealant,and he gave me black rtv silicone...

I went to put t.r.vs on a neighbours rads and in the loft i noticed the f and e tank sitting on a sheet of what looks like aluminium over the top of the c.w.s.t. Both tanks lids were missing and insulation was breaking off into the large tank. the cold feed pipes connection to the f and e tank...

My neighbour owns a jewellry shop, and he owns a flat above it as well, with the bathroom directly over his workshop.His toilet has no overflow.It is a close coupled syphonic lever type.The distance from the toilet to the outside wall is ~4ft and the wall is mostly stone and plastered over.Is...

Thks all for your help. Not everything is covered in the text books,and you cant beat experience,cheers.

when i flush my toilet and it starts to refill a deep quite loud humming noise occurs. The toilet is a close coupled lever handled type with syphonic action and mains fed into cistern from bottom entry. the noise occurs at start of refill and ends before cistern has finished filling. however it...

There is a blue lever valve on the cold feed into the boiler yes,but i was afraid to turn it off as i thought the boiler needed water flowing through it, and therefore you needed to isolate hot water on outlet end after its passed through boiler. thank u for putting me straight however out of...

i went to fix a relatives dripping mixer tap in the kitchen thinking this will be easy, especially when she told me all i had to do was fit a new valve inside it that she had already bought. As it was the hot side that was dripping, all i had to do was turn the hot water off. However there were...

A friend has a problem with a severe banging noise coming from his heating. he has a back boiler and an oil fired boiler. every time he lights his open fire an awful noise erupts. He says the noise only started after the oil was installed and that he told the plumbers to leave it that he could...