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looking at that radiator valve its looks knackered to me. :( the thing that packs up on rad valve is the packing glands, after years of being installed and u go to do a bit of maintainance like taking the rad off the wall for painting etc, then as u turn the valves on and off the packing gland...

well the company i work for does nhs work and yes any hot water outlets at sinks and wash hand basins must be no higher and regulated to 43 degrees, anything above this and u will scald ur hands, however ur hands can withstand more heat than the rest of ur body ans showers max temperatures r 38...

right. have u got a combi boiler that produces instant hot water or do u have a hot water copper cylinder in a hotpress. i take it if u have done a upstairs loft conversion then u have no cold water storage tanks and may have an unvented mains pressure cylinder :?: let us know this b4 we...

:cry: unfortunetly u can't do ia lot about that. u could go to the supplier and get a goose neck muiltiwick wc pan connector, but that would only throw u back an inch or so. the only way out would be to build a frame and put out a small stud wall to fill the gap and make a small self to finsh it...

i work on a site one time and the buyer made us fit a shower tray instead of a bath. a year later one of the couple lost their job and as a result they had to sell up. the estate agent told them the property had acutually devalued cos they hadn't an actutal 'bath' room. and classed it as a...

top tip. when ur at the supplier getting the new immersion get urself a tub of boss white. its a thick creamy paste/ compound. apply this around the new fibre gasket that seals between the immerion and the cylinder . some say boss white breaks down the fibres in the fibre gaskets and causes...

yeah, pretty much. but is the unvented cylinder made of copper or stainless steel :?: be aware that if u take a stilson or more appropiately an immersion heater spanner to it then it could be extemely difficuit to remove the old one. u can try and take a blow lamp to create expansion between the...

changing a a circulating pump or a toielt and everything works back in fine. :( but unfortunally with plumbing and heating this theroy doesn't quite come into play all the time. i'm not trying to tell someone that they couldn't change a domestic hot water cylinder and paint the picture black...

doing that will not be against building regs but teeing individual sanityware appliances together ie wash hand basins, baths and showers can cause syhonage of the traps. here comes the science!!! all small wastes under 2 inch (or 50mm) should go straight into the main stack as they will all...

right! this may seem a simple question and i'm not going to make it a big deal,but heres some good advice. :) the only way to increase poor water pressure is to introduce a booster pump. however :? if you have a combi boiler then you have mains water already going to it, which should in turn...

i forgot to mention bathroom temperature is 24 to 25 degrees c

any room you donot stay in ie halls, downstairs wc/ toliet, kitchens are should be fitted with radiators that will heat the room to 18 degrees c. livingrooms 22 to 23 degrees c cos you need to be comfortable and you wont be active normally sitting watching the box . the bathroom is the warmest...

i agree with the last gentleman, but there is something i see as a growing trend is people that use plastic pipe ( forgive all good plumbers that use plastic and i do use it now and again!!!!!) :lol: they haven't much plumbing experience or they real diy men and don't know what their at. they...

sometimes water pressure isn't always to blame and more to do with flow rates. this will have a lot to do with the size of the pipework installed. in a standard house the local water board will hook you up to a 15mm water supply, be it an old lead pipe, mdpe or copper, they are pretty much the...

hard to say. i bought a large pair of rothenberg plastic cutters at 25 quid. they even cut up to 42mm waste pipe. . it depends what sizes u need them for and how much use they'll get.

for a start most vented cylinders operate at 3.5 bar. secondly whats the chances of all three showers working all at once???? unvented cylinders must be feed by the incoming water mains, which is normally well over 3 bar, but the supply to the cylinder must be 22mm copper, other wise you may...

as the last gentleman has already stated you are not qualifed the atucally contect the new water main to the meter as the meter belongs to the local water council. i live in northern ireland so i'm not sure what way your water board/ council operate but over here if you have a lead water main...

pumps manufacture are now stating that the hot water supply to the pump must be blended with cold water by a mixing valve to 65 degress c before entering the pump. not doing this voids your warnanty on the product. probably cos pumps are now made of plastic. salmander also insist on the hot...

i only see frost protection installed in industrial or comercial heating systems. i suppose you could get something set up, but it would be costly and unless there are pipes exposed to the outside elements and you live in high risk area to frost it would be un necessary. as the guys here have...

some plumber don't fit a by pass valve in a house. if you have trv's installed then they normally leave the bathroom rad with standard valves. as all the rooms reach temperature they close down, (if set correctly) then leaving the bathroom rad still heating. this enables your pump to circulate...