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    Leaking Bath

    Has the bath been screwed to the floor with all 5 feet, and not just the front ones? have the wall brackets been fitted to the bath and screwed to the wall, should be 2 of these? Have the rubber washers been fitted underneath the taps to stop water leaking through? Has the overflow been...
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    Gas Advice

    usa usa usa usa usa usa , kill all the pigs, go guns , yeehaww what the **** are you talking abot.
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    Sime friendly format 80 E

    Can be a bit quirky these boiler. they seem , from my experiance , to blow pcb fuses whenever anything goes wrong. The tech guys seem decent though , once you get past the old man at the start and all their disclaimers.
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    Sime friendly format 80 E

    Can be a bit quirky these boiler. they seem , from my experiance , to blow pcb fuses whenever anything goes wrong.
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    Cooker hoses

    My colleague came accross a diy fitted cooker last week, looked fine , correct hose, just nothing used on thread to seal it, leaked like hell,but hey , it looked the part.
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    Advice Needed - Plumber Demanding Extra Money

    Can i just say , if he had done his job correctly he would have seen that the boiler would not fit in the kitchen and would need siting somewhere else when he came to do his quotation. He didnt measure up for the job as he should have done, if this had been my mistake i would have taken up the...
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    Pipe fills with water when its shut off

    Just fit an isolation valve on the pipework and all your problems are solved.
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    Advice on electric hot water supply

    Depends what your budget is but a direct unvented cylinder would be my choice as it will provide plenty of hot water, but you will req a qualified person to install it.
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    Installers

    How anal are you baxmax that you take a dust sheet up into the loft, no wonder your scared of lofts, once dust sheet is down you aint gonna see the joists, you are such a numpty jobsworth,bet your never at one place for long. Fact is some jobs are more hazardous than others, what you should be...
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    Installers

    Now im no expert on these things but im pretty confident that BAXMAX is scared of the dark , likkle ickle spiders and not very good at balancing. I`ve done lots of loft installs and only need 2 pieces of skirting board tied together and a candle to fit one with no problems. This pathetic nanny...
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    Plastic Speedfit Pipes

    Just make sure yu use the inserts.
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    Anyone recognize this tap?

    Like the kettle as we have the same one, but jesus its noisy, sink looks very expensive and good quality,but its an ugly tap im afraid, and the fence wants staining this summer or it will start warping over the winter.
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    Copper vs plastic pipes

    May as wellstick my oar in, if its not going to be seen then a prefer plastic as its easier to pass from room to room with minimum disturbance to floors, its also quieter as it doesnt tick tick tick as copper does as it expands and the pipes always touch and are never laid on felt to stop this...
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    bath in floor

    Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:08 pm Post Subject: hf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have enough room in the room below the bathroom to drop the floor so would i be able to put more joists there and what would be best underneath the...
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    Pipes round outside of house ?

    Suspect he means gas pipes, and this is perfectly acceptable to put outside. If your gas pipe freezes dont worry about it,you will have been dead long before you noticed.It freezes at -296.7 degrees f
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    Hot Water Cylinder

    Worst thing you can do is cause a split in the cylinder around the immersion heater, but this is usually only likely to happen on cylinders which rely on immersion heaters and have had them replaced several times as it weakens the copper. To drain down all you need to do is close the gate valve...
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    bath in floor

    You can do what you want in a brochure, in brochures boilers dont have any pipes connected to them, came as a shock to one of my customers. :roll:
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    Ethos

    Thanks for that Agile, just wanna know who if anyone has fitted one, its for myself, but not been installing any decent boilers recently, all cheapos for our firm,so not up on best boilers . I read all i can but recommendations are always good to have.
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    Ethos

    Any of yu lot fitted an Ethos combi, our merchant is pushing them and the figures certainly sound good for hot water etc,not cheap but if i get some good feedback i may try one.
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    Help with choosing shower door

    Merlyn are also good quality, i have one and i have fitted a few others,and easy to adjust or remove doors for cleaning etc. Mine is a quad but i have fitted a 1200 Merlyn slider ,with the curved front, very nice it was.
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