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    Poor pumped shower pressure - advice needed!

    Thanks for the advice - would you mind expanding more on how this "stealing" works? Imagine you are a lump of water. You have just left the cold tank inside a 22mm tube. You come to a fork in the route - straight on to the base of the hot tank, or turn right to a mixer on the suction-side of...
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    Poor pumped shower pressure - advice needed!

    You said "The mixer valve cold supply is 22mm and fed from a tee on the 22mm downpipe from the cold water tanks to the bottom of the hot water cylinder". The shower pump is stealing cold-feed from the hot tank. You need a dedicated cold oulet from the cold tank, direct to shower pump...
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    Circuit Breakers & RCD. What's the difference?

    http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea/searchresults.jsp;jsessionid=NN3MGRGWB4QYWCSTHZOSFFQ?_dyncharset=UTF-8&pn=1&pd=1&pi=1&cn=1&cd=1&q=garage+cu&x=9&y=4 http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Electrical/CircuitProtection/d190/sd2615
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    Adding photos to Word docs

    Seeing as you have been a brown-nosed student, here is another method: - With the picture open, Right-click on the picture and Left-click on copy. With the document open and insertion point positioned, Right-click and choose paste.
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    Adding photos to Word docs

    In your word document, position the cursor insertion-point where you want the picture. Go to Insert/Picture/From File and left-click. Browse to find the file and click on it, then click Insert. You can resize the image in word by click&drag at the corners. You can crop the image in word to...
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    BOSCH BRITISH GAS BOILER

    https://www.britishgas.biz/HomeCare/HomeCareTermsAndConditions.aspx Centrica Our board of directors is headed by our Chairman Roger Carr and Chief Executive Sir Roy Gardner Centrica's corporate headquarters Centrica plc Millstream Maidenhead Road Windsor Berkshire SL4 5GD Main...
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    MAINS WATER PRESSURE

    http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp;jsessionid=4S0VHFN04KG2ICSTHZOSFFQ?id=82412&ts=50182 This gauge fits a wash-machine tap, or maybe a garden tap. Having measured the pressure, you need to measure the flow-rate in litres and time in seconds to calculate L/min or L/hr. (A bucket and...
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    Installing a shower in the Greek Islands

    If you are frightened of electricity, don't do it. If you regard it as a tool to be used, use it safely.
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    tap pressure

    1. Your new hot tap may be designed for high-pressure supply (such as from a Combi boiler). There may be a removable restrictor fitted. Read the box or fitting instructions. 2. You may have fitted 'internally mixing' taps that require equal pressure from both hot & cold supply. 3. There may be...
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    Fan/natural convector heating circuit temperature

    http://www.myson.co.uk/slimline.htm This link gives info on fan convectors. They have high output for small size. Fan noise can be an issue. More parts to go wrong than a panel radiator. Ideal where space is at a premium.
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    Installing a shower in the Greek Islands

    PS - If you have bought your shower, just connect it to a garden hose and see if you are happy with the flow. I would even make a temporary 40A connection in the garden and suck-it-and-see. My other concern was your dependence on power-supply for running water. Is it worth having a store at...
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    Balancing a CH system

    With two identical valves at each end of a radiator, partially-closing either one will cause reduced flow through the radiator. It would not matter if this were on the flow, or the return. Adjusting the flow-rate to achieve a set temperature-drop is one way of setting the radiator heat-output...
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    Installing a shower in the Greek Islands

    You can measure water pressure using this: - http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp;jsessionid=4S0VHFN04KG2ICSTHZOSFFQ?id=82412&ts=50182 Flow-rate can be measured at a tap using a bucket and stop-watch to calculate Litres/minute, but, after adding the resistance to flow (of the electric...
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    Balancing a CH system

    Stolen from another forum. Author unknown. Really it is irrelevant which rad is nearest the boiler. What you need to find is which rad gets hot first when all rad valves and all lockshields are FULLY OPEN. btw, if you have trv's it's best to remove the trv head during balancing otherwise...
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    UPDATE!!! Wireless Heating Control System...

    The receiver relay contacts are rated at 2A, so the power cable could be 0.5mm2 3-core. The earth could be connected to the SCR wallplate. The power could be taken from any L - N feed that is protected by the 3A fused spur that feeds the central heating system.
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    UPDATE!!! Wireless Heating Control System...

    I'm having to guess, but it would appear that from the airing cupboard there was a link to the old room-stat. You would have to verify with a meter. Blue (N) Red (Line out) Yellow (Switched line return) which connected to White (4073 3-way valve) So 230V went out and came back to feed the...
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    shower pump squeals!

    To stop hot water flow from taps, one usually closes a valve on the cold supply to the hot tank. (Assuming vented hot tank replenished from cold cistern at higher level). Stop valve not always fitted. The shower pump has possibly got a slug of air that needs bleeding. You may find vents at...
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    UPDATE!!! Wireless Heating Control System...

    http://content.honeywell.com/uk/homes/catalogu.htm#MOTORISED%20VALVES Go to the Honewell link above. Download (right-click/save as) the following .pdfs 2.21 V4073.pdf 3.4 Y Plan.pdf (You need Adobe Reader) http://rapidshare.de/files/12831165/v4073aop.pdf.html The colours stated do...
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    Inhibitor adding

    http://www.salamander-engineering.co.uk/technicalcentre/faq/faq.htm
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    Honeywell V4073

    http://content.honeywell.com/uk/homes/catalogu.htm#MOTORISED%20VALVES Go to the Honewell link above. Download (right-click/save as) the following .pdfs 2.21 V4073.pdf 3.4 Y Plan.pdf (You need Adobe Reader) Your original valve had a Brown wire to supply 230V AC to the valve motor. The...
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