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I am thinking of adding a wash basin in our dormer bedroom, the hot water cylinder is behind the wall in the loft area, as the dormer floor is about 10" higher than the loft floor it means that when I fit the basin it will likely be about level with the top of the cylinder. Will I get hot...

Check that the wingnuts holding the cistern underneath are similarly tightened & that one side doesn't have more thread showing than the other. If so then you will likely get a leak as one side is pulled down more than the other which makes the other side lift a little

Maybe your cistern has a duff syphon which doesn't lift enough water ? The best flush I have ever seen is since we fitted a flapper type instead of the old syphon, these also have a built in overflow that goes into the pan so doesn't need pipework.

Replace that radiator tap with one with a combined drain tap to make it easier for future drain downs

I made the mistake of adding a new rad on a stretch of pipe below the pump so it made the rad pull in water from the return & push it back into the flow. Before the pump water is being pulled but after the pump it is being pushed so it needs to push the hot flow into the rad. a lesson I...

I had a good look & your right, there is a 22mm pipe which runs all the way to the boiler & a short 15mm feed off it to the ballcock, the pipe is now at the back of the tank & hard to see

We are pleased with our warmfront provided Ideal icos boiler & new hot water cylinder. Up in the loft where the cylinder is I notice that altho there is an expansion pipe off the cylinder into the header tank there isn't one for the central heating as there was before. The original heating...

Maybe the membrane in the syphon has split so it loses it's lifting power ?

I've just fitted a flapper type after endless problems with trying to replace the syphon after it failed to work properly, I'm well impressed with such a light touch on the handle to give a half flush or hold the handle for full flush. If you do have the flapper type & it's not really clear...

calm down boys,lol ! luckily I am well aware of not tampering within the anything whilst it's fully covered by both installers & Ideal, warmfront also extend the warranty to 2 years with 2 included services. I will call them on Wednesday as we are out all day tomorrow & rest of today...

Thanks for info folks, apart from the first few minutes with noise the boiler is incredibly fast at heating the cylinder in the loft, it's set for just 20 minutes a day to keep it piping hot so I am impressed with that as our old boiler used to take over an hour & then lose the heat even tho...

We finally got our new boiler from Warm front, it's an Ideal icos HE24 & I know Ideal boilers are considered poor but we had what we were given so can't complain. however the first five minutes after start up the boiler makes a lot of loud noises - some of which can be heard all over the...

I don't think I have a primatic cylinder, we do have two tanks, the pipework looks very old 1960's possibly so I am wary of loosening the nuts as they look gunged up somewhat, I just took off the lagging to see if there is any way to bleed the coil but no luck there. My boiler is a Myson...

My boiler has the same four pipes, the hot water pair are a bigger bore than the heating pair tho

It seems I have more or less the same problem as you Bash, altho I don't think my cylinder is primatic see my thread http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=120935

I have upped the temp to full with little effect, the fact that water is not really hot when the heating is on also points to sme other fault. Quote: It sounds like a blocked cold feed and not enough water in the system. Check the float valve in the header tank and drain some water from the...

Our hot water is not getting hot enough anymore, we have old gas fired indirect gravity hot water & pumped heating, I think that maybe the heating circuit is robbing the water tank of hot water, The 2 flow pipes from the boiler both go to a connection on the tank & share the expansion pipe...

hi there, thanks for replying, The system is fairly old, previous owners were well into DIY botching, I have just been trying to work out what pipes go where & the heating pipes don't go thru the tank as I first thought, Looking at diagrams on the internet I see that the hot water is gravity...

We have a problem with our system in that when we have a nice hot tank of water it is cooled right down if we then run the central heating, The boiler has flow & return for the heating & also another pair of pipes which heat the water tank. I can't see why the c/heating pipe needs to go thru...