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    McAlpine VP3 Air Admittance Valve

    My shower waste (all pipework is in the garage below at ceiling height) is on a pretty long run, nearer the stack the bath Tees into it waste, when the bath drains I get the suction going to the shower trap. Can I fit one of these in-between the shower & bath wastes or do these need to be above...
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    Baths with no feet

    Just got a bath delivered and it's came with no feet. Looked on the site and there's no mention that it didn't come with feet. Looked on a different site and it says floor standing/floor mounted. It's a J shaped bath with a bath panel. (Cleargreen Viride offset bath) Is this becoming normal...
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    Non-return valves for outside taps

    I have 2 outside taps, but they don't have any check valves on them, where's the best location to fit the check valve? Just after the tee from the main pipework or nearer the tap
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    Hot water pressure

    Just tee'd into the bath hot & cold for my mixer shower but now the hot water pressure is bad. Worcester cd37 combi boiler in the garage which is under my kitchen and the pipes I was working on are above boiler height. I turned the water off, opened the taps, cut the pipes, tee'd off with...
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    Bar mixer shower connections

    Just ripped out my old shower/tiles/plasterboard etc. Piped in the hot & cold at 150mm centres. Looking at some showers (Mira & Grohe etc), they seem to have a 1/2" BSP connection inside the wall? I was just going to stick the 15mm copper tails out through the wetwall then thought they've be...
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    Minimum width for a hopper window

    Away to be building a porch, going to have a UPVC door & side panel screen but want a hopper window in the side panel. Whats the minimum width required for having an opening hopper in it? Rough plan is to have about a 1400 opening (roughly 1m for door + frame and 400 for the side panel) these...
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    TRV4 Auto Balancing valves

    Got Normal TRV4 radiator valves but wondering if the auto balancing are worth a change to? I've not got system balanced Or better just keeping the normal TRV4 and balance the system? Also, do they fit onto the body of the TRV4 body or is it a complete valve change?
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    Danfoss RET2001M no display when not in use

    I have the above room stat but it doesn't show anything on the digital screen until the programmer tells the boiler to turn on. Is this meant to have a live feed for display power all the time? It's a Drayton L711 1 channel programmer is it makes any difference
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    Magnetic Filters

    Thinking about installing a magnetic filter to my heating system in the summer and wondering what's the most recommended for fitting on here? CD37i combi boiler. Seen the Fernox omega, Trappex centramag genesis & spirotrap mb3
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    How close to the boiler can you lag pipes?

    Just wondering if there's a set distance away from the boiler to stop the foam pipe lagging?
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    Rainfall Shower Position

    Starting to look at rainfall showers for when i do up the bathroom. Looking at the Mira miniluxe diverter erd. But wondering what wall would be better for fitting it to? Fitting it on the short wall at 700 or 800 wide or the ling wall at 1100 or 1200 wide? (still not 100% decided on the tray...
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    Worcester Greenstar 37CDi combi boiler sometimes gives cooler hot water

    When using the hot water there's times when you turn the hot tap on and the hot water is noticeably cooler than normal. Then you can use the hot water tap again 5 minutes later and it's back to normal. Boiler is a Greenstar 37CDi
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    Wallpaper drying time behind radiators

    Just papered my hall, drained the radiator and rehung after papering, just wondering if there's a rough drying time before I get use of the radiator. didn't want to crank the heating on and the paper shrinks
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    Screwed on TRV Heads

    Are the screwed on TRV heads all compatible with each other for when you want to change heads
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    Paslode IM350 Loading nails issue

    My brother has just bought an old IM350 from ebay, there's a problem with loading the nails, you have to fiddle about with the butting to allow the nails into the magazine, just just annoying. Anyone else had this problem?
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    Washing machine waste size?

    Just moved house and we're not using the dishwasher as much, was thinking about cutting down the waste of the dishwasher and fitting the mcalpine connector & jubilee clip just so it doesn't get a chance to dry out (kitchen does get hot due the the size of the windows, was 32c last week) is the...
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    Double opening patio door handle security bars

    just got new patio doors fitted, just wondering if there's any security bars available that you can lock onto the handles that you can leave your door open say 4" The handles are like these
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    Triton T80SI going hot then cold

    Hi, Got a triton T80si shower last january from tritons ebay clearance store. On setting 2 the temp is going hot them cold, but if you have it on setting 1 the shower is fine & temp stays the same. Any idea on how it would do this on setting 2?
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    Wooden garage door latches

    Any idea where i could get latches to replace these? The ones i've seen that may be ok have the leading slope on the bolt the wrong way from what i have
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    Vertical Radiator Fixings

    Just got 2 vertical radiators, just seen the fixing brackets and both holes are quite close together, it's to go onto a plastered dry wall, any other fixings suitable for this? each box says they're 60kg I will try to find a stud first so i at least get 1 top bracket securely fixed, but...
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