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Am I just getting bad plumbers (daft woman emoticon) or am I just stupid? After days, nay, years of your experience and time on here sorting out what to do with my vented, one-pipe system, I thought I found a good un. New boiler in, house toasty, everything fine. But the new shower he...

I posted this separately in another message so apologies for cross-posting (just realised my title wasn't pulling in any answers :oops: ) I've just had a new mixer shower fitted. In theory (according to my installer) it is for low pressure systems (we have a vented system with conventional...

...what's wrong with my shower?! I finally found a bloke with a bag of spanners :lol: who put in a Worcester conventional boiler (Greenstar 30 summat) and a new cylinder. ALL my rads are lovely and hot and the new thermostat actually works! OK it still takes 30 mins to actually heat...

Hi again, OK the latest guy has given an acceptable quote but is suggesting he fits a Valiant (Vaillant?) Ecotec Pro Combi 28he to our existing pipes... I'd really like to know if you think this would work or is a mad idea given the pipes, radiators etc that I outlined to you previously...

I have posted before and had some helpful replies but managed to lose them and our situation has gone from checking out some general advice to sit on for a while to 'ohmigod we've got no heating and the boiler has exploded...' It is 30 years old and now condemned so we've got to replace that...

Hi, got a lovely new house with lovely cast-iron 1950s radiators and massiive wide bore pipes, which act like radiators too... they're about 2-3 inches (and I mean two to three whole inches not two thirds...) Cannot afford, nor want the disruption of replacing all these pipes but the guy who...