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I’m after some advice or experiences with setting up a new heating/DHW tank and also to supplement with solar evacuated tubes. We have no gas in the village. The current system runs from an oil Rayburn Nouvelle. This is partnered with a Gledhill Boilermate2 200L thermal store system. The...

I'm looking at installing a home CCTV solution, 3-4 cameras. I've been trawling the web and the bewildering choice of solutions. I'm sure you basically get what you pay for. I'm prepared to spend upto about £2k. I seem to have settled for an Apollo 4 channel DVR (not sure yet if to go for HD...

We live in an old house that has boxing around the upper floor skirting to contain the central heating and wiring circuits, because the floor/ceiling has no void. I was checking a pipe leak recently and noticed that a lot of the wiring touches in places and in some cases is partially wrapped...

Since moving to this house, we've always noticed how blisteringly powerful the pressure is. I can get the hose to spray 50ft easy. We've also had numerous leaks on cistern joints, compression joints, taps etc. I put one of those cheapish pressure testers onto the washing machine supply cold...

I've replaced quite a bit of my CH piping this week. I want to dry pressure test the system first for confidence before I refill to test. It's a vented, unpressured standard 22/15mm system. I have a monument dry pressure tester that reads upto 4 bar/60 psi. What pressure should I test up to?

I need to make some repairs to my heating where soldering just isn't practical. I bought some 22x22x15 tee's from B&Q, but then noticed the 15mm branch is not full bore. Anyone know if this Comap is...

I recently purchased a 28mm version which I plan to fit next week. I've a few questions: 1) I read a suggestion that their supplied valves are poor and can sheer off when closed/opened. Is this true? 2) If yes, are there any good alternative valves available? I couldn't find any full bore...

I have a gledhill boilermate II system. I thought I'd finally worked out how it all functions, but the pipe thermostat has now confused me. It has a small pipe thermostat labelled as Sopac with a dial from 30-90 degrees on it. This is connected to the boiler flow and heating pump PCB. I...

I'm can hearing a clicking sound coming from the boiler pump, its a Grundfos 15-50. The heating pump is the same type and is almost quite. Both seem to be working. Both are on the 2nd setting. Does the clicking imply its worn or nearing its death? Is it worth replacing or leaving well alone...

Having had a good look over my heating circuit and rads, I've established that approx half the circuit is T'd off the main 22mm flow and return pipes (6 rads), then the flow and return have reducers down to 15mm and continue the circuit. The latter half serves 4 rads, which I've worked out to be...

When fitting an Aquadial scale inhibitor, which side should the check valve be fitted? As the instructions state there must be no possibility of hot water transfer back through, which could happen in my mains pressure thermal store if I turned off the main stop cock for any reason. And I'm...

We have a system thats been in a while and uses a Geldhill Boilermate II thermal store with an oil fired Rayburn Nouvelle. My question is concerning the almost permanent running of the boiler pump. We only switch on the Rayburn boiler when we need instant hot water or central heating...