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    Currently open hot water cylinder! Help!

    :oops: Having removed the original 3/4 inch connector in the top of the cylinder to replace it with a warix flange for the shower pump (the pump had originally been t'd from the down pipe from the vent and was creating air locks a sa result) the warix flange will not go in and now nor will...
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    U bend's in my pipes

    I am just replacing a bath - the hot and cold come up through the floor directly beneath where the taps are but rather than have the pipework going straight up to the taps they have too large u bends in them - the come up 3 inches, go off at a right angle for 6 inches, up a further 3 inches and...
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    Good Shower Pump for Cylinder Hot Water

    Anyone got any recommendations for a good shower pump where we have tank fed cold and cylinder fed hot water? Was thinking of trying one of the new Stuart Turner ones - http://www.stuart-turner.co.uk/products/showermate/s18-bar-twin
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    Back boiler and extra rads.

    Evening. Im going to help a friend add a couple of new rads. He only has rads upstairs and wants a couple in his living room on the ground floor. He has a back boiler behind his fireplace. Are they tank fed or do they have a mains feed like on a combi? He doesn't seem to know...
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    Re-tiling on to marine ply or aquapanel

    Evening. I am about to re do the shower cubicle. Currently we just want to put up some plain white tiles and then re do the whole bathroom next year. I guess that I would be best to use Marine Ply rather than aquapanel if the tiles are going to come done in a year or so. Any...
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    Clicking radiator

    Just one of my rads is making a clicking sound - not constantly just once in a while. It clicks continuously for a few minutes and then just stops. the rads are all on. It sounds a little like metal on metal rather than an actual clicking. The sound is very regular in terms of about every 2...
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    Putting the washing machine in the bathroom

    Hi. Here is the query - there is loads of room int he bathroom and so thinking of putting the washing machine in there if the electrician can work out a way of doing it for us. With regards to the water supply I am worried that putting the washing machine in to the cold water supply...
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    Radiator Problem

    We have just fitted a new radiator in an extension. There was a rad ont he wall behind so we have teed off from the feed and return to that rad, through the wall and fed the new rad. The new rad is only getting warm at the top - and then not even as hot as the others. Only one of the...
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    Fitting a shower pump help

    I am fitting a Stuart Turner Monsoon 1.5U. The airing cupboard with the HWC is on the ground floor. The shower is on the first floor but the pipework goes in to the loft within a few feet of the cold water cistern level hence the universal Stu Turner (in case of negative head probs)...
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    New rad cold at top

    The radiator in the en suite has been replaced. The system is fed from an F&E tank in loft and was drained and refilled to have the rad changed. The system was bled and the rad appeared to be working fine. It then got It was cold at the top and hot at bottom so we bled it and it was lovely and...
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    Adding new socket from a fused spur

    I have a fused spur in the airing cupboard that runs the timing for the immersion but now need to add a shower pump - can i take a fused spur from the spur I does it have to come direct from the ring main ?
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    The hot water is heating the rads

    Morning. I've got a bit of a confusing one. A system that has worked fine for a decade is now heating the rads when the hot water is turned on. It is as far as I can tell a standard vented indirect system. As soon as you turn the hot water on at the controls you get hot water but the rads...
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    Leaking immersion heater on unvented system

    Hi. The top immersion heater on the unvented cylinder is leaking slightly. It's surrounded by limescale as we are in a very hard water area. it's a brand new fitted flat and apparently this problem has occured in other flats and refitting the heater has solved the problem as it has...
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    Water running cloudy

    Over the past few days the water from all our cold taps has started running cloudy. Things of note: It used to run cloudy just after you turned the tap on and then ran clear a few seconds after. About two weeks ago a plumber changed the cold water over in our flat from tank fed to...
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    External Stop Tap

    Hi. I need to turn the water off to my property. outside all of the properties on the street is a small manhole cover with Saunders Water written on it which I assume is the external mains stop tap. :? When I prize this cover off there is what I would expect - a 7 or 8 inch diameter pipe...
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