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Good Afternoon! Not sure whether this is a plumbing or building question, advice appreciated. The previous occupants of our house replaced the top half of a cast iron soil stack with a plastic one, not so bad in itself but for some reason the join between the two has created a dog leg with...

Thank you for the replies. I will contact the NICEIC. They were registered with NICEIC as that is where we got their details from. However I have previously noticed that the contact details on the NICEIC website do not match that of their own website. Are NICEIC registered companies...

Hello! I'm after some advice, I'm sure someone here will have the answer. Back in February 2010 we had our house rewired. On completition we were provided with the test certificate and were told that the job would be registered with NICEIC/building control and that we would subsequently...

Yep, that corner is the right hand side of the bay window for the living room Neil

No, no chimney in that corner. Basically it's just the external wall of the house and to the right hand side of the corner on the external side is where the bathroom waste pipes run. Neil

Thanks for the responses. Tamz - I don't have a water meter so cannot use that method of checking, however I will try listening in the area. Agile - in response to some of your questions. The damp patch is on the floor of the cellar, which is just under 2 metres below the surface. The...

Just wanted to say thanks for the responses to my query and to say that the "boil-up" trick finally cured the problem or at least appeared to anyway. CH and HW now running all ok....touch wood! Cheers

Ok, so no sooner do I fix one problem, with advice from this forum, another one quickly follows it! Anyways, I have a growing damp patch in the corner of my cellar that I believe may be the tell tale sign of an underground leak. The corner where the damp patch is showing has the...

Hi Martin, thanks for the reply. This is what we've done so far, perhaps we are narrowing down the possibilities? The electrician supplied a plumber and his diagnosis was an airlock. In an attempt to fix this he removed the temperature sensor from the boiler and used the boiling water to...

We have been in our house for 6 months now and have just had the house rewired. During the process of rewiring the electrician managed to cut through a water pipe. At the time the electrician wasn’t aware what pipe it was and switched off the main stop-cock and turned on all the taps including...