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    Duravit Soft Close Toilet Seat - adjustable?

    Hi! Wondering if anyone has any experience with Duravit soft close seats, and if they are adjustable? I have just fitted two, and they close very slowly to begin with, then gather pace and make quite a bang as they close. Wondering if they can be adjusted at the hinge somewhere...
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    Wunda w82rf stats

    Hi! We have a 4 wunda zoned RF thermostats, they seem to be locked into manual mode and we can't get them into programmable mode....anyone got any experience with these? Thanks
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    Loud tìcking waste

    Hi all After some advice.... We are getting fed up with our waste knocking each time we use hot water. the knoking seems to only when we run the hot water from a cold start in the ensuite. Guess the pipe is just cold and the hot water makes it move enough to make noise. I can feel the...
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    Safe Route and Lintel

    Hi All Looking for any advice if possible please. I am adding a couple of wall lights from the lighting circuit to my new garden room. I want to run a cable that traverses the proposed bifold doors underneath the lintel, so, two lights from one switched live switch, standard stuff. Is it...
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    Cold Rad, Not Stuck TRV!

    Morning All, Got a frustrating issue with a cold rad. Its had its TRV turned down over summer and most of winter as it is in the spare room. Went to turn it up today, and its not happy. It isnt the furthest from the boiler, and all others in the house are nice and toasty. Its a new combi...
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    Reccomend me a shower!

    Hi! We are about to get our ensuite installed, but wondering about which shower to go for. Our old plumber said to get an electric one, but having had one before, I dont really fancy one. We have a 40kw baxi platinum combi. Currently got on thermostatic mixer in the family bathroom, which...
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    basin wastes and stud wall

    Hi! Looking for some advice. We are planning our bathroom, partitioning off a stud wall in our bedroom for an Ensuite. Ideally we would like a semi ped on one of the new walls. hot and cold csn come under the floorboards and up the stud wall with no problem, but can someone let me know...
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    Water Based Underfloor Heating

    Morning All, After any advice. We are putting a kitchen extension on our house, and we want some form of heating under the tiles. Its approx a 14m2 area. So, rather than using a large amount of electric underfloor heating, which will probaby amount to a couple of kw, we wondered about...
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    New Combi - Pressure Loss

    Hi All, Wondering if anyone can advise.... We recently had our tanked system replaced with a combi. Baxi Platinum HE. All worked well for a month or two. However, I recently changed a radiator in the systemt to a larger one. This resulted in lots of air in the system, generally...
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    Domestic Three Phase Using Single Phase

    Hi All, Not an expert, so after any insights... My house appears to have a three phase supply, which has been adapted to only use one of the phases. Guessing it was put in during the days when people thought storage heaters were the future. It has a modern RCD rin rail circuit breaker...
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    rising damp at base of hearth?

    Hi all, recently moved into a new house and tackling the damp! We have a chimney stack which has been leaking. Upstairs we had a large damp patch which was caused by leaking felt and rotten batten. So the roof is now sound and upstairs is sorted. However, after the recent cold and wet...
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    Soil Stack / Extension Question

    Hi all - just after some quick advice - sure its simple. We're thinking about an extension to our house to add ensuite. Current soil stack is opposite side of the house, around 7m away on the opposite flank wall, although the kitchen sink is located on the middle of the rear wall...
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    Opal Trident Low Pressure Light / No Flow

    Hi, Have a problem with our triton opal shower: For the last few months, we have had an intermittant low pressure problem, where the low pressure light will come on and the flow will continue but become cold. (the water pressure at the mains is fine). After a few minutes it would recover...
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