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Hi all We're having a new heating system installed, replacing a Ravenheat combi with a Worcester Bosch 30CDI and 300L unvented cylinder. The plumber's quote included a 'cold water flush' by default, with a power flush being a £490 optional extra. He's not given it the hard sell at all...

Hi all 4 bed detached, two bathrooms and cloakroom, 16 rads, and 4 people including two young children. Out hot water demands are growing by the day and if it wasn't already awful for just the two of us, our 10 year old Ravenheat combi boiler is proving entirely insufficient for our water...

Hi all We have a kitchen that looks like this in one corner: We basically don't like it and want the wall to be square. This would allow us much more flexibility when we get the kitchen replaced in terms of layout, as well as an extra couple of square metres of space. I know very...

Hi I'm trying to find the simplest way to take a permanent and switched live off my lighting circuit for an extractor fan. I was going to splice into the feed in the loft and use a junction box of some kind. However upon opening up my light switch I found an interesting arrangement, including...

Hi all I'm about to install an in-line extractor fan in our main bathroom. It has a window, but we still get condensation problems as we often have to leave the house very soon after showering for work, so the window doesn't stay open for long enough. It also makes the bathroom freezing and...

Hi all I've bought a 2A switch that will break the circuit when our wardrobe door is closed. I also have 3 x 240V LED downlighters that I'm planning to install in the wardrobe so that they come on when the door opens. Please could someone take a look at my proposed wiring diagram and check...

Hi guys I've recently taken a 22mm cooper pipe down from my cold water cistern to the shower pump in the airing cupboard. My question is simply - do I need to earth bond the exposed vertical pipe you can see in this picture? The other (painted) pipes are already bonded as you can...

Hi guys Two years ago, we paid xxx Ltd. of Redditch several thousand pounds to have our bathroom refitted, i.e. they ripped out the old suite, re-plumbed everything and tiled. There were two builders, a plasterer, an electrician (though the pump was under the bath and connected to a normal...

Hi all I have a (currently) un-lagged copper pipe running from my cold cistern in the loft to the pump in the airing cupboard. The problem is that conventional lagging is going to be fiddly, with the pipe passing very close to several joists and support beams. Can I just cover it with loft...

Hi all I've just installed a Salamander CT50+ and everything is great, but for one niggle...when I turn down the flow control (Mira Pace EV thermostatic mixer) very low for when I'm shaving in the shower, there's a banging noise from somewhere (which I guess is what they call water hammer)...

This thread is for people Googling 'Techflange' as I did. It describes how to fit an Essex flange style Techflange (click me for example) to a hot water cylinder. I'm very much an amateur DIYer, and a total plumbing novice. This was my first 'big' plumbing job. I hope someone finds it useful...

Hi all Does the above connection exist? I'm plumbing in a shower pump that has 15mm inlet push-fits, but I need to take the 22mm supply pipe down to fit this at the very last stage. I could just use a reducing coupler, but are there any connections that have a built-in male fit so I don't...

Hi all Today I'm drilling a hole in the plastic cold water cistern in the attic as well as a hole in the dhw copper cylinder in the airing cupboard. This frankly terrifies me...so can you share you tips about how not to **** it up please? I.e. drill bit to use, how fast to drill, any...

Hi all I'm running 22mm pipe down from the cold water tank in the attic, to the shower in the airing cupboard. Is it a problem if I use an elbow instead (like this): instead of smooth bends, as I really don't see how I can use smooth bends with the layout I have. Once into the...

Hi all My hot water cylinder has a slow leak at the following connection: Access is a bit of pig as you can see...what am I looking at here for a resolution? Full drain down, disconnect everything, rotate cylinder and replace connection? Re-plumb connection to entirely new...

Hi all My garden tap does not leak when switched off, but when turned on, leaks from this bit: What is the solution? I assume the washer is ok as there's no leak when it's off, so do I just need to strip it down and re-assemble with PTFE in the pertinent places? Many thanks.

Hi I've decided to repair a botched shower install myself (long story, but this might give you some idea of it): (That's the cold feed to the pump you can see top left, the pump is 2 metres away at the end of the bath) This is the current layout, I am running dedicted 22mm feeds...

Hi About two years ago, my wife and I had our bathroom refitted by local tradesmen (a couple of installers, plasterer, tiler and electrician, all working for the same company). All seemed well apart from some niggles with the shower pump, however in the last few months, floor tiles have...