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Hopefully this is a daft enough question to get a simple reply. I have fairly high mains pressure which is good for the shower, but means that the cold water tank in the loft fills fast and quite loudly even with a quiet Fluidmaster fill valve. I would therefore like to slow the fill speed down...

I realise this may be a chronically stupid question but I'm going to risk asking it anyway. I had my flaky facias & soffits replaced today. At the front of the property the chaps found that the PVC overflow pipe sticking out of the facia board was freely flapping and apparently unconnected at...

I recently purchased a Heatmiser PRT thermostat to replace a 20-odd year old mechanical room stat (4 wires: earth, neutral, live, call) at my sister's place. I followed the instructions to the letter (and checked this forum!), but with the earth wire isolated in a terminal block and live, 'call'...

I posted on this forum a while ago asking for advice on a noisy central heating system. Last Friday a plumber came round to do some remedial work to the pipework in the airing cupboard: namely getting rid of all the Tees (replacing with gently curved pipe), relocating the pump to the vertical...

The other day I became aware of a "funny noise" emanating from the hall radiator. After a careful listen I realised that the squeaking/whistling noise was coming from one of the bleed screws (its a double-panel rad). I tried to tighten it up, but it was already fully tightened. Realising that...

This is a bit of a saga, but I will try and be brief. In August 2004 my warm air system packed up, so I forked out for the installation of a fully pumped Honeywell 'S' central heating system. Everything worked great, but there seemed to be a lot of air circulating noisily through the...