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Hi, We have a Victorian house with mostly original sash windows and some newer double glazed ones. The house faces south and those windows get a real hammering - hot in the summer and very wet in the winter. The sills in particular seem to need constant TLC. They are currently high gloss white...

Thank you all for the helpful replies. That's very useful. I think I'll get some quotes from other companies regarding cost for conversion which meets building regs and then decide whether to proceed at all. Thanks again.

Hi, Hoping there are some building regs experts on here... We have a Victorian house that is built into the hillside and has a lower ground floor. This is accessed by a staircase from the main hallway on the ground floor. There are several rooms on this floor, and the lower ground floor has a...

Thanks for all the advice. They tested flow in the end rather than pressure, and determined that we were getting 10 l/min inside. At the pavement/house stopcock the flow was 81 l/min. Paid the guys a bit of cash and they upgraded the mains supply pipe to 25 mm. Even though the meter and beyond...

Thanks for the reply - much appreciated. I'll update when I've got the flow and pressure figures.

It was done by a large local company who are definitely G3 registered. They did sign it off..but I don't know that they took flow and pressure measurements after. Are they supposed to?

Thank you for your reply - that's helpful. I've persuaded Yorkshire Water to come and investigate the 'low' water pressure - so I'm hoping they will do some measurements. As I recall, pressure and dynamic (?when multiple taps are on) weren't checked. They measured static flow from the kitchen...

I should mention that pipe beyond the unvented cylinder to the rest of the house is 15mm.

Hi, Hope somebody can help me. We live in a tall victorian house. Shower pressure has been poor for some time, and so we had a large plumbing company round who suggested changing our gravity-fed water system for an unvented cylinder. I showed them our incoming supply pipe, which was 15mm, but...

Hi guys More help please.... I bought the new valve and thought I wa doing really well....even added an isolation valve to the plumbing. But it was very tight going it getting past the siphon, and it just catches, either on the ceramic, the siphon or the flush handle and won't reliably stop...

Hi, Thanks very much for the replies - very helpful. I'm pretty certain the toilet supply has always been mains pressure - there were tanks in the attic but they were gravity supply to the hot water I think; does that seem plausible? Looking through other threads I noticed this thread...

Hi all, We have a tall Victorian house. Toilet on top floor (4 floors above mains inlet) has always been a bit dodgy but never like this. We don't use it very often so not sure when issue started - probably in last few weeks. Recently had an unvented cylinder put in basement and they balanced...

Hi, Thanks for the really helpful advice. That was the conclusion that I had come to in the end. My worry about not taking the whole rebate off, and drilling holes, is that the holes may plug themselves off with dirt at some point. So I think I will probably take the whole thing off. I'm hoping...

Thanks for the helpful reply. Any reason to go Exitex over stormguard? And just one of the normal aluminium thresholds? Thanks

Dear all Grateful for any advice you can offer. I'm not sure if I'm overtthinking this! We have a south facing internally opening back door which has been causing problems since we moved in a few years ago. I think it is an original Victorian door, set in a rebated frame. I think the currebt...

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That's a shame. How long would a reprogram take for an engineer? i.e. how much is it likely to cost?! (roughly) Thanks

Hi, I took a couple of photos of the end station. Would be grateful for any advice on whether it is a plus, and if so how I can reset the codes. Many thanks.

Ok, from memory I'm pretty sure it is a plus then. It certainly seemed to have more than 8 zones. I will check in in the next few days, or maybe at the weekend and get back to you. May end up taking a photo. Thank you again!

Thanks again for your help. How do I determine what the end station is? (Is that the box on the wall nearby?)