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Hi all I have really confused myself as to what my next steps should be prior to re tiling. I have removed old tiles from screed (tiles were down for 11 years and bonded directly to screed with thinset over the wet UFH). Obviously I have the odd divet here and there from chiselling so do I need...

Noticed a slow drop in boiler pressure recently and think I have found the culprit! Looks like my blend valve is leaking. I have sourced another valve which is 3/4". The original may possibly be 1" ? but they are not made anymore apparently according to Uponor, only 3/4 and 1 1/4. I don't see...

HI all My brother and his young family moved in to their first home last week and it has been a complete mare! Everything from the front door multi point lock jamming, total re skim needed upstairs after removing 4 layers of wall paper, to the heating problem. I am trying to help out here as...

Hi all I have a natural slate roof that has no soffits or ventilation of any type that I can see? I want to add ventilation as I am insulating the roof internally to make it a small work area. I have left 50mm behind the between rafter,100mm insulation but cannot work out how this would be...

am in the process of converting the attic area of my detached double garage in to a useful room. I don't want it to be habitable but comfortable enough to perhaps stick a tv and small sofa up there. The garage was originally built by he previous owners with the intention of being properly...

Since moving to our new home in October, we have had numerous problems. Today i found another one! We have noticed from day 1 that there was an unpleasant smell inside the built in wardrobe in my daughters room. Initially we put it down to lack of air circulation, however recently i noted that...

I am scratching my head with this one. Our house has full downstairs UFH, towel rads in 3 lower onsuites and 2 recent upstairs on suites that appear to be connected to the primaries, and 2 standard rads in the upstairs rooms. One of the upstairs towel rads seems to continuously collect air...

I have noticed the pressure of our WB 30 cdi boiler increasing over the course of a day or so. I have bled rads upstairs although downstairs is wet UFH.initially I did get some air out and the pressure dropped,then proceeded to fit auto vents to the towel rads throughout the house.The pressure...

It appears the SWA cable feeding the detached garage is simply terminated inside the meter cupboard, strait in to a henly block. The cable which i think is 6mm2 feeds a consumer unit inside the garage. By my thinking, some type of device should be fitted in the cupboard as nothing is protecting...

Hi all I am having a very strange issue with my hot water. Basically, and it appears intermittently, the boiler will not fire when there is a hot water demand from the timer and stat has not opened. The boiler is a worcester Bosch Greenstar 30CDI system boiler. My home heating and water are...

While not a plumbing question really, I wanted some opinions on how to reach a satisfactory outcome with this situation. Plumber installed a new tank which sits above the kitchen ceiling. I had to construct the new deck for it and the positioning he wanted meant that the cold water feed needed...

Plumber finished installing a Joule 250ltr horizontal cylinder in my eves space. Water is hot and it appears to be working. I noticed while I was insulating the pipe work that the return is 10 degrees hotter than the flow (water 2 way valve oil closed at the moment and I left 2 small...

I currently have a wirsbo manifold located aprox 25cm from floor level in a utility room cupboard. The manifold has been a pain recently with sticking valves etc etc. I am looking to replace it with an Uponor vario B manifold with flow indicators but i note the instructions say to mount it a...

I have got myself confused with the IP rating required for some on-suite downlights. The ceilings are 2600mm and from what i can work out, this falls outside the IP rating zones? Can anyone please clarify?

My uponor underfloor heating does not seem to be heating the hallway. Actuator is responding to commands ok and I set the stat high and have left it for 2 days to see if it heats the slab. So far I have nothing. Any ideas of things I can check?

The mixing valve in question is fitted to an Uponor system. The mix valve is always full cool and i have never seen it rotate (apart from when the test button is pressed) I note the mix temp is always fairly high and thought perhaps valve might be positioned wrong as it will turn through 360...

I will start with a bit of back ground info. We have just moved in to a really nice 5 bed/5 en-suite property which started life as a bungalow with 3 beds on the lower floor. It is set back from the road by around 40 yards and has recently had the roof space converted in to 2 more bedrooms...

I have been suffering from a strange issue the last few months. I appear to be getting water hammer in the cold feed to my megaflop cylinder. the noise starts when any tap or toilet flush , any where in the house is operated and starts off a quite a fast knock which progressively slows and...

HI all I am having my loft converted and am at the stage where i need to decide on flooring. The builders have laid 22mm OSB for the flooring and my wife has decided that an engineered wooden floor would look good. My question is should i float it or glue it with something like Sika T55? I...

Hi all I am having problems with air getting in to my open vent system. I have removed all the lagging from the pipes in the loft as i thought air might be getting in there and would appreciate an opinion on the layout as it does not look quite right to me. It appears to be a combined feed...