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    Increasing water pressure options

    If you are using electric showers then you will always have very poor flow from those due to their nature. (They restrict flow as you can only get so much flow from 7-9kW showers) If you want any real advice then you need to supply more information: - current water flow per minute in litres...
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    What type of couplers are these?

    it is a grove in the middle so that the pipe stops half way through when you push it before soldering. Cut below or above those couplers (depending how long your tap flexes are) and use either isolation valves are 15mm compression coupler and remove nut and olive other end and install your flexi...
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    What type of couplers are these?

    this is your standard and used everywhere end feed coupler. It is a soldered connection
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    Nightmare boiler setup, please help.

    yep, twin programmer trying to act as a 3 channel programmer. As above, do yourself a favour and just get rid of that lot.
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    Alpha ETec33 boiler with Hive or Nest?

    I would go with Nest from the two. More refined and nicer interface. Honeywell T6 will be cheaper, but nowhere near as nice as nest and software used to play up on mine. No problems since I changed it to Nest
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    best no solder connectors for copper pipe?

    that looks quite good actually
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    How would you fix this shower leak

    Pull the silver cover out, remove little basket / trap thingy inside. You will see that the waste has little grooves or teeth. See if you can turn it clockwise. If you can then it means it loose. This happens a lot.
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    How would you fix this shower leak

    sometimes the waste on the tray can become loose - worth checking first if it needs tightening as the silicones look good in that shower room
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    shower pump needed?

    https://www.salamanderpumps.co.uk/blog/what-is-a-flange-and-why-do-i-need-one/1129
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    shower pump needed?

    you also need an S flange fitted to the cylinder so that pumped water is not taken from the top of the cylinder to avoid air getting in. Best fitted next to the cylinder and fed directly to the shower
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    shower pump needed?

    It is vented system. You can't have a mains shower or electric shower on that set up. Shower pump is the only option from your list.
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