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    Help Needed with Ikea Kitchen Fixings / Accessories

    hello all I'm in need of a hand with an IKEA 'BODBYN' drawer unit. This is the type of unit that you remove the drawer facia when you need to get to the back of the cupboard (drawer runners are fixed so you can't take drawers out completely) So i took the facia off one of the drawers and the...
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    Extend New Type Virgin Media Cable

    Hi there We have just had Tivo and VM Fibre broadband delivered on a self install package. Virtually all the supplied cables are too short. Basically a cable from the inlet to splitter, the two more from there to Tivo and home hub. The connectors are something I've never seen before - they...
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    Log Cabin / Shed in Garden of Flat

    Hi everyone, bit of advice needed if possible: I own the upper flat in a converted Edwardian semi (just us upstairs and a similar flat downstairs), the original house garden was split into two large squares, each flat has its own garden with its own access, ours is the rear one furthest from...
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    Radiators Inflated Like a Balloon - Dodgy PRV?

    Hello all, I'm a fitter with a question is regarding a PRV. We fitted a new Worcester Compact 30si for a family in early Feb 2014. Been working OK ever since, save for customer noticing a long delay in the heating kicking back in if someone runs a tap etc so after I visited to check the...
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    Hot & cold outside taps in garden - water regs?

    I've got a customer who has asked if its possible to run a hot & cold feed into his garden - the reason is to fill the kids massive swimming pool with something other than freezing cold water. At a guess I think that although unusual, it is OK to do. Anyone disagree?
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    Secondary return

    Hi all, Have got a full system to do over the next few weeks which requires a DHW secondary return. Couple of questions relating to this: 1. Do the yellow pumps used for this secondary return have any kind of timer integrated in them, or are they wired to an external timer , or do they...
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    Minor Works Cert? No part P.....

    Hi all, heating engineer here with no Part P qualification. I've got a fused spur to run into a loft for new boiler being sited there. Will be run about 4 metres, potentially from a feed currently supplying an immersion heater. Will run in mini trunking in its entirety. I suggest taking it...
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    Harton Unvented Cylinder

    Hi all, anyone come across one of these unvented cylinders recently? Its a Harton-Cosybug 'budget indirect unvented' unit, installed around 1998. I need a combination valve for it and was wondering if parts are available for them. Cheers Paul
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    Leaking Heatrae Sadia Megaflow

    Had one leaking from the thermostat phial today, straight out of the box. Is this the dodgy weld people always talk about?
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    Ariston Microgenus 28 HE

    I know most people don't fit these crap units, and I really don't blame them, but I was railroaded into it by a customer recently and I wondered if anyone on here has fitted one recently? My question is regarding the connection between flue elbow and boiler flue spigot: Firstly, the flue...
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    No gas to property, need meter.

    Hi all, Anyone know of the procedure for having a gas meter installed where there is currently no gas to the property? By chance 2 jobs have come up at the same time with the same problem, one in a 4 storey block of flats (8 flats in total), and one in a 1st floor conversion, where at some...
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    Boiler flue <300mm from internal corner

    Told a prospective customer the other day the bad news that he can't have his new boiler flue where he wants it as it is too close either to the opening window or the internal corner. He wants it somewhere in a 500mm strip of brickwork and it just ain't happening. He apparently got on to...
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    CONDENSE PIPE & FLAT ROOF QUERY

    Hi all, I've got a condense pipe to run from an upstairs bedroom in a terraced peoperty, across a flat roof, and to terminate in the rainwater guttering at the end of the flat roof. As it is a terrace and each house has an almost identical flat roof, the only guttering / downpipe is at the...
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    LPG questions

    I have the domestic NG qualifications but not LPG and a customer is very desperate for me and me alone to change their LPG boiler as I come personally reccomended and they do not trust anyone else. If I didn't affect their LPG gas supply during the installation, and got a LPG accredited...
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    MAINS WATER "ACCUMULATOR"

    Hi all. Have a question relating to increasing mains water pressure: In my 1st floor flat we have quite low mains pressure, 1 bar standing, 0.7bar working pressure. I want to install a combi as we have not even a single cupboard and the current airing cupboard would be useful. An old...
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    Replacing Powermax 155

    Have got a customer looking to replace a Range Powermax 155 (installed in new build property - 2000) with a Vaillant 37kw combi. It is going to be sited away from where the current unit is (cupboard in the middle of the house), and I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the DHW...
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    Install Worcester Highflow

    Hi all Got a customer who is very keen on a new HE Worcester Highflow to replace his old balanced flue Highflow. I've never installed one of these and Worcester have removed all the installation instructions from their website so I can't make an assessment of how tricky the installation...
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    Gas run hard up against wall

    Hi all, Have a tricky external gas run to do. 28mm pipe, with about 5 soil stacks to get around or go behind. Was wondering if any of the installers out there have any suggestions for such situations. If the 28mm pipe is clipped with closeable pipe clips then it will not get behind the soil...
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    Extension (flat roof) insulation

    Hi all, have got a 1st floor flat, building is a larger style 2 up 2 down with a single room extension at the back done many years ago. Extension has an un-insulated thin flat roof and 3 external walls, and a sodding great draughty sash window. Room gets really cold in winter. We're doing...
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    IDEAL SPRINT: DIMENSIONS

    Has anyone got an MI for an Ideal Sprint II or know its dimensions? Need to know the height of the boiler due to new boiler going in on Monday. Lost my notes from when I visited the place! Cheers in advance
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