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HI I did search the forums here for quite a bit and couldn't find an answer to this. So, one of the fobs had a low battery which I replaced. But the panel (I think it is a Honywell Galaxy2 system) says there is a fault "FOB BAT" and when I try and acknowledge the fault it says "USer reset...

HI No hot water and house running on electrc fans. 8-( I have an Ideal 3100 Rd1 and LED light 3 is flashing when it powers on. The manual says sensor fault so reading other posts (and my own from 9 months ago) I replaced the sensor harness again. However this time it hasn't worked and the...

HI In an upstairs bedroom, I noticed the floorboards are not all flat. There are two lines of "humps" where they had been pushed up. I removed the floorboards on one of them and found underneath the top of a block wall that the joists are seemingly resting on. The problem is that top of the...

Hi I just changed the ball valve for the cold water tank in the loft. The existing valve was an apparently regular part2 valve but the plumber who connected it used a compression fitting onto the tail of the valve. I was sure I'd previously seen tap connectors being used there instead...

I just bought this valve hoping for something reasonably well made. It seems like there is quite a bit of sideways play in the arm (so that if you really forced it you could probably move the base of the arm past the piston thing so that the valve wouldn't close!) but I don't know if that is...

Hi We're having a new bathroom installed including a recessed soap/shampoo box which has been cut into the first skin of an existing inner block wall. It is 46cm wide. The bathroom fitters have said it doesn't need a lintel but I would definitely be grateful for a second opinion not least...

Hi Looks like our bathroom fitters have already connected the new shower mixer with 15mm pipe. Basically, there is (from me reading these forums and my insistence) 22mm dedicated feed from cw and hw tanks to the shower pump and then 22mm into the bathroom. But the last 1.5 metres or so is...

Hi After reading too much about fans, I've come to the conclusion that ideally, I would want an inline fan in the ceiling that comes on when someone walks in a certain part of the room (enters the shower cubicle). Is such a thing possible? Maybe I'd just need to tape up part of the PIR sensor...

HI Has anyone ever had any experience of buying from this site? I made a big-ish purchase recently and haven't heard from them. Admitedly haven't called them up yet which I'm planning to do tomorrow but just thought in the meantime if someone else has experience of them it would either put...

Hi I wonder if someone can help? I'm planning to remove my canopy garage door (the kind with a long spring at the top of the door). Could I just open the door fully (thereby releasing some tension in the spring) and then cut the cables either side to detach the spring from the rest of the...

Hi Our flow and return from to/from the boiler in the garage to the airing cupboard where the pump is, is 28mm pipework. I want to fit a bypass valve so that in winter, when the frost stat in the garage triggers the pump, the water can still circulate even if CH and HW are not calling. The...

Hi When things go wrong with the central hearing, its always in the middle of winter and in this case the middle of the night! I got up to the sound of the pump making a massive racket. Its an S plan system and I noticed that both motorised valves (MVs) were shut but the pump was on. There is...

Hi We have an S plan system installed by BG some years ago. The boiler is in the garage and the pump and valves in the airing cupboard. The boiler is "protected" by a pipe stat and frost stat. Today I got a chance to test it. With the system was off at the programmer and stone cold, I went...

I'm looking to buy some 22mm copper pipe and came across this. http://www.plumbplanet.com/product/508261 The price sounds too good to be true so there must be some catch? Also, how are they going to deliver a single 6M length of pipe?? They also have this...

Hi I wonder if anyone can help with this? In a bedroom in our house a persistent clicking noise can heard. It lasts for at least 30-60 minutes after turning off the heating system. So I lifted a floorboard and was almost lucky not to have cut a pipe with my circular saw due to the pipe the...

Hi I'm trying for the first time to fit a cheap interior door into an existing frame. I wonder if someone could help me out answering a couple of questions I have? The first is, I need to reduce the height of this moulded (and I think "flush") door by about 18-20mm. So 9 or 10 top and...

Hi Firstly thanks again for help in previous posts. This board is really great for folk like me. Our CH system is I think a fairly standard S plan system with FE tank in the loft and HW, 2 MVs in the airing cupboard below. The FE has a 22m expansion pipe which rises up over the FE tank and...

Hi We're thinking of installing a shower pump for a new bathroom and I have some questions. Our house has a standard vented system with large open cold tank in loft and hw cylinder in airinb cupboard. The tanks are around 30-40 years old. The mains pressure is very high here and for that...

HI After changing leaking pump valves some weeks ago I had to rejig the pipe work a bit in the airing cupboard next to the hot water tank, pump and valves. I'm a bit worried that the flow into the HW tank now passes through no less than 3 elbows in a tight loop of 22m pipework (just below...

I'm trying to remove a radiator but both the TRV and lockshield valves are proving almost impossible to pull away from the rad so that I can lift it off. The flow and return pipes rise up vertically and connect to standard right-anled valves into both sides of the bottom of the radiator.The...