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Hi, I wonder if anyone could help with this question. This is not something I intend to do myself, I am getting a plumber to come as I am fitting my kitchen, but don't want to get to the day and find it can't be done. I currently have a fitted hob, but will be replacing it with a...

Hi, I have to replace the mid-position valve, and a couple of rusty rads in my system. Since the system (I suspect) has never been serviced in it's ten-year life, I want to take the opportunity to give the system a good clean-out. What would be the easiest way to do this? I'm...

Hi, Just a quick question. Is it worth balancing the radiators? How much difference does it make? I know all my valves are fully open, so the system is not balanced. I do tend to find that the system is not very good once the weather gets really cold - would balancing the rads help this...

Hi, I have a Glow-worm Fuelsaver Mk2 pumped system with about 10 rads and an annoying problem. The system would be about 16 years old, serviced once a year for the past four years, cannot comment before that, but probably not. Whenever the thermostat cuts out, or the timer shuts the...

Hi, I have a mixer tap on my bath. The hot is tank-fed via 22mm pipe, the cold is mains fed via 15mm pipe. The problem is that the cold pressure is too high compared to the hot, which means that is is almost impossible to get a usable temperature when using the attached shower hose...