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Hi all, I've got a damp patch that suddenly appeared in the living room after some intense rainfall this week. It was quite damp to the touch on the inside but no obvious entry point outdoors. I have a suspicion that the entry point might be the window frame, where the sealant has aged and...

Hi all, I regularly get a leak from a Velux window during periods of intense rainfall and I finally managed to diagnose what I think would affect many others. So posting up to hopefully help. In my case I cleared out all the gunk and moss, etc and then started testing. It seems that the rain...

Hello, I recently had a water softener installed and as part of that some changes to the cold mains feed (and feed into Megaflo). Within a few months of this, pressure has been dropping off on the showers, toilets, etc and is quite laughable at times (e.g. no water at all). Is this likely to...

Hi, is there such a thing as a UPVC patio door that only has an internal locking mechanism and is flush on the outside? I.e. you can lock/unlock from inside only, go outside, close the door/open it again from outside (provided nobody locked it from the inside in the meantime)? If so, can I...

Hello, I have always had mild spluttering on my hot taps, but I have just had a new Salamander CT50 fitted and it is now much worse on the bath taps. Kitchen taps is about as bad as it was before. The salamander drives the bath taps and bath shower (previously bath taps were unpumped, just...

Hi, I have a Profile 50e sealed system with 6 rads in a flat. Hot water is fine. However, CH doesn't keep running. It's about 19C in here right now and the thermostat is set to around 25 or 30, but it never keeps running. Rads are aired and do get very hot when it runs for a while...

Hi, I have a shower that is installed behind a tiled wall. It was installed about 8 years ago and over the past 12 months, the other side of the wall (i.e. outside the bathroom) has been bubbling and getting damp. The shower has a thermostatic control, which is separate from the water pipe...

Hi, 1 of my rads only get super-hot when starting up from cold. But once the cylinder is full of hot water, it goes warm-to-hot. Then, if I call hot water via shower/bath, that rad gets hot, but never super-hot again. Is this a problem with the motorised valve? Setup is: Profile 50e...

Hi, the TRV control head on one of my radiators broke (the plastic part of the housing at the base), so the control head doesn't fit on anymore. The rest is fine - the gold pin is now obviously in the up position and the radiator is very hot. Can I just get another head and screw it on...

I'm refurbing a flat and it has an odd heating system setup. I've been testing it and it seems to trip out a lot. PCB is OK. I think its something to do with the flow.. (pump is on the return, rad 1 must always be on)? Anyway, I've mapped out what I can see in the attached image. It looks like a...

Hi & Seasons Greetings! I have a Potterton Profile 50e, sealed system with a few problems that I hope someone may be able to shed some light on: 1. In the summer, when HW only, the rads heat up. In the winter, when HW+CH, the heaters don't get hot or stay hot once the hot water cylinder is...