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Hello, I wonder if someone could give me some guidence... The paint on my landing is starting to flake off the walls; the paint was applied by the previous owners about 5 years ago and my suspicion is that they painted directly onto the fresh plaster without any sort of primer or undercoat. I...

Fantastic Noseall, that is a great help. In two sentences you've made sense of the confusing information I got from a whole lot of different websites. I feel happy that I know how to go forward. Thanks very much

Hello all I have an integral garage, with a doorway in from the porch. I would like to put in a stud wall to partition off the back section of the garage so that it can be used to house some gym equipment. I don't want to do anything fancy, and I want to keep the costs right down, but also...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can give me some guidance. I would like to add a small en-suite (mains-fed shower and basin) to a bedroom. I am fairly confident on my DIY ability, but I have a slight nagging doubt about one thing..... I would like to take the hot feed for the basin from the hot pipe...

Proposed hot feed taken from just after exit from HWC

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Hi Dukie, thanks for your thoughts, in particular regarding what may have happened to the pump after I reduced the head of water from the F&E cistern. To answer your question, having said on my original thread that I thought the pump was still working, I am no longer sure of that. The...

Hi Softus Yes it does seem a rather tortuous route. The cold feed and vent pipes join the system up in the loft and are 960mm above the highest point in the DHW primary circuit. I've made a diagram of the circuit if this helps, click the link below to see the picture...

Hi John, thanks for the reply. As far as I can tell the boiler is firing normally, that is, the same as it was prior to the work I did. In order for the central heating to work, the boiler has always needed to have the hot water on as well. If I turn on just the central heating the boiler...

Hi, thanks for the reply. It does sound from my description like it would be gravity fed hot water (I think it probably was originally), but it is actually pumped. There is one pump on the C/H circuit and another seperate one on the H/W circuit, which looks to me like it was added as an after...

Hello all I am a trainee plumber, sadly without a mentor, and I have come across a problem which I can't figure out and would really appreciate some help. My water cylinder is no longer getting heated up, so I have no domestic hot water. The water is however getting heated in the boiler...