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Just a follow up in case it helps anyone else. The distance from the road edge to the house is unfortunately... 60m. Its because there is a long shared drive and I'm at the end of it. Average cost of sending a mole down to replace with 32mm plastic ... £1500! Ouch.

OK - had my visit by the water board ... the pressure at my outside tap is approx 2.8 bar, which makes sense as my unvented system is pressure limited to 3 bar. However, the flow rate is only 10 liters/min. When measures at the roadside ... the pressure is 5.6 bar! And .. the flow rate was...

The stop cock is brand new and fully open (minus a qtr turn). WRT flow and pipe sizes - what would you expect to see as pipe diameters at the stop cock or elsewhere? Should there be any difference within the house itself? Does this mean that most people who have mains pressure systems don't...

I don't know the flow rate just yet - water board coming on Tuesday to check at house entry and at road. Wow. I was going to ask about the Accumulator but then spending a bit more search time... I see Chris et al have provided loads on it. THANKS. I am wondering whether changing the pipe...

The boiler is a unvented Vaillant ecoTech plus 630 - its a system boiler (if that's the right term), not a combi and its currently at 1.5 bar idle, and the cylinder is a 200L Tempest Stainless steel version, pretty much like Vantage or Heatrae. I used to have a standard HW cylinder 150L on the...

I have a mains pressure hot water system and two first floor bathrooms with showers. When one is used at a time, the flow is just fine - each shower is a Grohe thermostatic. When two are used (and no taps/washing machines/toilets flushing) the flow is quite seriously reduced to a point where...