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Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated!

Hi, This is a little off topic, but I was wondering if I'm going to run into problems if I leave my loft hatch ajar in summer? It takes the heat away from our bedroom, and really makes a huge difference to our comfort at night, but I'm confused as to whether I'm going to get condensation...

OK, I asked for a quote with a soakaway as this seems the best if not easiest option. The quote is for the following work: • Powerflush and drain down system, remove old boiler • Fit Vaillant EcoTecPlus 428 condensing boiler in same location • Run condensate to soakaway to be prepared by...

Presumably I'd also need to dig out a run to the house (with the soakaway being a metre or so away). If the pipe isn't underground then I'm going to be driving over it! How about going up, through the ceiling void and to the toilet waste? Is it really only 6mm pipe?

Namsag - I'll double check - the back of the garage has guttering but I think it just "disperses to patio".....!

The downpipe is the drain shown at the bottom of the diagram, slightly to the right. All I can think is that I'll need to break up the driveway and fit a soakaway (or rather have the engineer do it).... :(

Sorry, no, all electric apart from the boiler which suppiles CH & HW. It's an open vented system if that makes a difference. I've looked at pumping the condensate but as the nearest gutters and drains are so far away I'd imagine that the runs would be too long, and as it's a flat roof, the...

The gas supply is on the front porch underneath the gutter. Surely re-rerouting gas pipes and water pipes all that way would be a much larger and more disruptive job than digging a soakaway?

Hi All, I'm struggling to think of the best way to terminate a condensate pipe for a new boiler I want installed. I've looked into digging a soakaway (real pain as it'd next to the driveway which is tarmac over concrete) and using a pump but the nearest gutter is quite a run away and the...

Thanks Tony, I didn't know about the pump option when he came around so I'll see what the quote is with the soakaway and see if it would be cheaper (if feaslible) to use a pump instead. I believe the drainage is a single sewer system (the houses were built in the 70s) so shouldn't be a...

Hi All, I'm looking to get a condensing boiler installed but the current location is nowhere near a drain point etc. Building a soakaway would be a pain as the pipe would exit straight into the driveway, so would it be possible/legal to install a condensate pump and pump vertically to the...

The flush mechanism only needs changing (per your original post) because of the broken button, but given that the inlet is fine you probably do have a leak at the bottom of it. You can either change it for new and eliminate it as the problem, or check for grime as suggested. Also, take the...

You can most likely replace the drop valve with something like this: http://www.screwfix.com/prods/43148/Plumbing/Toilet-Fittings/Variflush-Toilet-Drop-Valve The fittings (that I've come across) tend to be the same size across the board. If the toilet is running down the overflow then...

If you unscrew "A" there's a rubber diaphragm in there. Note how it sits, it's easy to turn it inside out! Also note how part "C" sits in the grey item as you may need to out this back in place. You can buy and replace these as mentioned above, though to be honest it was only ~£12 to buy a...

Given the fact that I couldn't get a SIAMP diaphragm from Screwfix (down the road), and that it had started overflowing again, I decided to plump for a new flow valve and went for a FluidMaster 400 (I read they're better than the torbeck valves). This was incredibly fun as the stopcock...

Thanks Guys, Whilst I try and get my stop valve working (it's stuck!) could you tell me if the fill assembly simply unscrews and can then be replaced with another? Cheers, Andy

Hi All, My push button toilet recently began to overflow down the pan (via D). I took the lid off and tightened screw A which resolved this (see image below). As I had the lid off I thought I'd troubleshoot the long standing problem of it taking 10 minutes to refill enough for another...

An update - I flushed the X400 and added X100 and X200 to the system, and replaced the pump with a grundfos UPC 15/50 at the same time. The system heats up much quicker now with less, but still some cycling. I'm assuming that the return is getting up to temperature and cutting the gas etc...

OK the X400 is in the system, and I took the opportunity of the partial drain to clean out the brown crud in the F&E tank. I noticed that the pump (old celsia multihead) is weeping from the lower union so that will be replaced with a grundfos when I drain the system down and flush after the...

@bengasman - Thanks for the advice, if I get the PCB changed I'll get a CORGI in to do it. @twgas - The system blasted the draining hosepipe off when the supply to the F&E tank was turned back on (following a drain down) so there seems to be good circulation! I'm going to run some X400...