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    What are the symptoms?

    To indicate that my brushes need replacing on my Miele Premium 500 (W504)? Cheers, Stu.
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    Miele Premier 500 (w504)

    Hi can someone help please? The two red lights "Check drain" "Check Inlet" keep coming on after about 2 weeks worth of washing. This is the leak detection wit a sort of float switch in a small sump in the bottom of the washer. When I strip it down there is water in this sump but I can't see...
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    Squaring up Old Partition Wall

    Hi, what is the best way to level/square up an old wall frame? I have removed the lath and plaster from 2 walls and plan to replace it with Marmox backer board, however the existing timbers are not very flat across the width of the wall. I plan to screw cls to the sides of these but was...
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    Pipe Size help Please?

    I am going to use a Stuart Turner Monsoon S2 twin to supply a Crosswater WLPB1500RC thermostatic mixer diverter to supply a shower and bath. I know that I have to run 22mm pipes to the pump but do I need to run 22 up to the mixer and do I have to run 22 from the mixer to the shower head and bath...
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    How to quickly fix burst pipe imperial

    Help :evil: I have a burst water pipe in the garage, nipped to the builders merchants for some push fit end stops (couldn't find my emergency spares) sawed the pipe off at the split only to find that it is imperial and the push fits, won't fit :oops: . Result very flooded garage lots of...
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    Finishing A Sanded Old Floor

    I have just had an extension built and am renovating the now middle room, I have sanded back the floorboards which I think are pitch pine. The house is quite old and was built in the 30's. I am unsure how to finish, I was going to cover with Teak oil or possibly Tung oil but have read that this...
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    New Pressurised Vented Cylinder??

    I am having the bathroom rehashed and was planning on putting a 2.5-3.0 Bar pump in for the shower, the bathroom shop has suggested a "pressurised Vented Cylinder" Could someone tell me please? Where would be a good place to buy such a cylinder How much should it cost to install Is it a...
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    Credit Crunch Hits Bathroom

    Hoping someone out there can help. Having a new bathroom fitted visited every bathroom shop in the area eventually found a suite that me and the missus agreed on then found the importer had gone bust. We were trying to buy a "Yukka Trio" suite with the importer being "Plumbing Imports" in...
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    Vented to Unvented

    How difficult is it to change from a vented system to an unvented system. Also what are the costs involved. I an having a bathroom refurbed and someone suggested changing the gravity fed system that I have to an unvented one, as a second option instead of installing a pump with a mixer shower...
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    "Check Drain" Miele washing machine

    Hi, Could someone tell me how to remove the side panels from my miele washing machine (Premier 500) please? The machine does not complete the cycle and says "Check Drain" I have tried to get the side panel off, but it looks like you have to remove the front to get at the last 2 screws. Thee...
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    Checking 3 port valve. How?

    Someone wrote in a previous thread," "the 3 way valve was not sealing when the h/w circuit was meant to be off " How would you check for this? I have a noisy CH system as posted in an earlier thread, I have since balanced the radiators, but we still have the noise. Is it possible that I...
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    Banging, Balancing & 3 way valves??

    Hi, I live in a house with a very old CH system and boiler. The system seems to have 22mm pipes with 10mm pipes tee'd off to the radiators, therefore as I understand not a proper microbore system and also not quite conventional ie 15mm to the rads. During the winter we put the CH on constant and...
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