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Hi DIYNotters, I am redecorating my bathroom and have revealed the soil stack coming off the toilet. I was under the impression that a soil stack should always vent through the roof. This one doesn't and has been capped to approx the hieght of the toilet sistern. There is often a...

Hi, we are having problems after removing and refitting the lounge radiator after decorating. We have moved recently and have been used to the old style gravity type central heating system and there was no issues with taking off and replacing radiators. In our new house we have a Worcester...

I have had whining radiators for several months. I have a two pipe open-vented with a boiler in the airing cupboard. I also have a three-way diverter, a grundfoss pump and an air seperator. Because of the whining and the nice weather I have decided to put a cleanser into the header tank...

I have read a few posts related to damp concrete floors and tiling. I have a 1960's house where they have linked an small out-house with the kitchen. They have removed the old back door and linked the out-house with the kitchen using a flat roof and a set of french windows. I have been...

Has nobody else noticed a deposits in their header tank floating on the surface of the water in an vented central heating system. :? I think help forum is brilliant :P But need more help as paranoid that gunk in my system could blow up my boiler :!: :(

Hello. Is it alright to tee off from the cold water feed that leads up to the header tank in my loft? I have a indirect vented system and I have mains fed cold water in the actual bathroom and a cold water feed up to the loft (and the tanks). I'm guessing that it shouldn't matter, but I...

Has anybody ever found this to be true? I protected my system with Fernox (which is a liquid) and a few months later my header tank had a weird jelly type substance floating on the surface of the water? It would be cool if I could have re-assurance on this. I don't have any ice cream to...

I am installing a new bathroom and while I was draining the hot and cold water system I noticed orange foamy gunk (not in the hot water storage tank) in the small header tank that is linked to the central heating. Here's the history:- A while ago I did drain the central heating system...

I have just read a forum about the same kind shower plumbing that I have. i.e. Cold feed from tank in loft and hot feed from an off-shoot of the hot vent pipe coming from the top of my hot water cylinder. There is no Surrey flange and the off-shoot for the hot water is above the level of...

I have a Newteam 201 powershower which has a motorized pump located in the shower casing. It is mixer shower that is fed by a hot and cold pipe. The hot water seems to be coming out of the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard. The problem is that the shower works great for about 5-10...

My Potterton Profile 50e will not light. Please somebody reassure me that I have not meddled to far and knackered it!! I recently changed the grundfos pump as the old one was gunged up with red/brown rusty crap. The new pump was working fine and there is water does dribble out when I take...

Can anybody help me get the pilot light back on and my boiler firing again. The boilers I have had in the past have had manual switches and buttons to hold in to relight a pilot light. My Potterton Profile doesn't seem to have any of these things and it all looks automatic with wiring...

I am going to de-sludge today! Is right that I should tie up the ball-cock in my F&E tank drain a litre of water from the system and then add X400? Any help with this gratefully received as I am on the way to B&Q.

I have recently found red/brown sludge in my grundfos pump. Which I replaced and now works silently. I was concerned that my Honeywell Y plan 3 pos diverter would be affected as I wasn't sure that I shouldn't see movement in it's switch from auto to manual/open. I have been told this is...

Please help me as I am new to this help forum! :oops: I have just fitted a new grundfos pump as my old one was rattling and on removing it I found loads of red rusty looking gunk inside motor. I took the fuse out of my consumer box so not to get zapped BUT: when I switched it all back...