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Hi I am planning a refurb of my son's bathroom and want to fit a concealed shower thermostatic mixer valve but rather than fit vertically on the wall I would like to fit horizontally on a boxed in area at the end of the bath. Is there any reason that these types of valves cannot be mounted...

Hi, My sister has had an extension to her bungalow and two additional rads were installed. Since the extension was completed the two new rads have never got hot, only luke warm. All existing radiators get hot. The new rads have been bled and the whole system has apparently been balanced...

I am planning to replace my hard wired Heatmiser programmable thermostat located in my hall with a wireless Honeywell T4R thermostat and receiver. My system boiler is located in the loft with my heating 2 port valve located in my airing cupboard on the landing (next to the hot water cylinder)...

Hi, I'm currently helping my son renovate his first house and the house had a new boiler a few years ago and was fitted with a Condensing Boiler, Potterton Performa 24 ECO HE. The plastic Condensate discharge pipe and the 15mm copper pressure relief valve discharge pipe have been run out of the...

Hi I am considering adding 2 extra radiators to my existing house. One in the conservatory and an extra one in the kitchen. I have a Potterton Performa 24 ECO He Condensing Combi Boiler which I believe has a 25.2kW Output and a 9.8 l/min flow rate. The existing system is plumbed with 10mm...

Hi I am fitting a wetroom shower tray former which has a waste that fits underneath the tray and is pulled up tight to the underside of the tray by a metal ring on the top side of the tray that is tightened by three bolts. The shower tray itself has a plastic former built into the centre of the...

Hi I need to remove the hot and cold taps in my downstairs kitchen but there are no isolation valves in the pipework under the sink. The HW + CH system is run on a Potterton condensing combi boiler. The mains water stopcock is under the sink and functional. How can I remove the tap tails and...

Got an Alpha Intec 28 Boiler that's not firing up and with an Error Code E20. What's the likely cause? Flame sensor?

I had a Monarch Solo non-electric water softener installed on 28th April 2018 and it seemed to be working OK until 17th May 2018 when I checked the salt level, and the salt chamber had filled up with water to the level of the overflow, covering all the salt tablets. As the softener is under...

Hi, I have an Alpha Intec 28S System Boiler and over the past few weeks the system pressure kept dropping slowly and needed re-pressurising every week up to 1 bar. I then noticed that the system boiler pressure was rising to 3 bar when the heating was full on up to temperature. I had also...

Hi My Stuart Turner Dual Universal 3.0 Bar pump has started to randomly turn on and off for about 3 seconds. There are no leaks in the system that I can find. I checked the pressure in the vessel on top of the pump and there was zero pressure. I topped this up to 13 psi as per the Pump...

My sons door handle on the nearside passenger door of his 2010 Mark III Renault Clio has come loose to the point that I was able to extract the actual handle from the door. I removed the door card to access the door mechanism. I have removed the lock barrel and I can feel by inserting my hand...

Hi I have been doing a few general maintenance jobs for my sons mate and I noticed that the i30 Boiler CH pressure was reading 3 Bar on the gauge. I am not a plumber but I think this is too high and should be around 1 Bar. He has also mentioned that the vent pipe that goes from the boiler...

Hi, I'm refurbishing our main bathroom and creating a wetroom shower area. I've created a wetroom in our en-suite previously which has been fine. I am using tile backer board all round the wetroom area but one question I had is how high up the walls is it necessary to extend the tanking ie...

I have fitted the Alpha Intec External weather compensation probe and after connecting up and starting the Boiler, I see the External Probe icon in the display and the Boiler momentarily fires up (flame symbol in display) showing the temperature rising from about 27C to 30C and then the Boiler...

I have a 2005 Mazda 6 Estate and the Luggage Cover won't retract anymore. The spring loaded return mechanism doesn't retract the cover. Anyone any ideas if this can be fixed somehow? Regards

I am just about to get rid of our old Baxi Solo 15kW Boiler for a more efficient model. The house is 19 years old and is a 4 Bed detached and has had a large extension of the kitchen and dining room. I am going to have a 30kW system boiler fitted to get rid of the F&E Tank. I am looking...

For just over a year I have had a Techflow Turbo 2 Twin Negative head pump in the loft servicing the whole house hot water including the bathroom and en-suite showers. The installation was surveyed and approved by Techflow at that time. The system has been working fine. Recently I have...

I have renovated my en-suite and fitted a new shower head and Mixer valve which is fed from a Power pump. I removed the non-return valves from the mixer valve as I had read that they weren't necessary and may reduce the pressure. I now find that everything works fine except when I switch the...

I have installed two Techflow single ended Negative Head pumps in the loft. One pump is serving hot water from the cylinder to all domestic taps, two showers and a bath. The other pump is serving cold from the feed tank in the loft to the two showers. I have observed the minimum of 300mm...