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    Noise on the pipe when heating goes on and off. Help

    A year ago I got house completely re plumbed with new pipe and heating system. I got system boiler with unvented cylinder. Issue is when heating goes on and when goes of we can hear a very noise on some pipe like TRRRRRR DUDUDUDU ( not easy to explain) This was noted t the plumber last year and...
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    40mm to 68mm Pipe Connection?

    Appreciate I've posted a few topics recently, but the help I've had while I've been working on my extension has been really very helpful. This time I'm trying to get my head around the best way to connect the rainwater downpipe and the washing machine waste pipe together (68mm and 40mm...
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    90 Degree Flexible Waste Pipe

    Just plumbing in a new downstairs WC in a small extension. Stud walls are up, water feed is connected up and ready to supply the toilet and washing machine but I've hit a bit of a problem working out how to deal with waste from the toilet... The toilet will be backed up against the rear of the...
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    Risk for a water pipe to collapse?

    Hi, I have attached 2 photos with this message (please ignore the red circle on the second photo, it's not relevant for this issue). The first photo is the bottom of the pipe. The second photo is the top of the pipe. I have this main water pipe inside my flat. It goes from the roof and down...
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    Gas pipe or water pipe?

    Hi Everyone We are currently renovating an old cottage and I have come across a pipe that partially sticks out of the wall. I am confident working with water pipes and was hoping to cut it back and cap it off before we plaster and put the skirting boards on. However it has occurred to me that it...
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    Hot Exposed Pipes to radiator

    hello I live in a student accommodation and have a radiator in my room with exposed pipes connected to it .The pipes are always hot even though the radiator is turned of so much so that they boil the room up. Is there a way to make the pipes cold ?
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    Fittings for new water feed

    Hello all. Having an extension built and part of that extension will have a utility room with washer, plus a separate WC and an outside tap. The old outside toilet used to stand where the attached picture was taken, with the water supply coming from a branch taken off the main water inlet to...
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    Bulky pipe under sink

    Hello everyone, We will be installing a new kitchen and would like to simplify somehow the piping under the sink (see attached pic for what we currently have). The brass pipe in the pic controls the water in the house and also an outdoor tap, but it's very bulky and takes up most of the space...
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    What paint to use for radiator copper pipe outside wall?

    What a good paint not peeling away with the heat for radiator copper pipe? i would need some white and maybe chrome for bathroom. Thanks
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    How to sink these pipes under floor ?

    Hi, I've got the old ends of pipes sticking up slightly from the floor from the old sink. It would be better if I can cut them and sink them down a bit but access is limited. Is there an easy way of doing this or shall I just find a trim to cover them? I may have to re use them if I get a...
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    Mains water pipe in slightly the wrong place

    Hi, I have my mains pipe coming into the side of my house. I am going to have the adjacent wall studded out and therefore want to hide the mains pipe behind it and put on a low profile stop tap. My question is that it is approx 10” further along the wall than needed. Is it ok to make a channel...
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    Please help! Reaching out to all plumbers..

    Hello, Firstly, if you’ve come this far, thank you! Today my family and I woke up to a few rather large wet patches in the ceiling of our kitchen and living room (both dripping slowly in to the rooms). I traced the leak up a floor in to our airing cupboard which has the boiler in. In here I...
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    Has this been carried out properly?

    I'm hoping some kind soul might be able to comment if this workmanship has been carried out properly? Situation is: previously an open vented system which has been converted to a sealed system (the benefits of which I'm still unclear on). As such, an expansion vessel was positioned in the...
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    Wet plaster in bathroom

    Hi, I've recently moved into an old council terraced house. There is a downstairs bathroom that once had a shower in, but was taken out but the previous owners. Near the toilet, there is a hole which seems to contain some piping that appears to lead a few inches out to an exterior wall. On...
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    L2 error/inaccessible frozen pipe?

    so it's been freezing cold and our boiler now has an L2 error and refuses to work. i assume this is because our condensation pipe has frozen. the problem is, i can't physically reach it because our boiler is in the loft and the condensation pipe runs outside the house (i.e. up near the roof and...
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    Radiator pipes question

    Hello all, new to this forum and looking for some advice (or if I should get someone in to do it) Looking to replace a single panel radiator with a Kudox type 22 double panel. The installation diagrams show the valves should be approx 85mm from the wall. The current lockshield is about half...
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    Leave 22mm or replace

    I've replaced my old radiators and rejigged where they sit in the rooms (two smaller spread apart rather than one huge). The existing system now has a 4m length of 22mm that feeds two radiators and just doesn't need to be that size. Would the system run better with the pipe reduced to 15mm or...
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    Drilled through a water pipe

    Hi all, I decided to renovate the kitchen this lockdown, it was going quite well until I wanted to put up the suspension rail for the base cabinets and accidentally drilled through a water pipe. I have shut off the water in the house and I have dug around it a little and can see that its not a...
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    Drain water from pipe closed at end

    I have a pipe that goes from my house, outside, and into a washing machine in the garage. The pipe is insulated but has frozen in the past. I though I would be smart and turn off the water from a valve in the house before the water goes outdoors. So I closed that valve and disconnected the...
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    Metric, imperial,

    Got an old stone house, other than getting a micrometer what clues give away metric or Imperial pipe. The copper looks really clean but it's been under the floor so that might mean nothing. House is like an onion, I really need to stop peeling, pulled a load of lead pipe or so at least I'll get...
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