plumbing and heating

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone would be able to give some advice on how to move some copper pipes. My partner and I are currently renovating a house and we've decided to flip the direction of the stairs to give us more room upstairs. As we'll also be moving the stairs back slightly we...

Hello all, I'm new to this forum so thanks and foremost for your help. Apologies if this is not the right place or been covered by another post. I need some help / advice with a tap in the bathroom upstairs. There is no pressure that comes out of the tap, in fact the more you open the tap...

Hi all, currently at outset of general living room renorvation. My wife wants this rad moving or all pipe work covered. I must say looks a bodge job from previous owners. Radiator which I changed about 6 years back appears to be plumbed inline. Both pipes running under door threshold and...

Hi there I need some help I’m trying to fix a shower screen (the bath type) to a plasterboard wall with splash back but I haven’t got a clue what fixing to use, I was wondering if I could just silicone the bracket let it dry and then fit the shower screen but I just don’t trust it any...

Hi, So I was called out to a customers house today, they were complaining of no water to their bathroom cold taps, after some investigation I found a mouse lodged in the cold pipe that feeds the bathroom from the tank. I removed the mouse and found its head was missing presumably sucked further...

I’ve just moved into a house that has a seemingly very old boiler with sunvic programmer that I don’t have the manual for. Wondered if anyone could advise on how to use or where to get a manual? thanks

Hi, I'm trying to isolate my radiator in order to change a leaking bleed valve. The lockshield valve on the radiator is just spinning and spinning and not shutting off the water. In the photo below, it's the spindle that I have been trying to turn. Is there anything I can do other than...

Hi all, Firstly i want to thank you all for reading this, I'm pretty stuck so any help would be amazing. I currently have an Independent c24 combi boiler. This boiler has never had a thermostat fitted so had the original red cable connection, the boiler has only ever had the timer switch...

Had a new oil combi CH system installed a couple of months ago and as part of the system the plumber fitted an Adey MagnaClean Professional2 filter which has dripped ever since. He came to see it but couldn't find the problem which was pretty obvious since the pipes were hot and the drips were...

Hi all I'm looking to upgrade some regular old radiators ( 7 in total). The replacements are larger modern radiators. Two would be approximately 1600mm long by 600mm wide to hang on the wall. I've attached an image of old white radiator style and new radiator style (Grey) to give you idea of...

Sorry- yet another smart thermostat wiring question. I want to install a Drayton Wiser two channel system. I currently have a Honeywell wireless thermostat (connects to a R6660D) controlling my central heating. I have a Honeywell wired timer (ST9100c) controlling my hot water cylinder. I have...

Hi guys, my grandfather's heating system has been working away no problem for 30 years, a few weeks ago the ballcock in the feed and expansion tank stuck and the system began to run dry he noticed that the upstairs rads were not heating as they were empty obviously, he freed up the ballcock and...

I’m looking to simplify the miles of copper pipe under my kitchen sink - year’s worth of people tadging bits on. My question is this - I want to bring one cold feed up to my cold tap and put 2 tees (appliance valves) on that feed inside the cupboard under the sink: one for the washing machine...

Hi guys/gals I really need your help. It is now over 3 weeks I don't have hot water and I am having to boil water with the kettle for shower :-( Everything was working fine and all of a sadden everything shutdown and I reset the boiler now the boiler fires-up and I do get central heating but...

Hi there I hope you guys can help. My shower temperature is stuck at scolding! Which my wife doesn't seem to mind, but I find way too hot! We live in a hard water area and it's been in for around 12 years or so and it's therefore completely stuck. I'd love some help in identifying the make...

Hi, please see attached photos (blue: cold mains to boiler and kitchen after bathroom. Red: hot from boiler to bathroom. Yellow: gas to boiler. The other pipes are the radiator pipes that do run across under the pipes at the radiator ends - again too close to them) is this okay? I’m concerned...

Hi all, After a bit if advice if poss. I have an old open vent system in my house, and from a fair old bit of investigation I definitely think the pump is in the wrong place. It's straight after the boiler on the flow side, before the open vent. From my workings it looks like it should be...

Hi All, I'm a novice on plumbing but recently I've made changes to my property and now it has 12 radiator heating with 3 shower bathrooms. As suggeted I went with New more powerful Combi Boiler with 250l mega flow system to support 3 showers at some time (incase) but am struggling with another...

hi, we have an ecoTEC plus 831 and we’ve had issues with the heating staying on. When we came back from holiday the water pressure was low and I fixed this. The digital radio thermostat (Salus model RT300RF) was also out of batteries and we replaced these. No settings were changed. The heating...

Hi All, We're in an absolute mess. Recently we've had a plumber come out to fix our heating and hot water. Both had stopped working. The first time he came, he changed a pump. This fixed the hot water - but the heating wasn't working. About a month later, he installed two new valves (Drayton &...