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I have recently moved house and would like to move a radiator from a side wall, to one below the window as is more pleasing to the eye. I understand why it was not placed under the window, as my house is old and has concrete flooring so would be difficult when it comes to the pipework...

We live in a house that was extended in 1986, we arrived in 1991, and only now realise that there is no obvious way to drain the original downstairs radiators. There are two drain cocks fitted on pipework drops that drain the upstairs/extension end of the house only. I suspect the lady of the...

I have three problems but will post separately. Drained system yesterday and am left with a leaky drain cock. 400 ml in 16 hours so need to fix. The pipework this one is attached to is boxed in, as you can see from photo. I am not familiar with the innards of drain cocks but anyway I will have...

Hi, I moved into a house with a Trianco Maxi Aztec wet electric combi boiler. The system is too expensive for us to run, so we are removing in 3/4 weeks. Aside from being too expensive, it is not running correctly... We have to call for hot water about 25 minutes prior to use (this is not a...

Our upstairs towel radiator keeps filling with air at the top. We had a new system boiler, new tank and new pipework fitted in October. The new tank is in the garage which is underneath the house and the new boiler is in the kitchen at ground floor level. We also had underfloor heating installed...

Air keeps collecting in our upstairs bathroom towel radiator. Do we have a leak or what could be the cause please? We had a new system boiler and tank installed and all new pipework. The 3 towel radiators are on a separate system to the radiators in the other rooms. The tank is in the garage...

Hi all - would be really grateful for any advice on an issue I'm having with a macerator. It is connected to a sink, shower and washing machine and works fine at draining the sink and washing machine but the shower doesn't seem to activate the pump and so water just sits in the shower tray and...

Hello! I would like to use this electric descaler to soften both the hot and cold water in the house. I was thinking I needed to purchase 2 of these, one for the cold pipe into combi boiler, one for cold pipe just after main stopcock from mains. Is my thinking correct? Thank you in advance.

So our water supply comes in through the cellar and then splits in two to feed the kitchen/boiler and bathroom respectively. We just had the plumbers in to re-site the pipework before we do a cellar conversion. The plumbers have done a great job but one decision makes me wonder. The have used...

Hello, Can anybody please advise. For months now our old Ideal Mini HE C24 (combi boiler) has had pressure problems. It won't stay above 1 bar. Occasionally I top it up, to above one bar, twice in a day, other times if I am happy to leave it about a 1/3 of a bar it won't complain for a week...

I went in to fit a small wall hung basin today and had a devil of a job trying to keep it tight to the wall along the top edge. I’ve done a couple of wall hung basins before but never had one where the fixing points were right at the bottom. It was supplied with 2 wall anchors which I installed...

ON MONDAY THIS WEEK 14/02/22 MY IMMERSION HEATER WAS REPLACED,BUT SINCE THEN MY HOT WATER PRESSURE IS VIRTUALLY NON EXSISTANT. I CONTACTED THE PLUMBER TO COME BACK ONLY TO FIND OUT HE WAS AT THE AIRPORT WAITING FOR HIS HOLIDAY FLIGHT {JUST MY LUCK} ANY IDEA WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED,I CAN'T...

Hi All, Having a problem whereby we aren't getting any water from our taps except the cold water from the kitchen which is working fine. Going to get a plumber round to look, but any idea on what the likely cause is? My assumption is that there is a problem with the tank in the loft and I...

I’m hoping someone can help me. I’ve had a bathroom installed, and the whole process has been a nightmare. The plumber has now disappeared, and left things half finished. Some stuff I can sort (toilet and towel rail not actually being secured to the floor, bath not sealed around, leaking bath...

Hi, I own a Valient ecoTec boiler combi boiler which is located in the loft. I am losing water pressure daily but am at loss as to what is causing it. During the day, when I pressurise my system to 1.5 bars, it runs for 8 hours before losing, any pressure. In the evening, once I pressurise...

Having just moved into a property and discovering the central heating not functioning, after 3 months we eventually was able to get the property management to have one of their heating engineers attend. He was literally here 10mins and in the loft space for 2mins, where he stated he discovered...

Hi there, Boiler is making strange rumbling noise when HW only. Doesn't make the noise with CH only or CH + HW on. Is a Y plan system. Have checked the magnacleanse/filter and all is clear. Boiler has been recently serviced and burner gasket was replaced but I'm assuming that doesn't wouldn't...

I'm thinking about replacing a radiator or two. This will almost certainly require some soldering, although not much. As a bit of a novice, but not a complete and utter idiot, I was planning to use Yorkshire fittings (and not only because my wife is from Yorkshire, although that helps!) and a...

Hi, Moved in to 1980s bungalow in the last year. Doing renovations and manging things myself (I'm a qualified sparky -- clueless about plumbing until recently!)... New bathroom with all new domestic plumbing going in. Cylinder position is changing and new cylinder going in. Need to switch from...

Hi. I am the owner of a flat in a converted house that has two other flats: we are all leaseholders or them same freeholder, I am the flat in the middle. We have one water main supply feed that comes into our house which is then split into the 3 flats. I am having my bathroom renovated and the...