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Hi all I am trying to fit out a room for doing some pottery and struggling a little on the sink trap to ensure that we aren't putting clay down the waste pipe. There is a popular solution in the USA which can be found Gleco Trap (gt43) but naturally comes with a USA standard of...

Hi, I'm a newbie to this forum so hoping someone can help with this as sick of getting up at 5am to a cold house!!! i have just moved into a new house and the boiler is a Worcester Greenstar 27cdi - boiler works fine when using the on/off control however when I tried to use the timer...

Rate lads, I need a quick question answering if you would do me the honour. I have a boiler. Boiler has a plastic pipe coming out of it. Water drips out of it. Usually when it's on. Water seems cold. I'm assuming this is just catching condensation or something from inside the boiler or...

We have a Worcester Bosch Danesmoor 20/25 oil boiler that's quite old but has been OK for the 6 years we have lived here. It has on occasion gone into idle mode which I have sorted by pressing the solenoid. However when I tried to turn on the heating a few weeks ago it just locked out after a...

ID'd a boiler today and capped it off with the customer's permission. Leaking primary HEX on a condensing boiler. Large leak of CH water and condensate from the burner box out into the airbox on a Potterton Promax HE heat only boiler on an open vented system. Reason for ID was the leak was...

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Evening chaps. I hope you guys are all doing well. I have been doing some bathrooms and have decided to tackle the tiling myself as I have had enough of having to rely on others to be available on time and to not damage any stuff. Sods law I drop a tile onto the new acrylic bath I installed hey...

Over the last few weeks I noticed a small drip from the hot water handle where it meets the body. Quick google showed it used quarter-turn cartridges and this needed replacing. Today I decided to tackle it and am regretting it since I started. Easy enough to remove the screw covers, the screws...

Been to look at a job but have never seen one of the black things, any help would be great. Thanks in advance

To move this toilet 2 inches to the right based on the the pan connector at the back. I am not that sure but another plumber said it is. Cheers chaps. Oh o e more thing, what bath panels are people fitting? I need a nice one like would but has plastic coating on the front. Is there...

Hi guys I am Rob and new on this forum, hope someone can shed some light on my very strange issue. Thanks in advance to all the replies. I seem to us around 6 to 7 cubic meters per month. But in October that doubled to nearly 16 cubic meters. The funny thing is I went on holidays from the...

Can anyone tell me if this thing is (calling for heat ) boilers turn on with hand mode room stat wired out (calling) Instructions are as toffee as normal

Is this the TF1?? Reason is that the replacement rubbers are needed and it looks the exact as all the rubber seals are well perished and Coul get the rubbers from b&q wickes, Homebase anywhere today.

I have a halstead finest gold really old I know. I have had a problem last winter it occasionally did start for hot water completely. This did not cause a problem. It was alright during the summer but has now started and got worse quickly. I have replaced the diaphram. The burner gets demand...

hi, we have a Vaillant boiler that was fitted a few years back, it's always done this since fitted but plumber insists is us and not the boiler! Problem is the heating, even when set it to timed only it fires up when it feels like it, this results in a tropical rainforest at 3am or the thing...

You see crowd enjoying themselves with a pint. If that was football they'd all be fighting.

Hi all, So I have a problem with my ball valve so my cold water tank is overflowing. Probably a knackered washer, but that's a different story. The odd thing is that when looking in the tank I found something hooked into the insulation strapping and floating inside. it looks ceramic with...