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Morning All, I'm looking for a bit of advice on setting up and controlling a central heating system that has two zones. In my house I have one zone for the main heating for the house and another zone for the under floor heating in the conservatory. Both are individually controlled by either a...

Hi guys, so were refurbing our customers bed room and on suite bathroom , they have mains cold at all cold outlets and gravity hot water fed by a fortic combination cylinder in the loft, they originally wanted a mains fed electric shower over there bath which would of been fine but our sparky is...

Hi all. I'm mid way through updating a 20 year old heating system replacing rads and pipes from micro ore to plastic. Large house so set up two 22mm arterial branches feeding upstairs and downstairs circuit. The idea is to connect both 22mm circuits via a 3 way moterisied valve and operate...

Hi all! First post and extreme plumbing noob. I'm looking for suggestions into what I should do. Currently, I have a system boiler connected to a vented hot water cylinder etc. I would like to remove the vented cylinder to free up space and was looking into the unvented types - Megaflo etc...

Hi all, could anyone tell which ports to fit a tigerloop on Riello 40 oil pump and do i need to prime and how to prime. Diagrams welcome, Thanks

Afternoon all. I have a theoretical issue and wondered if it would work. I have a Rayburn burning wood and anthracite, gravity feeding a hot water cylinder then there is a pump that kicks in to circulate water to the radiators (4 of them upstairs). These can barely handle the amount of heat that...

Hi guys, Recently moved into our house (old 50s police house,4 bed) Been slowly working our way through the previous owners bodge work throughout the house. Now trying to make heads or tails of he heating system.. The house was extended about 10 or 15 years ago and I think the setup is a...

Ok so we have a student halls style kitchen with two separate oven units. Oven 1 on the left cuts out apparently randomly, quite frequently. This oven was replaced but the problem continues. Gas comes in and goes past oven 2 first. Students have suggested that changes to oven 2 might be causing...

Hi Can anyone recommend a good central heating controller that I can use to control my 3 separate 'zones?' as such? Which are: -UFH on ground floor level -Upstairs radiators -Indirect coil for hot water tank. My hole Central heating system has at least 4 pumps, one on the flow...

Hey everyone, Had some work done to convert our hot water system to pressurised one. Well the chap installed a new 2 port valve and kept the original 3 port mid position valve in. To me that is a pointless thing to do as to me as surely its two valves in series to one another? The...

I hope you can help. I am not a plumber and have very limited knowledge of central heating. I have the above boiler and the mechanical programmer has failed (I swapped this about 3 years ago as the previous one also failed). The boiler provides hot water where needed and also provides...

What do you guys reckon is best heating pipe setup out of the choice of, The usual 22mm from boiler for bulk of circuit and reduce down to 15 mm Or 22mm from boiler to manifold then reduce to 10mm to radiators?

have a quote of £1250 to: Remove existing cylinder Alter pipework from boiler to new cylinder Reroute cold main to cyl position Supply&fit rm 250ltr pressurised cyl Fully pump heating system Supply&fit wireless heating controls Reroute bathroom rad pipework into bedroom rad current setup...

Hello i have a system already installed, which I have been having problems with for a few years now - air in system - I have put a thread about it in the central heating forum - see trackback for info. is anyone on here happy to come and set this up correctly for me and advise me if...

Looking at buying a 3 bed house that needs a fair bit of work. Its ex-council but fairly good sized lounge 4.72m x 3.63m dining room 2.79m x 2.24m kitchen 5.53m x 5.24m bedrooms 3.66m x 3.63m 3.66m x 3.23m and 3m x 2.34m Currently has an old vented cylinder in bedroom cwst and f&e in loft with...

Hi, I came across a strange tank setup the other day which I had never seen before, I am interested to know how it works. Basically it was 2 storage tanks of equal size next to each other in attic. 15mm cold feed to tank 1, cold down service out from bottom of tank 1 to job, with a branch off...

I have recently bought a 4 bedroom house that needs updating and want to sort out the basics before doing any more decorating. It currently has an Ideal Mexico floor standing boiler with a cold water tank in the loft and a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard. The water pressure when...

Hi all, First post here just looking for help or a link to setting up an oil fired condensing boiler. What is the ideal temperature for flow and return,is it 70/50, 75/55 and also what should the drop across the rads be? Should it be 12c or 20c. Thanks for any help

Is there something wrong with this underfloor heating setup? I could not get it to flow through the system, there was water in the system but the gauge did not show any pressure (0 litre/min) the thermostat, programer, i.e. was all on, the pump is running

Hello from a newbie - we're renovating a detached bungalow (70 sq m), not on gas, and oil/LPG both undesirable/impractical. The plan is underfloor heating with an Ecodan air source heat pump, and a thermal store which will eventually have solar thermal added - also keeping options open and will...