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    Whole House Pump - Advice Needed Please

    Hi all, would appreciate anyone's thoughts with more experience of installing whole house pumps than me (1st one). All cold outlets are fed directly from the water mains (pressure hovers around 4 bars). I'm installing a 4.3 bar pump to pump all hot water outlets in the house only, thus...
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    New Build Cost of UFH (Plumbed Not Electric) Vs Typical Radiator System

    Hi all, We're hopefully about to complete on a 4 bed house today (105sq m over two floors). It's a new build at the early stages of the build, i.e. brickwork completed up to the first floor. I'm considering asking the builder to change the standard unvented cylinder for a twin coil one to...
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    Plumbers arrested over tax evasion

    Check this out! Plumbers arrested over tax issue - Checkatrade News
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    Plastic Drain Botch Job

    Hi all. Had the chance to go and do a quote today to relay a run of plastic drain which has been botched. Long story short, the guy who was working on the job died shortly after it was finished and before any issues became apparent. A run of plastic drain has been laid into an existing brick...
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    Low Level Baths

    Hi all. A disabled customer has asked me to quote for fitting a low-level bath. As the bath is around 345mm height with a depth of 480mm then I am guessing I need to be checking whether or not the existing drainage is going to be suitable. I take it that in a ground floor flat I need to quote...
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    Potterton Suprima Wiring

    My sparky is having probs wiring in this boiler. I don't do much wiring but it seems that there's a L, N and E three core which controls the pump from the boiler and a 4-core L, N, E and black wire (switched live) which I'm guessing controls the boiler from the switched lives on the motorised...
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    Rothenberger Electric Pipe Freezer

    I don't work for them I promise. I finally bought one of these today, 3 years after I started my business. What a fantastic tool. Saved around 3 hours of time today moving some radiator pipes. Froze the pipe in about 3 minutes and I was even able to solder within 30cm of it too. 2 hours...
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    Using a full-bore lever valve as a stopcock.

    Hi all. I did my unvented course today and asked the question about using a full-bore lever valve as a stopcock. The guy who owns the training centre was teaching us and he said that it's not illegal to fit full-bore lever valves in place of stopcocks now. The water in the riser main is...
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    Basin Wrench Design, Honest Feedback Needed

    Hi all, I've designed this basin wrench which has a patent pending on the idea (that means if it's great then no copying it :) ). Before I approach manufacturers etc I would really appreciate some honest feedback along the following lines. 1.) Would you buy the tool when you next need...
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    Unvented Competent Persons Scheme

    Hi all. I know NICEIC and Corgi run these but which one (from your experience) is the best one to join? With the annual prices these outfits charge it just seems like a license to print money for them. Someone is getting very rich!
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    Cracked Toilet Seat

    Hi all. Advice appreciated as I may soon be posting all the facts in this dispute on here for you all to see. A company who at present will remain nameless sold us a Doc-M WC and toilet seat. We have been through 4 seats now as they all keep cracking at the hinge. Our merchant has had their...
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    Unvented Hot Water Course

    Hi all. Doing my BPEC Unvented course/exam next Friday. The books are arriving early next week. Has anyone got any tips for passing first time? Is it a difficult course?
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    Can I interest any fellow plumbers in sponsoring our cycle?

    Hi all. A bit of a beg. Some friends and I are going to be cycling from Land's End to John'O'Groats this September and we're trying to raise as much cash as we possibly can for Cancer Research UK. I appreciate that I don't know any of you in real life (well apart from grahamgas) and times...
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    Plumbers Merchants

    Does anyone else suffer from rubbish service with their local merchants? Was about to pass them a £600 sale today on a designer radiator but they couldn't even be bothered to get back to me to let me know an order date. I'm finding less and less reasons to support my local merchant as time...
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    DIY devalues your home

    Agree with resolute. These reports are quite sweeping. I've seen examples of rubbish DIY by people wanting to save a few pennies and you feel like shaking them and saying '"Don't you realise you're just losing the pennies you saved and then some from your house price"? Equally, some people...
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    Commercial Work

    Hi all, I would appreciate some advice. I've been building my business up in the local domestic market over the last couple of years. I want to try and get in to smaller commercial work but have no idea how to go about breaking into the market. Is it as simple as just writing to owners...
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    Sealed System Install - Take 2

    Hi all. Myself and a gasfitter on these forums are off to look at a combi-boiler install tomorrow that I did last Christmas. All central heating pipework was pressure tested prior to fitting the boiler and passed a pressure test at 5 bars. Since the boiler has been installed the pressure...
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    Drainage Issue, Possible Durgo Valve Fault?

    Hi all, Going to a drainage job this PM. The customer has an upstairs bathroom and downstairs cloakroom all draining into a stack at the front of the house with a Durgo valve in the loft. Recently they say the upstairs toilet, basin, bath and downstairs basin are all backing up. The...
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    Blocked Drain?

    Just had a phone call from a customer today. When the neighbour empties a bath the water is coming into my customer's home through his kitchen sink/washing machine. This is leading me to the conclusion that a private sewer is nearly completely blocked somewhere downstream. Anyone else got...
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    A new idea for a plumbers merchant, I think.

    Hi folks, I'm purposefully not mentioning my website here as I don't want to be done for advertising but I would like some honest feedback on this idea. I've run a plumbing company of my own for a few years now and one thing that has always annoyed me is that I get the same prices at...
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