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    Thermostatic mixer shower

    Hi there, Looking to install a thermostatic mixer shower in a flat with night rate unvented cylinder. It's an almost like-for like replacement for a thermostatic bath fill/shower diverter which has a broken thermostatic cartridge. During the day, hot water temperatures can fall to 45°C, or...
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    Thermo-mechanical cylinder stats any good???

    Danfoss Randall RAVI - VMT 25/2 28mm Cylinder Valve For Gravity Primaries Those! Met potential customer the other day with zombie oil boiler running semi-gravity system. Modern cylinder, but complaint that water too hot. Measured outlet from cylinder at 65°C with open tap. No thermostatic...
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    New DIY "Plumber" needs advise for loft water tank supply nut and olive?!?

    Exactly, just as tap connector washers only work with tap type connector thingies.
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    I want to learn more about running heating systems on uncontrolled heat sources

    I have the basic NVQ2 level awareness of wood burning stoves and gravity systems, but sadly this is one of the C&G (Maskrey) Plumbing textbook sections that should have been used for lighting the fire. I could bore you with the specific situation with the bungalow, the existing woodburning...
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    Digital pumped shower mixer runs - good practice?

    Had to run pipework to digital shower in loft. Had it been my job, it would probably have all been 22mm copper, since I try to work to the nth degree, but this is a budget subcontract install so I'm just trying to do it half decently. Concerned I may have gone too far the other way, especially...
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    DIYer updating plumbing fittings in cloakroom toilet - Help needed

    Going back to the OP's question, if that's speedfit or similar pipe coming into the room (is it?) connected to copper above, I would buy some new speedfit isolators (or couplings) and continue the run in plastic right up to the taps and use speedfit tap connectors to go onto the tap threads. If...
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    DIYer updating plumbing fittings in cloakroom toilet - Help needed

    Not really. No one's given bad advice as far as I can see. The pipework coming into the room from the floor looks messy, but you can only work with what's there. You could solder onto the tails coming from the floor using strategic pipe bending to bring the rest of the pipe up to plumb, clip...
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    Back in the real world, do you flush or not?

    I have a job coming up with a local builder wants to subcontract me for some works to heating systems he comes across. Basic stuff: replace radiators, relocate radiators, add a new radiator type of thing. The nth degree would dictate drain down, do work, refill, possibly drain again, and...
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    Would you do a Level 3 now, in my position?

    I have just about completed my NVQ2 in plumbing and heating. I'm likely to finish my last install for the portfolio tomorrow. I am self-employed. Not being an apprentice, I managed this with a mixture of direct observation by the college of self-employed work, and some work-based recorder...
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    Would you REALLY always recommend running UFH constantly?

    Been adding UnderFloor Heating to my own house and it's running provisionally. Controls yet to be wired. Can't think of ideal system but this is the best I can think of myself: Since the UFH is auxiliary to a radiator (theoretically not enough output from UFH to hold its own in cold weather)...
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    Comparative heights of primary and cold water storage cisterns

    I have a job coming up in a house where the primary F&E is in the loft and has a tap pouring into the top of it (!) and also a combined feed and vent in 15mm. Am planning to fit FOV, add a 22mm vent, and an overflow. My concern is that the combined cold water storage and indirect-cylinder feed...
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    Old cookers and gas safe certificates

    A couple of years ago, my mother moved house and paid an RGI to move her existing ca. 1981 Solaire New World cooker into her new house (there was already a gas connexion and cooker point). Seeing as this cooker seems likely to outlive my MUCH newer cooker, I can't say I blame her. Now she is...
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    Bird can fly into chimney serving open-vented gas fire!

    Is it usually considered acceptable for an open-vented gas fire (by which I mean one which vents its exhaust gases up a chimney by natural draught) to have a terminal that will allow a bird into the chimney? Got a phone call from my mother yesterday. She's not going to be able to meet me...
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    Custom flush pipe - I can't use off the shelf!

    Hi there, I know this has been asked a zillion times, but has anyone here got experience of bending their own flush pipe? I'm fairly sure I can't use an off-the shelf 3 piece set because the WC pan is fitted so it faces outwards from a corner so is at 45° to the cistern and there is a need to...
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    Why are gas safe engineers reluctant to service my Netaheat Profile?

    I was thinking about the landlord bashing that went on in another thread re. the fact that the landlord had never had his boiler actually serviced. It occurred to me that I am similarly guilty. I still haven't found a house I wish to buy in Wales and my house in Essex is therefore rented out...
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    Diy outside tap

    I reckon I know who did that :)
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    Would you agree this valve is suitable for use as a stopcock?

    Pegler Yorkshire - Pegler Yorkshire Tee Ball Valve 15mm Blue | Ball Valves | NoLinkingToThis G2.8 in the WRAS guide to the regs says 'spherical type valves may also be used in all sizes' R2.8 in the WRAS guide to the regs says '[o]ther types of stopvalves and servicing valves may be used provided...
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    Any reason 1/2" Portsmouth (Part 1 ballcocks or FOV) are still sold at all?

    To cut a long story short, I started reading the the WRAS Water Regs book again: G16.1 d states that a G1/2 size valve (do they mean a 1/2" valve as opposed to, say, a 3/4" valve?) must be 'constructed so that the water shut-off level may be altered [...] without bending the float lever.' So...
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    Leaking tap connector callout

    Just had a call out to sort a leak under a washbasin. 1/2" tap connector (fibre) had almost split - replaced and all seems well. All copper - no flexis, and tap was fixed to basin correctly.:santa3: But for the life of me, I cannot understand WHY the tap connector had decided to split. It...
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    Iron rising main with left hand thread stopcock - where to buy new headgear???

    I was at a customer's house today and came across an old stopcock on an iron rising main. The main won't last for ever, but replacement is not afforable for customer at present. The head has been forced, thus damaging the spindle. It would be nice to be able to fit new headgear in this sort...
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