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  1. JCplumb

    Looking for a plumber in South Manchester

    Got a customer whos son has bought a house in Didsbury. Gainsborough bar shower is passing and there's a leak on the bath waste, from my conversation with him, it sounds like an in and out job. It's too far for me to go and sort out before mid January so do we have any members more local to him?
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    Mix and match RF reciever and thermostat?

    Hello guys and gals. My cousin called me out to have a look at her heating which isn't working. She has a Worcester combi and the hot water is fine. When we tried to program the RF stat it doesn't seem to be talking to the reciever and calling for heat. Even in manual it's doing nothing when...
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    New DIY "Plumber" needs advise for loft water tank supply nut and olive?!?

    Well done, looks a good job :) Yes, you were completely wrong to use an olive in a tap connector, olives go round 15mm pipe and definitely don't bridge the gap you'd have between the shank and tap connector. There's only a few mm of copper past the shoulder in a tap connector and I have no idea...
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    New DIY "Plumber" needs advise for loft water tank supply nut and olive?!?

    How is it possible to tighten a tap connector up to a valve with an olive where the fibre washer should be? Surely that's not even possible? You have 15mm copper pipe going into a solder ring tap connector, that then attaches to your threaded valve shank. The water tight seal is made using a...
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    Buzzing noise from boiler...

    Erm I don't think so madam...
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    IDEAL ISAR/ICOS PUMP 170990 BNIB RM61W for sale

    Evening all. Had an issue with my mums boiler and the gas reg chap I usually pass any gas work to had a look and asked me to buy the pump head and he'd fit it once it arrived. Ideal Isar, he said it's the one with the black plastic bleed screw, so I ordered it off Ebay and it turns out there's...
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    DIY Ensuthiastic

    Welcome aboard! Just don't ask any gas questions :)
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    Basin mixer, high cold pressure, 0.5 bar hot (gravity HWS)

    Got a customer who has called me in after an absolute nightmare with a cowboy builder and an ex-friend project managing her renovation. I feel really sorry for her, she was actually crying when explaining what had gone on when I first went round. Anyway, she has a basin mixer that she really...
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    pneumatically operated w.c. flush valve

    Hi chaps and chappesses. I have this flush valve in my loo at home. It worked for a couple of weeks, now I have to push the button in really slowly to get about a 1 in 10 chance of it flushing. It's as if the bellows are passing so are unable to push enough air down the tube to lift the valve...
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    Belfast sink?

    I'm changing a mixer tap tomorrow on a Belfast sink. I've fitted what was called a farmhouse sink before but it had a precut base to fix it to the wall and the taps were at the side. Any tips on removing the thing to get at the taps which are between it and the wall and the custard says the sink...
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    Boilers and non gas safe plumbers...

    Just had a call back to a job I did today, I put some TRVs on the radiators in a house. Turned boiler off, drained down, swapped old lockshields for TRVs, refilled, checked my work, turned boiler on and all working. 3 hours later I get a phonecall telling me the boiler's showing an F-5 fault...
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    DIY Garden Hose - Which approach is best?

    No there isn't.
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    Dual flow basin mixer?

    Anyone know of an inexpensive dual flow basin monobloc mixer? I can't seem to find one under about £60 :(
  14. JCplumb

    Washing machine drain out kit.

    Anyone used one? Got a job on Thursday where this would save me a lot of time if they're any good.
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    Replacement parts for Flavel gas cooker.

    As the title suggests, I need a bit for a Flavel Aspen gas cooker, don't worry job 38.11 isn't needed as it's nowt to do with the gas part. Just the oven door handle. The handle joins the oven door at 2 points, there's a screw that comes out from inside the door into each end of the handle...
  16. JCplumb

    zone valve stuck

    Evening gents. In a house I rent out, there's a system boiler that works fine but the heating comes on when 'water only' is selected. I guessed zone valve, so went to have a fiddle with it. After much fiddling I'm confident it's buggered, thing is I fitted this valve about 8 years ago and had...
  17. JCplumb

    6mm copper pipe repair ?

    Evening chaps, A customer of mine has put a nail through a 6mm heating pipe. It's in a notched joist that holds about 8 other pipes just before they all bend down into the manifold, the other direction goes under a laminate floor so not a lot of room to work in the spaghetti junction that I...
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    Dauntless Elite W.C. replacement syphon.

    Evening gents, Has anyone ever come across one of these? It's a horrible looking thing but I have been tasked with replacing the syphon on it, it's far from a standard syphon as the hole in the top will not take any other button than the one already there, the syphon works with a cantilever...
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    Hand wash basin in a chip shop?

    Hello chaps, I've got a job to fit a hand wash basin in a chippy near me. Just wondering if anyone knows the regs, or HSE rules about these? They want it a few inches from the main sink in a food prep area, there is one in the next room that they use and they have told me they won't ever use...
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    Flush valve for a one piece w.c.

    Hi chaps, as per the title of the thread - I'm looking for a replacement flush valve for a 1 piece toilet. The pan and cistern are one piece, so can only get to the flush hole from the top. Any ideas?
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