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    Want to install secondary hot return - need advice please

    Hello everyone! I'm finally getting to do my own bathroom renovation (spend most of my time doing everyone else's). The bathroom is on the ground floor and the hot water cylinder is at the other side of the house on the first floor. The house isn't huge but I'm sick of running the hot tap and...
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    Hand made copper tap - swivel action?

    Hi everyone! I've just made a kitchen tap for a customer. She's delighted with it as it is but its wrecking my head that it doesn't swivel. I can't imagine a fitting that I could have soldered in that would give a water tight swivel action and equally as important, keeps that all copper look...
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    Need urgent help - towel rail on single pipe system

    Hi all! im doing a bathroom refit and the heating is a single pipe system. They've a 3 zone set up - cylinder, downstairs and upstairs. Wireless controls and a new system boiler was fitted about a year ago. Mall I want to do is add a towel rail in the bathroom But the rad in there has a funky...
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    Need help - picking shower for customer

    Hi everyone! Right, I'm putting together a large luxury en-suite design to build for a customer. It's converting a 1st floor bedroom into a large en-suite There's a few nice features going in (wetroom tray, single glass pane, etc.) and have suggested putting in a digital shower for the wow...
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    shower pump eraticly on and off - kind of!

    Hi all! I've been plumbing (domestic) on and off for about 5 years now so I've a lot still to learn. I was called out to a woman's house the other day with a problem I'm not sure I can fix. As with most things, I'll be fully confident I can fix it once I get it diagnosed... So, She has two...
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    bathroom refit. what hot cylinder set up and what shower

    Hi all! I'm about to do a bathroom re-fit in a bungalow. The bathroom is at the far end of the house, next to the garage. It is a large en-suite to a guest room. I'll be replacing the bath with a shower and getting rid of the current electric shower and replace it with a Mira Vigour...
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    bath mixer/shower head combo question

    Hi all, You know those taps with the shower head and hose attached that has the knob you pull up to get water to go to the shower head? Well can those be serviced? My uncle says the problem with his is that when you pull the knob up (water flowing) only about 60% goes up to the shower head and...
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    Baxi system boiler is begining to not work! Intermitently...

    Hi all! I've a Baxi system boiler feeding my DHW and CH. It's a sealed system. two channel programmer, valves, etc. Essentially an S-plan set-up. I came in the other day and there was no hot water. It is timed for an hr a day through the programmer so there is always a tank of hot water. So...
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    plastic or copper pipe?

    Hi all. Is there any truth in the notion that plastic pipe (qualpex) is better protected from frozen pipes splitting in that, well, they don't split. Like copper would. Adam
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