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    Towel warmer only on Electric .

    Hi Guys , I am putting a couple of extra Rads in a custs house . Plus a towel Rad . The towel rad is only going to be heated with an elecrtric element and not connected to the central heating . I have fixed the Towel rad with element onto shower room wall , but I am not sure wether to...
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    Softened Water thru Loop ?

    Hi Guys , I have noticed that Worcester Bosch recomend that you dont fill a Sealed system from a softened water supply . I didnt know this and have just piped up an extension and to a new Oil system boiler . The cold mains to Boiler location is going to be softened water , from a proper...
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    Pipes in Kingspan

    Hi Guys , Could do with advice please . We rarely do new build , but we have been asked to Quote for all Plumbing in a detached 3 bed house . U/F in screed ground floor and Rads on !st floor . In Kitchen they want an Island Unit with Sink , so I need to get 2x15mm pipes to sink and 1 x 40mm...
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    Leaking Pipework under floor

    Morning all , I could do with some advice please . We were asked to find a leak in a sealed system . Big 2 story house . Oil boiler , about 24 radiators . Has been gradually loosing pressure for about a year . We went there yesterday and isolated the top floor , and dug down and...
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    Radiators with only one Valve

    Hello All , I had a call from a Lady ,she has trouble with cold patchs at bottom of rads so I went around to see her . Oil boiler , 7 rads in 3 bedroom house , open vented . Rads are quite old , look like Stelrad with no convectors . any way the funny thing is that their is...
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    Solar Heating Design & Installation Guide

    Good day everyone , can anyone tell me where to get a copy of the above guide please ? I have tried the CIPHE as it is their publication and I am a member , but they dont have any copies as it is being Updated . I think it was published first in 2007 . Or an...
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    Lime on copper

    Hi everyone , Does anyone know how corrosive Lime is to copper ? I have been looking at a job recently where the customer has rendered the wall themselves with a Lime and thread ( or something else ) mix . about 1" thick . They have put it over a vertical 15 mm copper...
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    Back boiler Powerflush

    Hi Guys , Would welcome some advice with this one please . Situation , 3 bed semi with Parkray inset fire with back boiler , does Cylinder and 11 rads . In rented house , Landlord says it used to heat everything up fine ( a few years ago ) . Been empty for a while , New...
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    Column Radiators , Steel not Cast Iron .

    Hi All , I need some steel column radiators for a customer . Only 3 though . Discounted Heating have them , from about 7 different manufacturers . For 1.7 KW they vary from £ 290 - £490 . ouch... Does anyone know if they are cheaper elsewhere please ...
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    Gravity Circulation not working

    Hi Guys , Had a call from a customer whos oil boiler is not heating the cylinder properly and i dont know why so i would be glad of any advice . Oil boiler with gravity 28mm primary to cyl and pumped to radiators . The boiler is working fine and rads work ok if needed...
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    Boxed in Radiators

    Hi All , I am working out the size of Rads needed in a house ( new system ) and the customers would like the ground floor rads boxed in with those ventilated wooden thingies . Does anyone know if they stop some of the heat comeng out ? If so I would need to oversize the...
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    Efficiency difference between Sealed system and Open vented

    Does anyone know the difference in efficiency in percentage terms between a Sealed system and an open vented one please . Or can direct me to the info on the internet . I know that a sealed system IS more efficient than an open vented one because water under pressure heats up quicker ...
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    Fitting radiators to Warm air system

    Hi there , I need a bit of advice please . I have been asked to fit three radiators to a bungalow . It has an oil boiler and right next to it is a housing with a big fan that blows air over a radiator . ther is an ordinary circulating pump taking hot water from the boiler...
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    Best way to protect pipework buried in Garden , Boiler to House

    Hi all , I am an Oftec reg engineer , but have not come across this prob before . A customer would like an external oil fired combi boiler fitting about 6 metres from the house . Near to a brick out house . ( it is not possible to have it nearer ) I would like to use 22mm plastic pipe and bury...
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    Cylinder Leak at backnut

    Hello Fellas , Some advice please . I fitted a new indirect cyl to a customers system about 3 months ago and it is now leaking very slowly from around the top coil fitting . Not the one I put on , but from behind the backnut around the thread . I have searched previouse posts and it...
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    Testing for a one pipe system

    I could do with some advice please , A customer has just bought an old bungalow and he has drained C/H system, taken out old S/F stove and taken out the seven old rads . He wants me to quote to fit new Stove and rads . It may be a one pipe system but I am not sure . 2 , I think 22mm pipes...
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    Underground leak in 1/4 mile pipe

    Hi all , There is an elderly lady that lives in an isolated house down a track that is about 1/4 mile long from the public road . It is served by an old iron pipe i,m told . During last winter it was frozen up for about 10 days , anyway she says that her last water bill was very high so she...
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    2 wood burners and Thermal store

    We are used to doing Link - Up systems between 1 wood burner and an oil boiler into a Thermal store ,but not 2 woodburners so I could do with some advice please . If I join the 2 flows into 1 pipe just before they enter the Store and I split the return just after it comes out of the...
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    Pay back time for Solar Thermal

    We do general Plumbing plus Oil and solid fuel installations and were wondering wether to get into Solar Thermal installing . There have been other posts on this subject , but I am asking from the point of view of selling a system to the average customer . If we assume that...
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    Stuck Radiator Air Vents .

    I could do with some advice please . We had to drain a heating system today that has about 17 rads in it . About 3 of the rads had air vents that were stuck fast . I tryed different keys but none of them worked . As the vents are in the back i used a mirror to check and some had rounded...
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