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    Chasing gas leaks - what do you do

    Well, i dont know if i am unlucky but its happening too often. Serviced boiler in cellar of a large old building on Saturday. Incoming enters cellar below ground but head height in cellar, straight into meter, a couple of meters of steel pipe and into boiler, shortest simplest run ever. No...
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    Valve confusion

    Very old system, 3 boilers in a cellar, steel pipework 2 inch, 3 inch out of the cellar to a large commercial lodge. No info about what zones do what but some old markings on the return pipes to give a clue. client reported one area is getting too hot and when she switches it off (using a light...
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    Lead pipes connecting to 22mm copper

    OK I have so far managed to avoid or replace lead pipes, but not this job. Any recommendation for fitting to go from lead OD 25mm to 28mm - all three pipes have a different OD, lol to 22mm copper ? many thanks
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    Implications with having two gas supplies in one building

    Just starting on a project that involves installing a new gas supply U40 2 inch job but the client already has a very old u16 supply which is piped from a remote meter box and underground steel pipe. The pipework cannot deal with the increase in demand required (quite frankly its not really up...
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    Anyone successfully unblocked a gas valve

    Got called out to boiler flame outs, old Osprey, 43KW, what was happening was the pilot would hold but when the main valve kicked in pilot would flame out. Suspected gas pressure so put meter on inlet 3.9mbar... ha. Boilers either side were getting good pressure to thought WTF theres only a...
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    Hot water flow is poor want to improve it

    Hi guys, be gentle as although i am GSR, i am not a plumber. Ok this is my house. The kitchen hot tap has always been disappointing as its flow is rubbish and hot water takes ages to come through. Its vented cyl located ground floor, kitchen is on first floor and cold tank is above ceiling of...
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    Condensate Piping decisions

    Hi guys, am changing out a Imax W60 for a vaillant ecotec 65 and as i got to the existing condensate i noticed it had been run using push fit waste. Now i have always used solvent weld pipes for this so pondering what to do. The existing pipe goes through the concrete floor, then under block...
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    Is this possible with a combi ?

    Hi guys, I have a job going on in a factory which has an old oil fired boiler, gravity fed radiators only, i.e. no hot water. I am scrapping the oil fired boiler and installing a combi on NG, however the clients priority is hot water and I am relocating the boiler so to get them up and running...
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    Ideal Imax W60 - repair bill eeeekkkk

    Hi guys, just a bit of feedback required before I ring Ideal. Boiler 8 years old, 4 months ago I have replaced the whole flue because the inner aluminium tube had corroded through on all sections including the tube inside the boiler casing. Cost was eye watering. Now got called out and a...
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    Best 2 port 22mm zone valves normally closed

    So heres the story, my own boiler was replaced a year ago. All 4 zone valves were replaced at my suggestion..... for reliability reasons (they were 20 years old) - Now the motor has conked out on one of the new ones in 15 months. So before some random stuff gets put in - I want a 20 year life...
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    Hi Gas guys

    Hi everyone, very recently got my own gas ticket, my business does electrics, air con and now Gas for a fixed set of comm and industrial clients I have. Anyway, was doing an electrical report, dreaming my dreamy dreams when I came across this lot.. capping that lot was my first job in my own...
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    New Bathroom - ideas help

    Hi guys, I am treating mini bacon sandwich (daughter) to a new bathroom (shower room really) in our house. I work with a bathroom fitter so he is going to do all the art work etc but I have a question over heating of the room. Currently its a radiator on microbore and I recon I can get to the...
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