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    Ball valve adjustment methods and/or tools?

    Typical scenario -- you need to lower (or raise) the water level in the cold water tank in the loft. If the ball valve feeding the tank has the very common straight brass arm to which the float is attached (with no adjusting screw), this means bending the brass arm a bit to get the ball a bit...
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    New Pipe Bending Marking Up Tool

    There's a novel tool being demo'd on You Tube, for marking up 15mm copper pipes for bending in a hand bender. It might be useful for inexperienced or infrequent pipe benders :icon9:, or for those who just aren't so good at accurate bending 'by eye'. :wacko: Naturally all you dab-handed...
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    To DIY or not to DIY?

    Ha ha! Very good point about the cooking! I always encourage my customers to have a go themselves at simple jobs if they're keen and seem up to it, e.g. changing a tap washer, adjusting a WC ball valve, etc. They really appreciate the tips I give them, and I know that if they cock it up (which...
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    Pump Runs Mysteriously!

    My friend's loft conversion has a pumped water system. For the last 6 months the pump has been starting for no apparent reason about once every 15 -20 minutes, running for about 30 seconds, then stopping! Other, possibly connected, problems are that sometimes the water supply to the loft is...
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    Drop valves versus syphon valves

    I reckon the relatively new 'drop valve' mechanisms are a backwards step in design, compared to the well-proven syphon-type flush mechanisms! I understand their popularity -- you press a neat 'modern-looking' button or dual button with your little pinkie to activate the flush, as if you were...
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    main incomer water pump

    You can boost the pressure by interposing a 'break-tank' between mains supply and pump. This way you are not pumping mains water, but the water in a tank that is being filled from the mains via an air gap. Maybe this is what markfxy's 'grundfoss home booster system' does?
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    stop water

    Sounds like your main stopcock isn't shutting off fully -- a very common problem with rarely-used valves! You can shut off the mains water using the outside water-board stopcock, and you should then have the inside stopcock replaced as soon as possible
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    HELP! - WARM/HOT water coming from the COLD tap?

    Yes... Very weird! Check your cold water tank (in loft?) if your system has one. Could be that it is empty due to a seized ball valve on the supply into the tank. This would dry up all taps that are supplied from this tank. If your hot water cylinder (if you have one!) is also supplied from...
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    Water softeners

    Homebase sell them, and so do Screwfix (NoLinkingToThis - Where the Trade Buys). There are several different designs available, with either annually replaceable cartridges (the ones I always fit) or refills of crystals. Google will help track them down.
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    Water softeners

    Let's get rid of some confusions here! Electrical 'descalers' are not water softeners -- they do not remove anything from the water, they just 'condition' it so that (in theory) scale does not form and stick to metal surfaces inside water heaters. The conditioned water is still 'hard' and...
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    : How can you increase the Water Pressure ?

    Use a pump. Raise the storage tank level. If it's low pressure hot water supplying a shower, use a venturi shower to boost the hw pressure/flow.
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    water heater

    Unvented water heaters must only be fitted by qualified people! The various safety devices all work together to prevent a nasty and possibly lethal explosion if things go wrong. The units must also be maintained annually for the same reason. By all means read up on how they work, but please...
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    No Hot Water

    How is the hot water generated? Is it stored in a separate hot water cylinder, supplied from a cold water cistern above, and heated directly or indirectly by pipes from the boiler? Or is it a combi-boiler that generates hot water instantaneously, with no stored hot water? Or is the hot water...
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    If i live in a hard water area what is the cheapest way of getting around the problem

    Re: If i live in a hard water area what is the cheapest way of getting around the pro Fit an element designed for hard/aggressive water. I believe it's called an 'Inconel' element, and is only slightly dearer than the regular element. And/or fit a water conditioner in the feed pipe to the hot...
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