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Hi, I am looking at putting in a new system where I raise the cwsc in the loft, put the cylinder in there and use a whole house pump to pump 2 bathrooms but not the toilets. Would like it to be as quiet as possible. Any recommendations? Looking at a couple of big shower heads in this and a bath...

I need a reliable plumber to carry out the following work: Move and replace a hot water cylinder. The cylinder to be replaced with a mega flo or similar. Modify central heating fitting an solan system to control CH & hot water independently. Current system also has a back boiler. This work is...

Hi just curious in what’s involved in house bashing on site. Is it 1 plumber to one house and like any normal new build it’s gets first fixed then when other trades been in you go back and do the 2nd fix. Only asking as I’ve been offered a job on site house bashing on price work. Just seeing if...

Recently moved house and I have a ideal logic 24 combi boiler, it fires up perfectly fine, but when the central heating gets up to temperature it makes a whining noise which can be heard inside but is very loud from the flue terminal. It only lasts maybe 20 seconds or so and comes and goes...

A bit of background...house was built in 2000. Fitted with screw turn style taps, and washing appliances as new. During our time here, improvements have been made to the house, but these improvements have caused banging issues. The first was the washing machine when stopping water flowing in...

Hi there, New to the forums so hope this is the right place to post! We've currently got a (presumably) fairly standard hot water setup = cold water tank in the loft, hot water tank in ground floor cupboard. It currently has a hot water supply off the top of the tank that runs upstairs to the...

Hi everyone, just to say this is my first post, I'm not a professional but have had a lot of DIY experience over the years and installed a couple of systems in my time in my houses through the years. So I'm well aware when I'm out of my depth! My problem is that I'm on my third motorised valve...

Hi, Have recently been asked to price up a job. The client has bought the house and plans to split it into 3 separate dwellings as such. (Plans below) 1 - For herself (marked in green) 2 - For her mother (marked in red) 3 - For Airb'n'b (marked in blue) The green section will have a kitchen...

Hi, Have recently been asked to price up a job. The client has bought the house and plans to split it into 3 separate dwellings as such. (Plans below) 1 - For herself (marked in green) 2 - For her mother (marked in red) 3 - For Airb'n'b (marked in blue) The green section will have a kitchen...

Hi, Finding this site really usefull but would like to hear peoples experience with the installation and merits of retrofit underfloor heating. I live in a 2 bed semi detached built in approx 1996. I want to fit a low profile wet UFH system to the whole of the downstairs (approx 20 sq/m). I am...

Good Evening, Looking for some advice please... We recently replaced the central heating system in my late grandmothers house with a Potterton Titanium 35kw Combi and Nest 3rd Gen thermostat. New boiler is in the garage. A few weeks ago, the heating came on full whack - despite turning...

Hi, we are going down under for 3 months in January and have been taking advice on what to do to avoid frozen water pipes etc. Trouble is we have had two conflicting views! I should also say that our house insurers have no specific requirements relating to water/heating in these circumstances...

Any reason why this cold water expansion vessel would be found in a domestic house it's massive

Just need a quick advice if anyone can help. This afternoon I felt as if I smelt a gas so called national grid if they could help with gas leaks as cadent company recently did some gas works on our road. They sent the engineer out from cadent, he checked with some instrument all through the...

Hi, Please forgive my lack of experience. I am a relatively new homeowner to a fairly old semi-detached property. For the last two months, we have had a HORRIBLE smell of what smells like raw sewage to me that comes and goes, on and off but getting worse on the ground floor of our property...

Hi All, I have recently moved into a 4 bed house (standard terraced Victorian property with a loft conversion in the Kingston area). There are two showers - one in the loft and one on the first floor and radiators in each room. There is a glow worm boiler in the kitchen (pic 6) which seems to...

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of replacing my ageing potterton conventional boiler with a combi. We've had a couple of quotes but there's one company in particular who we're thinking of hiring to do the job. We have a 4 bedroom house with a single bathroom and 11 radiators. This...

Hi everyone, Im a frustrated new build home buyer who wish I never gave in to my missis and bought an older property! Im hoping someone can offer me some advice. We have a danfoss thermostat system fitted to an ideal combi boiler. Our problem is that when we turn the downstairs heating on...

Hi! :) I'm on the hunt for a house and one of them which looks incredibly promising has a solar installation - I don't know a whole lot about these so I was hoping to get some advice on 'best practices' with solar panels. I'm also wondering how putting power back into the grid works - does it...

Here's the problem: Central heating (wet underfloor) is fine. Hot water comes out of any tap/shower for 60 seconds, then cold. This happened suddenly, was working fine before that. Boiler working OK. Pipes within a couple of metres of unvented cylinder are hot. Pressure gauge to cylinder is...