flats

Hi, currently running a new gas pipe into a new build set of flats, gas pipe into the flat to the boiler will be in 22mm , the ECV inside the flat is fine to get in 22mm. But am finding it hard to find the test point fitting in 22mm, also I have read this has to be installed within 300mm of the...

Hi, I'm after some advice from you guys. Basically I have been drafted into a job as the client has been let down by the plumbers on site. The job consists of an old nursing home which is being refurbished into 5 flats. No heating, only hot and cold supplies to kitchen, bathroom and ensuite in...

Hey chaps, need a bit of advice. I have just been to look at a job where the client wants 4 boilers for 4 two bedroom flats. All with one bathroom. They do not want top of the range boilers. I know you usually check water pressure and flow when installing a combi but do you think I could just...

Hi I am having my office converted to two flats and am having unvented cyilinders fitted. The plumber is not gas safe registered but has the relevant qualification for fitting the cylinders. What I would like to know will the cylinders need regestering with building control even though the plans...

We live in a modern-ish block of flats. We want to remodel our flat (no structural changes), which the Lease allows but we need a Licence to Alter. We want to site an en suite bathroom where our kitchen currently is and have a smaller kitchen. The existing soil stack is cast iron and appears to...

I live in the middle flat of a block of three flats built in 1940's. Behind the toilet is a stack containing the mains sewage down pipe connected to waste pipe to toilet and sink etc. There is also another smaller pipe running up through the 3 flats, which i think could be a vent pipe-it isnt...

Hello all. I've got a big hot sweaty problem and as a plumbing novice, any advice at all would be hugely appreciated. I've just moved into a new room. It's in a big old block of flats, and within minutes I realised our flat is hotter than then very furnaces of hell itself. We have no means of...

Has anybody fitted or had experience with the inline electric boiler

Are you allowed to install gas appliances in flats higher than the 3red floor? I think I heard someone saying you can't. Only the 3red floor with FSD. If you are not allowed above the 3red floor, what if it's a maissonette and the kitchen is on the 4the floor upstairs?

spent the day checking working pressures on boilers in a block of flats, we were checking existing pipe sizing before replacing all the boilers i was doing the working pressure at the boiler, while my colleague (who is incidentally a blithering idiot), was at the meter monitoring the pressure...

Hi all, I'm hoping to pick some-ones brains here as I haven't done much servicing since my apprenticeship and training days having worked for a company and been employed mainly as an installation engineer. Since starting up on my own I am doing more servicing and repair and today went to a...

What would you class a flue liner/chimney through a property above eg:victorian house conversion, where you cant gain access to inspect property above or loft area?

I live in a block of 27 flats, built 1960s, owners with share of freehold, we appoint a Management Company to deal with utilities etc. Several flats - including mine - have been experiencing interrupted supply and water then bursting from taps when turned on. We raised this with a Management...

Got a customer looking for a cylinder fitted in a flat on the 6th floor of a city centre building in Glasgow. Only prob is the blow off pipe work.... Only place it can go to is a balcony. The balcony has drains on it, just wondering if its ok to terminate this way. I know Scottish regs can...

have a wee job coming up to do 3 flats at home. each flat to have a combi boiler fitted went to the job to turn water off to the building and there is one stopcock 15mm and thats it. so i cant run three combis off a 15mm mains pipe must be 20mm mdpe coming in. so i would have to upgrade or...

Evening all! I Went to look at a job today to fit a extra radiator in flat , that is currently getting refurbished. Basically it was origonally a 4 bed house and its getting transformed into 2 large flats. A baxi 80he combi has been fitted to serve both flats, i asked if its only the 1 boiler...

So the Technical Bulletin for flues in voids states that the inspection hatch has to be 60 mins fire rating. I am just about to install a flue into a lowered ceiling which will need an inspection hatch for viewing. The owner is not keen on shelling out £50+ for a purpose made inspection hatch as...

any of you guys worked in above recently installing a broag?. got called to a former hotel in nottingham today by the owner to quote for heating pack install into a 3 bed flat, 1st floor. the customer has no specifics to boiler choice or price on a 6 rad system but wants a labour only and...

Hi gang, got a prob in a block of 50 flats (4 towers), all flats run off of a thermal storage system. each tower has seperate F&R risers, feeding from two commercial boilers. The problem is that the hot water in one of the flats will only come through tepid after a few seconds of hot. Normally...