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Hi all, I'm a competent DIYer with an engineering background and am active in Heritage Buildings. I never touch anything I'm not allowed to albeit I've worked on the wet side of my own heating on the central heating circuit before when I had a combi - balancing rads, add a Fernox TF1, washing...

Hi there. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or experience with using Domestic Booster Pumps to raise the pressure of the hot water in your kitchen tap. Any feedback would be appreciated here. I have installed one of these in my kitchen to increase the flow of hot water to my sink which...

Hi All New to this and a little green around Gas boilers.. So, a house I’m in possession of has an old and trusty Baxi Bermuda 45 back boiler which worked perfectly fine until I isolated the gas supply from the meter box.. After a couple of months and with the weather getting colder, I’ve went...

Evening Gents. That time of year again the wife has demanded the CH Be turned on. However, im having an issue with it - It simply isnt turning on. The LED On the front panel illuminates to suggest the CH Has been turned on by the boiler, but nothing happens. The HW works perfectly normal. If...

Outdoor water tap not giving water. Out of the wall is this strange junction with a turntable square pin. Then a pipe going up towards a tap on the wall. Turning square pin doesn't seem to do anything to help get water through. I have pictures if I can send them. Any help or advice is much...

New radiator . Not heating up as oh think it should , not very hot and has been bled. Under the lockshield cap of a new Milano Windsor thermostatic valve set , hole with hexagonal gap . Turning the cap screwing anti-clockwise doesn’t seem to catch or do anything . Old radiators had a knob I...

Hello, we have problem again with hot water staying on and getting very hot. Looks like motorised valve stuck once again. If I take the head off, can I control hot water by turning valve with pair of pliers until new hear arrives?

Downstairs I had a 12 port Hetta underfloor system installed by a plumber. Upstairs I installed an 8 port Hetta system myself using the existing pipework which had an old system on. Both systems are now fully Hetta with exactly the same components on (wiring centre, manifold, actuators...

Hi, my Geberit duel push button has stopped flushing the toilet. When either button is pressed a small amount of water is released but not enough to flush the toilet. I have removed the plate holding the unit and pulled the 2 plastic tubes away. By blowing into the tubes the system flushes so I...

Hi I've just purchased a TAS2000SR but once connected the flow rate dial doesn't seem to change the flow at all. Its completely the same no matter which way the dial is turned. The only difference to my old AS2000XT is that I've located the new one TAS2000SR ~2m further away on the opposite...

After having a new roof fitted I opted for getting a clean roofline and having an aav fitted to the shortened soil stack in the loft. Since doing so we seem to be getting foul smells around the bathroom and downstairs in the kitchen whereas when the stack vented through roof it was fine. I...

I have a grundfos sololift 2 wc1 macerator that isn't working. It's about 3 years old. When the toilet flushes the bowl just fills up but the motor does not kick in. There is power going to the unit, The macerator motor/pump turns freely. I took the motor apart in the hope that there may be...

Cold water side works but hot suddenly stopped working. I’ve checked that there are no leaking pipes. Any idea? I got it installed 1 month ago. Is it down to a poor installation???

The on off timer switches on this don't work. I'm guessing there is a way to put it on timer mode instead of having to switch it on and off manually. Any ideas?

Hi all Please can someone help me throw some light on a problem I have and how I can resolve it? I have changed my electric shower (Triton T80 GSI 10.5KW) from a standard handset to a Ibergrif diverter with handset and rain head. Please see pictures attached. However upon installation the...

Hi, I am hoping someone might have some advice for me. We have woken up this morning to no central heating. We do still have hot water. It's a green Star junior boiler. The blue light comes in and stays on, the green light comes in then goes off. The pressure seems fine. We are very much not...

Hi all, Just found this forum and it looks great! Forgive me if I could have found this answer by looking longer—I've searched for a while. I am in a cold walk-up apartment on the 4th floor of a turn-of-the-century building in Brooklyn. Not sure how old the heating/boiler system is. In my...

I hope you can give me some advice. The day after a pump replacement last week, on my Halstead ace, the boiler and pipes made a hissing noise when the hot water taps were used - a noise like when the pressure is too low- this continued when the taps were turned off and until the boiler stopped...

I have a Honeywell Evohome system that is in general working well but one of the HR92 radiator valves has suddenly stopped working just before Christmas The valve appears to be communicating with the controller but the valve was stuck open. It appears to be communicating with the controller but...

Hi recently my pre paid gas ran out. I checked and I had 15 credits. I know my mums boiler had the same issue where it shuts off if there are only 15 credits left. She tells me an engineer comes and does something that takes 2 seconds and its working but he never told her why. Its a Vaillant...