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Hope you are all well. What have you got on today / the rest of this week?
How are we all feeling? I think we need help each other out a bit when we're in times like these. Hope you're doing okay.
When are you up for your jab? - Do you know yet?
How's work, is it still...
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Firstly, we are so glad to have you all as members here on PlumbersForums.net. We are becoming an international community more and more every day with each new member that joins us. I thought I would put together a list of forum links for you guys.
American Tile Advice Forum...
The left rear floor corner is highest (the shower pan touches/sits on the floor), sloping down diagonally to the front right corner (lowest). The front right corner shim is 5/8", the left front corner is 3/8" shimmed, with shorter shims under left middle and right rear corner.
The pan perimeters...
Recently had a Viessmann Vitodens combi boiler installed, quite often when the adjacent cold mixer tap is opened the boiler starts for a few seconds!
Can anyone tell me what is causing this?
And how to cure?
How do I get access to the flow cartridge in the Hansgrohe Bar Shower. It has the control with the 50% mark on the flow side. See attached photo - the end piece pops off but hard to see whether the small button should also come off to slide off the cover and reveal the cartridge
Dear all
I’m a home owner looking for advice.
I recently had a power flush which was unsuccessful at clearing a blocked pipe. I do appreciate these things are not guaranteed.
My question is does time taken reflect on outcome?
The reason I need to understand this is the company employed...
Our upstairs towel radiator keeps filling with air at the top. We had a new system boiler, new tank and new pipework fitted in October. The new tank is in the garage which is underneath the house and the new boiler is in the kitchen at ground floor level. We also had underfloor heating installed...
This thermoastat is much higher than the dial says. Correct.me if I'm wring but that doesn't seem right...
It's been like that for days so it's not like I've just turned it down...
I have recently moved house and would like to move a radiator from a side wall, to one below the window as is more pleasing to the eye.
I understand why it was not placed under the window, as my house is old and has concrete flooring so would be difficult when it comes to the pipework...
I need to connect 68mm plastic pipe to 68mm cast iron pipe and the water will be running plastic to cast iron. The couplers I've come across seem to be suitable if the water was running from the cast iron pipe first to the plastic pipe. Coud someone please send me a link for a suitable coupler...
Hello,
I have had a Saniflo PRO XR for three years. Still under warranty and I put cleaner/descaler every three months. It is used once or twice a day. The first year there were no problems.
Then it suddenly started to go off intermittently during the night. I took out the Elbow where the non...
Hi everyone,
I have CH with a system boiler with a header tank and 8mm micro bore pipes to the radiators, fairly standard setup I guess. House is 1990s.
My issue is that two of my radiators are cold, while the rest are perfectly fine. Both the problem radiators are downstairs and close...
Hi, a plumber came today to fit a faulty component in my boiler as we have no hot water. In trying to remove the faulty component which was seized up, he damaged two other components which now also need replacing. He went away and will telephone me with quotes for the other two parts that I now...
Happy Christmas everyone,
We’ve just had a new Gledhill Stainless Lite indirect unvented cylinder installed by Dyno. It is making an alarmingly loud popping noises when the hot water is being used, not always but very very often.
Mentally to me, it seems like the inner casing of the cylinder...
Hello,
I have a had a gravity boiler replaced from a Potterton 80e to a more recent Valliant ecoplus boiler.
The cold water tank is in the loft space directly above the 1st floor bathroom and the hot water copper immersion tank is in the 1st floor bathroom cupboard space. A fairly normal...
Hi , don’t know if this is allowed on here.... I’ve moved to Thailand and have a mybuilder account with over 200 positive ratings. 100%positive , looking for someone to take over / buy the account If possible ? Generates a lot of work if you put in the effort , excess of £25k easy a year ...
Hello, Hope you guys can help, I have a conk/clunk noise coming out the cylinder, when I draw hot water from any tap in the house - I’ve checked the pipes and I’m very sure its not water hammer, I will attached couple of recordings to the this post and what my setup looks like.
The cylinder is...
Boiler and cooker will fire up initially however when temperature hit neither will reignite, they go to lockout
You can hear them switch and the solenoids switch but the fan pre purge does not engage, if I continually turn the boiler temperature switch on and off eventually the fan kicks in and...
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