plumbing and heating

Hi there I hope you guys can help. My shower temperature is stuck at scolding! Which my wife doesn't seem to mind, but I find way too hot! We live in a hard water area and it's been in for around 12 years or so and it's therefore completely stuck. I'd love some help in identifying the make...

Hi, please see attached photos (blue: cold mains to boiler and kitchen after bathroom. Red: hot from boiler to bathroom. Yellow: gas to boiler. The other pipes are the radiator pipes that do run across under the pipes at the radiator ends - again too close to them) is this okay? I’m concerned...

Hi all, After a bit if advice if poss. I have an old open vent system in my house, and from a fair old bit of investigation I definitely think the pump is in the wrong place. It's straight after the boiler on the flow side, before the open vent. From my workings it looks like it should be...

Hi All, I'm a novice on plumbing but recently I've made changes to my property and now it has 12 radiator heating with 3 shower bathrooms. As suggeted I went with New more powerful Combi Boiler with 250l mega flow system to support 3 showers at some time (incase) but am struggling with another...

hi, we have an ecoTEC plus 831 and we’ve had issues with the heating staying on. When we came back from holiday the water pressure was low and I fixed this. The digital radio thermostat (Salus model RT300RF) was also out of batteries and we replaced these. No settings were changed. The heating...

Hi All, We're in an absolute mess. Recently we've had a plumber come out to fix our heating and hot water. Both had stopped working. The first time he came, he changed a pump. This fixed the hot water - but the heating wasn't working. About a month later, he installed two new valves (Drayton &...

Hi, We are trying to size a water heater with tank for a dormitory toilets, laundry and public showers. Kindly let me know what will be the best way to get about doing this? Following are the equipment that will be utilizing the water heaters, Area Equipment QTY Bar Kitchen Single Tap Sink 1...

Hi i am really hoping someone can advise. Came home tonight on the hottest day of the year to find that we have no hot water at all and no water pressure upstairs. The cold kitchen sink tap is working fine but no hot water in kitchen, upstairs the hot taps don't work and the sink and bath cold...

A plumber fitted a Magna Clean for us recently and we now want to put leak sealant through the system (rather than fork out hundreds to pull all of our floors up to find a leak we have). Can anyone explain the process to us? I.e. do we need to drain water out before putting the leak sealant in...

Morning Guys, I'm looking to install a word-burner / central heating with thermal store as our only heating system (don't have any other cost effected options). Finding it very hard going getting reliable info on such a system, just wondering if anyone has been down this road and could share...

Hi All I recently just had a full new central heating system installed, all pipes have been replaced and new hot and cold pipes have been replaced to cater to my new home extention and home. I also have a combi boiler. I paid British gas £8795 for the job. This was yesterday. However today I...

I live in rented accommodation. The housing association have put in a new bathroom and recently a new boiler. I have a mixer tap with shower head on the bath which I use for a shower rather than filling the bath. Since the new boiler was fitted the mixer for the shower kept cutting out the hot...

Moved into this new house in Dec 2016 , house was built in 2008 - and I notice that although every heating controls (time clock, zone valves, boiler, pump) says protect with DP switch fitted with 3a fuse that the only thing that is protecting the circuit is a SP 10a MCB in the consumer unit...

Hey Everyone, I have a 2 bedroom home (2 floors). The length of the home is 10metres by 6meteres width. Unfortunately, I was duped by a cowboy builder who installed a combi boiler (in the kitchen) and did a full central heating system installation in my home, after a few months the tradesmen...

Can anyone advise what type of elbow this is and whether it is suitable for a 25mm mains water supply? A plumber visited recently and said it's not the type of fitting he would have used (but I'd probably get away with it). Is there a better one? Thanks

Hey, New to the forum! Our heating and hot water is working absolutely perfectly but for some reason, when the heating reaches temperature and the boiler 'switches off', there is a quick but very loud gurgling noise from the immersion tank in our airing cupboard. Any ideas?!

Hey guys, Having issues with a worcester 28i junior combi. Heating is fine but when the hot water is in use it stays hot for around 30 seconds to a minute than runs cold. The boiler does not lock out. If the taps is then closed and re opens the same process happens. Hot for a short while than...

Hey guys, Having issues with a worcester 28i junior combi. Heating is fine but when the hot water is in use it stays hot for around 30 seconds to a minute than runs cold. The boiler does not lock out. If the taps is then closed and re opens the same process happens. Hot for a short while than...

Hi all im having to create this thread again as i am still having a problem trying to wire up this thermostat. My boiler is a biasi m90e24s and with the instructions that came with the unit for wiring 230v its not working. having seen the threads on here its not clear how it should be done, can...

Please can anybody help me! I've had a new worcester bosch combi 28cdi fitted, new radiators downstairs (one of which used to get hot but doesn't now). Honeywell thermostat, magnaclean. Downstairs radiators are stone cold - not even hot pipes to the rads. No air in the radiators - all bled...