Clean up leak from waste pipe in sub floor
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Hi! So we’ve noticed a funky smell in the kitchen, had a good look and found our sink waste pipe was cracked. Crack is since fixed but we don’t know how long it had been like that for and there is now sludgy that stinks under the suspended floor. It’s …
Soil pipe join fall
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The entry to the soil pipe on the outside of my house is about 200mm away from the corner of my bathroom. I need the soil pipe to run as close to the wall as possible as the toilet is a few meters away inside the bathroom so I was …
Ecoflam MXE
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I have a Rayburn with a retro fit Ecoflam burner. It will light and run 2-3 times but then fail to relight. Checked, changed, swapped, the nozzle, igniter, coil, Sovs, photocell all make no difference to symptom. I’m beginning to think that it could be fuel starvation from tank due …
How to solve noisy taps?
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The mains pressures is high, making taps noisy. If I turn the pressure down, taps are a lot quieter but boiler don't work very well. Shower doesn't have enough pressure. What to do?
Crosswater Thermostatic Shower
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Have had 2 Crosswater showers recently installed (Kai 2 Lever with handset & Diverter) and Watersquare handset & diverter) My plumber doesn’t seem to have a clue how to set the temperature correctly and has left us with a setting that gives us only warm/hot water and no cold at …
Aga hot water issue
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The overflow from the header tank was leaking. The header tank supplies the hot water cylinder, which in turn is heated by an Aga flow and return. The header tank has one water feed in, one outlet to the bottom of the cylinder, an expansion pipe from the cylinder and …
Midpoint actuator or valve issue
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The issue I am having is that the central heating is not turning off when scheduled to. It appears to be a fault with either the midpoint actuator or the brass valve. The actuator stays in the central heating position so I have to remove the actuator box and turn …
shower pump problems?
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I have had trouble with our power shower, we recently changed the the thermostatic shower valve movement, and things seem ok with the shower but it is now not running well pump is not kicking in at times stopping all together when it is on , we do have a …
Difference in flow?
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Hi, I'm on a gravity-fed system with boiler in garage, cylinder in landing cupboard, and water tank in loft. My water pressure on outside tap reads between 2 and 2.5 bar depending on time of day. The cold mains enters the boiler in 15mm piping. I'm getting about 6 litres …
Toilet waste pipe in wrong position?
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I wish to replace a Twyford toilet fitted in 1986. It is close coupled and I suspect that modern replacements are now less deep and sit closer to the wall. The existing outlet to the sewer is set vertically in a concrete floor and appears to be a 'pottery' type …