Water pressure and flow rate
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I currently have a problem with water flow and hot water feed to upstairs bathroom when the Kitchen sink tap is open. I am doing a loft conversion and a plumber mentioned make sure your builder put 22mm pipe feeding up from the new Megaflow Cylinder. Hpowever my builder says …
Sewage smell that comes and goes
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Hello, looking for any advice please! I live in a small terraced house and for the past few weeks have had a foul smell (like sewage/drains) in the hallway that comes and goes. It seems linked to when I empty the bath or the washing machine drains but not consistently. …
Gravity fed electric shower?
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Hey! I currently have a mains fed electric shower… pressure isn’t great… even with a pressure booster pump. I’m thinking about installing a dedicated shower header tank in my loft to hopefully achieve more pressure than mains… but can you even get a gravity fed shower that runs solely from …
show/aerator attachment for mixer tap?
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I'm renting a flat which has a mixer tap in the kitchen like this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bristan-VAC-SNK-MT-Monobloc/dp/B00B9IZMXC/ref=sr_1_86?crid=3L9LWTCERIKT9&dchild=1&keywords=tap%2Battachment%2Bsink%2Bkitchen&qid=1609096831&sprefix=tap%2Battachemnt%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-86&th=1 The problem is the water pressure is quite high, and when I turn the tap on, it splashes everywhere. The nozzle seems to be plastic and welded to the tap. Is there anything I …
CH overflow problem
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I have an old conventional CentralHeating system. Recently it has developed a fault where water is expelled from the system back into the header tank and out through the overflow. As I am away from home for 3 months from this weekend I had arranged for a plumber to deal …
3 port valve replacement
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I have an old Atmos multi 24/80 boiler and I need to replace the 3 port diverted valve but it is only a three wire valve. Can this be replaced with a 5 wire valve and not use the orange and grey wires? Alternative, could someone suggest a 3 wire …
Central Hearing Leak
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I’m looking for some expert opinion in a problems with my central heating system. We have a condensing combination boiler which was fitted in 2015. Whenever we have used the boiler we have always had to periodically top up the water to 1bar as it would drop every few weeks. …
Stop water flow
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We have a very slow filling loo I feel it’s the inlet valve causing problem Problem is that the cut off point has been in a built in unit and to access would damage unit How can I stop water so can change inlet valve
Cistern leaking at overflow join
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Our toilet cistern is leaking from where the external overflow leaves the bottom of the cistern. Is this something we/I can fix myself?
Outside tap
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Have a dripping outside tap bought a replacement but the stop cock does not shut the existing tap off inorder to swop it