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Hi guys. I replaced an electric shower for a family member recently and on completion noticed how poor the pressure was. It wasn’t like this the week before when I initially looked at it. Apparently Severn Trent were in the area the following week to do some work. She’s now saying that the...

Dear all, I would like to consult with you, my situation is the following. Drainage in my kitchen has been extremely slow (water in sink stands for hours), I have bought and installed a new siphon and cleaned drainage pipes. The water still stands there and doesnt drain...can anyone advise...

Greetings, newbie here, kindly seeking advice on a water pump issue I have. Before I get started, I'd like to mention that I'm a complete novice and have no prior experience with pumps or plumbing. Basically, I'm in the process of purchasing a home that is out in the sticks and has a 120ft...

Just had new Worcester Greenstar 8000 Lite Boiler and all radiators replaced. We upgraded to a combi Boiler. Had issues during and now after installation. Radiators are based over three floors with Four on the ground floor, Four on the First floor and three on the top floor. Issues...

Washing machine standpipe issues So I moved into an old house and the laundry area just has this standpipe sticking out of the floor. Cannot access crawlspace to see if there's any type of trap under the floor. We believe the pipe just makes a 90° turn under floor to meet up with other drain...

Afternoon all I’m trying to replace a toilet downstairs and have come across two issues. The floor is not level and there is a lip at the front of around 5mm which causes the toilet to rock, even when bolted down. The bolts aren’t the best and are plastic brackets on the inside of the toilet...

Hi Guys, Just changed a sink tap for customer and when turned the hot water on the boiler temp rose to 90 within few seconds and burner cut out, temp came down to 78 and the boiler then fired up again and keeps cycling like this. Customer said this has been happening for a few months now, I...

Hi all, just a side note to start, I am not a plumber and have pretty much zero knowledge about plumbing. I have three toilets in my house, a downstairs one, big bathroom one and an en-suite one. There was a rattling noise coming from the downstairs toilet whenever the chain had been flushed...

Hi all. I've got an issue developing with my heating that is causing some head-scratching. First, some background info - the system consists of a 36kW condensing boiler, supplying 10 radiators, 2 towel rails & an underfloor loop, using 22/15mm copper tube. A magnetic filter is fitted on the...

I have a worcester Bosch greenstar CDI compact that’s around 6 years old. Over the last few months I’ve noticed the pressure when the heating isn’t on drops to 0 and if I flick the Salus control on the boiler to on nothing happens and the boiler light stays off. What I have since worked out is...

I have a 2 port concealed shower valve, I have connected the hot supply to hot inlet and cold supply to cold inlet.! But for some reason when I turn the dial to hot, cold wate comes out and vice Versa.! Am I missing something.? 😫🤦🏻‍♂️

Hi there I’m a tenant and after advice before trying to tackle what I think is an issue with my land lord. I’ve been in the property about 9 years now and despite numerous requests he’s not had the boiler tested, he’s said it has been but no one has been the the home to check it. It’s a really...

Hi After a home emergency insurance call the engineer to replaced the actuator motor a the 3port shoes (I watched him replace it) he plugged the header tank so he didn’t have to drain the whole system and replaced the whole motor and the shoe all be it a different model but it did the job...

Hello As per title, the 3 zones of UFH to one manifold are not working. All is good from an electrical perspective, i.e. the room thermostats are calling for heat, the UFH wiring centre is triggering the boiler, but simply no heat is coming from the floor. What makes analysis difficult is 1)...

Just moved into a house with 5 heating zones, 4 of which are underfloor and connected to a Heatmiser UH2. The 4 UFH zones each have a thermostat - one old dial type and 3 Heatmiser Slimline programmable stats. A few teething problems with a zone valve fitted the wrong way round but generally...

Hi, I am having issues with an unvented water cylinder and just wanted to double check something. About a week ago I noticed that when the system was turned on there was a dripping coming from the prv and pressure rose to around 4.5 bar. As soon as a toilet was flushed or tap was run the...

We've recently just moved into our recently renovated home and we've found out that we've got some interesting plumbing issues, the first one is that both the upstairs and downstairs toilets are hot (the cistern water is hot) and radiating through the toilet and wall (concealed cistern), and the...

Called to repair Baxi Duo-Tec Combi no hot water? Replaced plate heat exchanger blocked solid replaced change over cartridge and DHW sensor still the same issue Boiler comes on reaches 43-45* then shuts down then reignites and then same again? I took the inner door panel off while the hot tap...

Hello, Hoping someone can help! Not sure what else to try. We have a Vaillant eco tec boiler and we also have a Vaillant auro stor water heater, but for the last two months all of our hot water is coming out Lukewarm. When we first moved in it worked perfectly and the water was super hot. Our...

Hi. I've been having issues with a betacom 28 not delivering hot water. I spent around £600 on it last year and had numerous components replaced. The heating element was clogged up with sediment from within the system and this along with some other bits was replaced, the system was flushed and...