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  1. M

    Sleeving for Plastic oil pipe above ground

    hello, anyone know where to get fireproof sleeving, to sleeve a bit of plastic oil pipe which comes out of the ground about 8 inches ? Thanks in advance
  2. S

    Apprentice/plumber wanna be /helper wanted London

    Need someone as above ! Must be : good time keeping in the mornings no mobile phone addicted able to move tools about and clean up Position is not full time as all depend on flow of work . Some weeks will be full time some not as much . Interest ???? Call me on 07900830869 Stan work is...
  3. E

    Water supply above ground level

    Hello, please can I ask ... I need to replace my old iron water supply pipe - private supply, low pressure, about 1 bar. It's difficult to do it below ground level - removing the kitchen sink and cupboards, breaking the solid floor, and removing a drain that runs near the wall outside. The...
  4. P

    sewer/drain smell under ground floor toilet

    Hi I write in despair. I live in a mid terraced house with a ground floor extension on the back of the house housing the kitchen. We have a downstairs bathroom with shower, sink and toilet. For the past few weeks, we have been smelling a drain/sewer type smell from below the toilet and in...
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    Air and ground source heat pump courses

    I was thinking about broadening my horizons and start looking into doing an air or ground source heat pump course. Anyone know a place in Bristol also if you guys recon its worth it?
  6. B

    Servicing/ maintenance ground source, air source units & ecocent.

    For those of you that dont know me, Im an OFTEC oil engineer specialising mainly on service/ repair. Ive been asked by a few customers if I can service ground source and air source units including Ecocent cylinders (I have G3 for regular unvented). I know nothing about this stuff and I wont...
  7. D

    Hole found on a boss on 4"

    I went in to check a plot before the boxings were done. I found a soil that looked fine from where I was standing but upon closer inspection I realised that a patch of plastic and be placed over what I found after to be a large hole in the soil! The Ground workers had tried & failed to make a...
  8. A

    Ground workers!!

    What is it with Ground workers?? Been waiting 3 months for the ground worker to return to site and uncover leaking pipe and now I have till Thursday morning to sort it out!! " Cause it'll be paved by lunch time Thursday!!" Got to love them!!
  9. A

    Core Drill bits

    Hi All, I'm quite new to the trade, so I didn't have a lot to spend on tools. I bought some cheap core bits, but I find every time I use them it's a real pain to get them off the arbour. The drilling winds it on so tight I can't get it off on site, needs a vice and long steel bar to loosen it...
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    G3 and UVHWH

    Hi guys I'm not sure if this should be in another section as I am asking for replies from experienced and qualified ppls. The regs show that the water from the PRV/TRV valve off an UVHWH would normally expected to be terminated at ground level with suitable protection. I have my thoughts...
  11. S

    Solid fuel CH System - Ground Floor Flat

    Hello - I'm new here - I'm a householder, not a plumber, but would really like some advice - here goes: I wish to install a multifuel boiler (possibly a charnwood Cove 2B) in a ground floor flat. I obviously have no loft space and a maximum ceiling height of 2400mm. I wish to run...
  12. Robert Tyrrell

    Ground source water map

    Can anyone provide a direct link to the environment agencies ground source and borehole maps please? I have tried going through the OFTEC installers portal but after about 15 minutes of trying I gave up and I need to check on one of my services for the TI/133D
  13. S

    Gas Pipe under ground floor crawl space is this legal?

    I am about to have CH installed. I have about a 1 meter crawlspace under the floorboards downstairs (dirt floor/ air bricks). I would like to go from the front of the house under the living room to the kitchen and up where the boiler is to be situated as opposed to having an outside gas pipe...
    • Skittery
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    • about boiler different floor gas gas pipe ground legal pipe space under
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    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  14. L

    Toilet overflow pipe problem!

    I own a ground floor flat in a mixed small block of private and council owned. The council flat above mine has an overflow pipe from the toilet cistern which does not extend out from the wall at all. Water has leaked twice from the pipe for extended periods in the last two years. This has...
    • Lloydhunt
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    • damage ground oil overflow overflow pipe pipe problem toilet water
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  15. S

    UNFH or solar system or air to water or ground source heat pump or wind turbine

    if you are doing one of the above (any where in UK ) and need a free pair of hands with brain :) (not sure about the brain ) pls let me know will work for free just to see how jobs are done I also will buy you a full breakfast .....(every day ) ps:any one ?
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    ground floor gurgling issues

    A little bit of advice please if possible. I have just done a bit of work in an old grade 2 listedbuilding that had been converted into flats. The job went well, howeveralthough some of the dwellings are unoccupied some of the residents on theground floor who occupy 1 stub stackbetween 2 flats...
  17. Bettyboo

    How to heat a country cottage that has no gas - renewable? ground pump??

    Hi I have seen a cottage for sale in the country that has an old oil aga and radiators. Woodburning stoves. No gas supply but electricity Does anyone know whether ground source heat pumps are worth considering please? Can anyone suggest a more economical set up than an oil aga and radiators...
  18. F

    gas leak in ground floor flat

    hi plumbers o sorry heating engineers (joke) I have bought a 11 year old flat purpose built in 2000 and I had the old boiler taken out and replaced with a new one so far so good it was about to be commissioned and there's a gas leak between my gas valve on my boundary wall (inside flat) to gas...
  19. D

    Ground source heat Pumps

    went today to repair some steel heating pipes in a massive old building. pipes are as rotten as a pear. Customer informed me that they are having the existing heating and rad pipework (which by the way is a one pipe system) linked up to a ground source heat pump. My understanding is that the...
  20. Q

    Which shower pump and where

    Just a quick one Cant decide what power shower pump to buy and where to place it. It has to feed a bath, basin and twin headed shower. The hwc is on the ground floor, bathroom on first and of course cwsc in loft. Do I set it at the base of the hwc (ground floor) or 600mm below the cwsc? Was...

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