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Attended a Worcester Ri which has been 'At Risked' by the service contractor due to boiler wiring. Boiler has been in operation for over 5 years.
Cylinder and all controls and fused spur located inside the property, boiler located in garage. The boiler only has SL N E supplying it, installer has connected the SL to the boiler L and bridged to boiler SL meaning the boiler is powered down until a demand is made and when the demand is satisfied comes to a very quick shut off too, no fan over...

 

Hello,

I am loking for engineers using ADEY MagnaCleanse to flush the radiators and boiler .

Boiler: Alpha CD28C with 11 radiators
Location: SE18 2SN
Email: [email protected]

Please contact me if you are a trained and certified on Adey equipment.
Thanks
Sid

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We emigrated to Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand from the UK over 20 years ago and have a successful hydronic underfloor heating company - we have ongoing work in mainly high end residential installations and existing work to be completed. We also have hundreds of previously installed systems that we maintain. We are looking to retire down to the South Island where our older children are looking at moving too and are thinking of selling our business. Currently it’s just my...

 

Hi All,
I bought this new sink tap with a shower ~£40 (one lever) on Amazon, relatively good reviews.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BLHFTJYP?smid=A1HZTFTICA23YN&th=1
I installed it (ground floor) but what I have noticed straight away is that the flow is almost half of what the wash basin tap (cheap one upstairs) produces (I am talking about the flow of hot water, all the way to the left)

I think the old sink tap (two lever Brita Kelda Chrome Amazon.co.uk -...

 

Cleaning a Magnetic Filter without an isolation valve Discussion Thread

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We have a Vaillant boiler, it has an advanced protection kit fitted that gives it a 10 year warranty. My understanding is that this is essentially a magnetic filter that captures all the deposits before the enter the boiler and contaminate it, thus invalidating your warranty.

I have a Vaillant Engineer yesterday to do it's first service and he didn't actually open up the filter to clean it out, I...

 

Hi my name is Leo, I am 19 years old, with full driving license and own transport. Last summer I completed my Level 2 Plumbing at North Kent College in Tonbridge. I have been looking for a plumbing apprenticeship, without success, ever since so that I can continue my goal of becoming a fully qualified plumber.

I am hard working, reliable and a quick learner and would love the opportunity to even work for free just to get some more experience and show what I can do. I’d really appreciate...

 

I have a Triton Lewis rail riser that came with a bar mixer.

This screenshot from a Triton video shows how the bottom bracket of the rail is installed - the screw goes through the vertical rail riser to secure it in place. The hole in the bracket is a bit larger than the diameter of the rail - the grey trims fill in that gap.

However, tightening the fixing screw pushes the rail against the (flimsy) trims. Securing this bottom bracket to the wall - but without...

 

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So the stopcock outside my workshop was leaking at the spindle when I went to turn it off. Managed to get the rusted red handwheel off the valve, wringing the retaining nut, just as expected (WD40 sprayed on the night before didn't work). I used a scrap gatevalve when doing the original plumbing, rather than a proper stopcock that takes a key. I couldn't get the whole top body out of the valve, I think these are bonded, but got the spindle nut off and packed around the spindle with PTFE...

 

I have an unvented water cylinder. It looks like it’s leaking underneath. There is water slowly seeping out from around the base. I can’t find any leaks around pipework or connections. Please see photos.



Is it likely to be the metal outer skin that has rusted or is there some inner skin that goes?



Is my only option to pull out the tank and have a look underneath?

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Hi All,

We have a Viessmann 222-F BT2B Combi Storage Boiler - it was installed in 2019 so about 6 years old. A Magnaclean Professional 2 Filter was fitted at time of boiler installation. A Power Flush was also done & a water softener fitted.

The boiler has been serviced every year without fail & the last service was about 3+ weeks ago. At time of servicing the Magnaclean filter is checked, cleaned & new Adey MC1+ Inhibitor always added.

We have 10 Radiators in the house - all double panel...

 

My central heating system is over 40 years old. A mixture of 15 and 22mm pipework to and from the boiler (which is 15 years old), while the rads are served via microbore pipe from the two distribution trees hidden away under the back bedroom floor.
A few weeks ago, the pipework became blocked and fortunately a local plumber managed to clear it. He gave me some instruction to clean the system, which I've followed closely:
1 - Refill the system with plain water, run for a day, then drain -...

 

With these sorts of bottle traps what specific fixing would you use to ensure a tight leak resistant seal?


Thanks in advance!

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Hey there has anyone signed up to Josef Valentine's (winner of .....that um ... apprentice prog) Trade mastermind yet? I watched his live webinaar about two months ago. In which he said there was limited time offer on his expertise and mentoring package. Lot's of yada yada about how good it is and will be discounted if you sign up right away... Since then I keep getting messages via text and email ... can i join in tonight for this exclusive offer. First off I wasn't sure it looked like him...

 

Hi All,
Looking to install a pre-filter before a water softener, and would appreciate any thoughts or ideas on what to buy.

I'd like to have a 1" thread in- and out-bound, as my house inbound is in 28mm copper, and the in-bound to the water softener is 1".

I would ideally like to have a kit that has a built in bypass valve - something like this :

Kit complet station de filtration duplex Aquaphos Easy ​

Kit complet station de filtration duplex Aquaphos Easy qui permet d'éliminer...

 

Hi there,
Ive got a Vaillant boiler with megaflow tank, 18 months old, from new the pressure drops so it cuts out, every few months, now twice in past month. Vaillant have said there's nothing wrong with it. A week later it does it again.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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The ghosting should stop now. Found the issue. Fixed all forums.

Next problem on this one is email.

So I'm going send a test to a bunch and please reply to this if you get the email okay.

Confirm it does appear to come from [email protected] for me.

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Hi my daughter has bought a terrace house, whilst replacing the kitchen I have
Found an additional lead stop tap which is in the way of the new kitchen units, but still appears pressurised, there are no access points outside to isolate it, is there anyway it can be capped off at floor level?

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My residential block has 5 floors above the ground floor, the 5th being the top floor (loft under the sloping roof) where one side has the communal cold water tanks for most flats and a communal hot water cylinder for most flats as well. The other side of the 5th floor has a tiny studio, where the the cold water is supplied from a tank above the studio's roof and the hot water is supplied from an adjacent immersion cylinder serving that flat alone. If I get rid of the cold water tank and...

 

The radiator in our bedroom does not warm up. I removed the thermal adjusting "thing" to expose the pin. The pin simply slides in and out as I would expect it to do. In or out, the radiator does not warm up. The radiator in the kitchen was the same, but removing the "thing" and pulling the pin out, gently of course, corrected the radiator and it functions normally now. What should I do to coerce the radiator in the bedroom to begin functioning again.

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