Boost turns off when using hot water
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We only turn our heating on when it's needed, so we use boost maybe one hour sometimes 2 hours a day when it's very cold. I have noticed that if I start doing the washing up around the same time we use boost, the hot water is indeed hot but …
Bottom 3 rails of electric towel rail not working
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Bottom 3 rails on new electric heated towel rail not heating despite bleeding over past 5 days with no air or liquid coming out. Is this normal? What should I do?
Understairs toilet?
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I’m thinking of buying a house but would need a toilet put in downstairs. There’s space under the stairs to do this, but there’s no outside wall. Is there any reason I wouldn’t be able to fit a saniflo or equivalent? Also re ventilation - would it be possible/practical to …
TRV Valves & Automatic Bypass
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Hi Everyone I've recently bought some Tado smart radiator thermostats. I've checked my radiators and they're all TRV's (including towel radiator), expect one, which is manual, near the thermostat. I am not necessarily assuming this is a bypass radiator, as it doesn't have fixed valves with two lockshields that you …
soil p[ipe
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I have a soil pipe passing through kitchen. This was enclosed with timber however the kitchen fitters removed this when installing the new kitchen units. Whilst the exposed soil pipe cannot now be seen should this not have been left completely enclosed as previously?
Tower block - how to bring the radiator loop up to pressure?
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I live in a tower block (UK) which has a centralised boiler system. I believe (but not certain) the way it works is very hot water in some central block-wide closed loop passes through a heat exchanger and so heats the hot water that my flat uses for hot water …
Multiple thermostats on oil heating system with stove input
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I have a thermal store heated by a boiler with its own thermostat. I also have a stove with a back boiler. The stove heats water in a separate tank. There is a thermostat on this second tank that pushes hot water over to the store tank when it's hot. …
Is hot water required for unvented cylinder?
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Is a hot water loft header tank required for central heating if an unvented cylinder is fitted.
How can I speed up my hot water?
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I am after some advice on how to solve a long term, ongoing annoyance I am having regarding the water supply in my home. The problem is that it takes forever for hot water to come through the taps and shower in my house. I have a system which has …
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 …