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Broken coals bed - Pass or fail gas test certificate?
Heating & Gas  •  570 views  •  0 answers

There are a total of four beds in my gas fire, to which the coals then get located. The front bed is clean broken into almost two equal halves, which unless unbuilding the beds, you wouldn't actually know it is broken. I don't know who made the fire (there's no …

Internal Flue Sealing
Heating & Gas  •  569 views  •  2 answers

We've just moved into a house with an Ideal Atlantic Combi 24 gas boiler. One of our first moves was to get a smart meter fitted, and the engineer who came to do this immediately slapped a 'Do Not Use' notice on the boiler as the flue hadn't been sealed …

Tap problems
Plumbing  •  569 views  •  0 answers

Why does the hot tap in the bathroom turn on when I turn the kitchen cold tap?

How to identify a thermostat?
Heating & Gas  •  566 views  •  1 answer

Trying to identify a central heating thermostat so my daughter can get online instructions. It’s round, black glass with blue light showing curved section and it has a logo of two silver/grey leaves on the left hand side (as you look at it). Anyone know what make it is?

Been gone 2 months, how do I prevent pipe issues?
Plumbing  •  563 views  •  2 answers

Hi, I have not been home for 2 months and I need advice on what to do before I can turn on any water tap please. I'm worried about flooding or pipes bursting.

Freestanding bath taps won’t fit 3/4 inch connector
Plumbing  •  563 views  •  0 answers

Freestanding bath taps won’t fit 3/4 inch connector. Bought second hand. 3/4 inch is too big think screw thread is 22mm. I’m no plumber so really need advice. Am I missing a part I.e. nuts olives I really don’t know what to do

Pump position for hot water?
Plumbing  •  562 views  •  0 answers

I need to install a single impeller pump to increase the hot water flow to the taps. Its an indirect heated hot water tank gravity fed from the cold water tank. Is there any reason I can't install the pump on the cold water feed rather than the hot water …

Toilet leak, bung missing?
Plumbing  •  560 views  •  1 answer

Brand new toilet all connected plumbed up no leaks from toilet but has a whole on left side looking from the back made in to the toilet pan and is leaking water out of it should this happen or is there a bung missing

Water pressure no hot water
Plumbing  •  560 views  •  1 answer

Hey there bit of a weird one we have a condenser boiler that has stopped producing hot water but still heats the radiators, we have good cold water pressure upstairs but it’s really bad downstairs in the kitchen but the outside tap on the same main line and 4ft away …

pop up bath drain twist knob
Plumbing  •  558 views  •  1 answer

i have a loose twist knob on the pop up bath drain, it has no grub screw, how do you remove it . . .

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