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    How adjust ballcock in my attic

    Amateur here! See photos. The cold water tank is my attic is constantly dripping (a drop every 5 seconds) onto the outside of my house. It seems fairly obvious that I should adjust the ballcock in my water tank. I have done this sort of thing before but in my toilet cistern. It seemed simpler...
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    Redbrick house from 1904 - Already has underfloor heating

    Hi, I have an 1904 redbrick 2,500 square feet house. We have UFH on every floor. 3 Floors House is reasonably well insulated but far from perfect. Would there be any point in installing a "air to water" heating system that could link into my existing UFH??
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    Extending water UFH to attic

    I had this system drained down and serviced recently. The guy who did it has 20 years+ experience with this stuff. He indicated that it would be east to get heating into attic???
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    Extending water UFH to attic

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    Extending water UFH to attic

    Thanks Simon, Maybe this second photo makes a difference? This is a second manifold in a different room. Could this be used to run up the attic (low temp rads).
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    Extending water UFH to attic

    Hi, I have 5 bed house with underfloor heating on all 3 floors.I also have converted attic. UFH was installed in year 2000. I want to put low temp rads in attic (it currently has no heating!) and feed water from UFH on floor below. Question 1: Is this a sensible approach? Question 2: Is this...
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    20 year old UFH - Upgrade?

    Thanks for your expertise. One final question. Given that the UFH is on 3 levels/storeys of house... Do I need more than one pump?? Is it possible to say?
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    20 year old UFH - Upgrade?

    Thanks for your expertise. One final question.
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    20 year old UFH - Upgrade?

    See image with 2 purple buttons indicating where the water goes. The "f" pipe goes 2 ways. One at ground level towards the kitchen/house. The other is way is via a pressure gauge and at waist level into kitchen/house. Incidentally, the boiler also does the hot water.
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    20 year old UFH - Upgrade?

    Hi, See attached. Hopefully that helps. THis is the back porch of thehouse. There is a bedroom above and another bedrroom above that.
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    20 year old UFH - Upgrade?

    Hi, I have domestic water based UFH - 20 years old. House is 100 years old with 5 beds. UFH everywhere. Works okay but perhaps could be better. Top of house is coldest. I have newish worcester boiler(Greenstar 8000 life). System is on 4 different storeys, 5 manifolds and perhaps 18 loops...
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    Would a second gas boiler be a good idea?

    Thanks again, (By the way my bill of 1,000 is probably closed to 700 as it included elec and there was an estimated element). I'll take your advice. But how do I find a "heating engineer"? Is that basically just a good boilerman/plumber? Or is it something different.
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    Would a second gas boiler be a good idea?

    Thanks you for your response. Worcester Greenstar 800 life boiler was installed in 2020. Cylinder is new, big and about 6 feet tall. There is also a pump. The UFG is 20 years old with 5 manifolds over 4 floors. To put this in perspective, my gas bill for 2 winter months was almost 1,000 per...
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    Would a second gas boiler be a good idea?

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    Would a second gas boiler be a good idea?

    Hi folks, I have newish gas boiler in 5-bed period red-brick house. The ENTIRE house has underfloor heating which works pretty well. However, my gas boiler provides heat for underfloor heating and also heat for hot water. Obviously these are at totally different temperatures. ALso, there are...
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