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    Queries about district/community heating systems and HIUs

    Thanks Chuck. I would be suspicious of electronics humming or buzzing. Boxes of electronics like central heating control units and consumer units should not hum or buzz? Surely, this is indicative of a fault? But this hum was heard in all four apartments that we viewed. I could understand...
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    Queries about district/community heating systems and HIUs

    Last year, my wife and I viewed four apartments in a block of apartments that had a district/community heating system. Each apartment therefore had a heat interface unit (HIU). It was my first experience of this type of heating and I had never seen an HIU before. In each apartment that we...
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    Cold water supply to a bathroom washbasin in a modern flat?

    Thank you for your replies so far, but I am afraid that I do not really understand them and their relevance to my query. Let me try again please. If we are viewing modern purpose built flats with the prospect of buying one, how likely are we to find ones in which the cold water supply to a...
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    Cold water supply to a bathroom washbasin in a modern flat?

    I was thinking of a large black plastic one. In the house we currently live in, there is a large black plastic tank in the loft that feeds only the vented hot water cylinder and the cold water taps on the two baths. All the remaining cold water taps in the house, including those on the...
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    Cold water supply to a bathroom washbasin in a modern flat?

    I refer to modern purpose-built flats - built within the last 35 years, say. How common is it, in this type of accommodation, for the cold water supply to a bathroom washbasin to come indirectly through a cold water storage tank? Or is it far more common for the cold water supply to come...
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    The cold water supply to kitchen sinks and bathroom washbasins

    Thanks again. But actually, the scenario I was thinking of was a combination of bypassing the cold water storage tank, as described previously, and replacing the existing conventional boiler with a system boiler and its associated hot water cylinder. Wouldn't the hot water from the cylinder...
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    The cold water supply to kitchen sinks and bathroom washbasins

    Thank you for the reply. Yes, the conventional boiler in the house we are considering moving to is 14 years old, so it is probably near the time to replace it. I was actually thinking of installing a new system boiler and hot water cylinder, which require neither a cold water storage tank nor...
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    The cold water supply to kitchen sinks and bathroom washbasins

    For residential housing, what are the current regulations and/or recommended/standard practices regarding the supply of cold water to the taps on kitchen sinks and bathroom washbasins? Must the supply come directly from the mains or can it come from the cold water storage tank? Or is the...
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    Need to cap a hole after removing an overflow pipe

    Frankly, I would be quite happy to pay postage and packaging for just one flanged barrel plug if it solves my problem. I would like to know who buys packs of hundreds of these plugs, and I would ask them whether they would be willing to sell me one. I phoned one manufacturer/distributor of...
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    Need to cap a hole after removing an overflow pipe

    I have an overflow pipe (standard diameter 21.5mm) sticking out through a hole in a white uPVC fascia board at our house, but the overflow pipe is no longer required and could be removed. However, before removing it, I need some way of capping the hole - a white barrel plug, for example. Does...
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    Problem concerning WC pan connectors

    Thank you. But, as far as I can see, the McAlpine WC-CON8 is just another 90° pan connector. Why might the WC-CON8 work when the 90° pan connector that I already have doesn't work?
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    Problem concerning WC pan connectors

    Sorry, but I don't understand what the "tail" is in this context. However, I have already replied to ShaunCorbs regarding the McAlpine swan neck pan connector that he suggested. I don't think that one will work.
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    Problem concerning WC pan connectors

    Thank you. But, as I see it, the "head" of the McAlpine swan neck pan connector in the technical drawing is set back, and so it looks as though the end of the pan outlet would have to overhang to the midway point over the drain hole (that is, 40mm to 50mm) for the connector to be useful. But...
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    Problem concerning WC pan connectors

    Thank you. I'm sorry though, but I don't fully understand what you wrote. I can see that the MKO2 is an offset connector with an 18mm offset. And I also see that there is an MKO4 with a 40mm offset. But I don't understand the relevance of the Mkea. Can't the MKO2 be pushed directly into the...
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    Problem concerning WC pan connectors

    Thank you, but it is a little difficult because, in order to keep the original post as short as possible, I did not explain the whole situation. In reality, my plumber has already attempted to install the new WC by reusing the 90° pan connector from the old WC. The attached photo shows the...
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