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    Capping old hot and cold pipes

    Looking for some opinions on whether you should cap old hot and cold water pipes. A plumber I got to remove some old sinks from bedrooms has capped off the hot and cold pipes under the floor. I thought it didn’t quite seem like the best thing to do and thought he would completely remove the...
  2. M

    Dishwasher Cold Water Supply Hose Leaking

    Hi I have a dishwasher cold water supply that is leaking (See Photos). My initial thought was the washer was maybe gone but looks ok. Thought about PTFE tape but everywhere says this shouldn't be needed? Any suggestions? Thanks!
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    Capping off and replacing an outlet for cold water cistern in loft

    Hi folks Following on from another thread I made recently, the plumber has agreed that the new cold feed he added to our loft cistern should have been lower than the existing feed to the cylinder for hot (he put them both roughly the same at 50mm) and he is proposing to put it right. In terms...
  4. T

    Boiler runs ok when cold and lasts about 30 minutes

    I have a 10 year old oil boiler has run well and gets serviced every year all tests are spot on, last week started locking out, would reset and run for short time, engineer fitted new control box and said thats it he was only away 10 minutes and it locked out, now waiting on new photocel, boiler...
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    Hot feed from twin pump stalls when cold feed starts in bath mixer tap

    Hello All, Hoping for a bit of advice/info in this one: My Setup Small system in apartment with cold tank above hot tank in the hotpress, so fairly low head pressure. Installed a pump about 15 years ago and worked fine until last week (original pump was an Stuart Turner ST55 replaced after...
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    Two cold radiators, rest fine, balancing doesn't seem to help

    Hi everyone, I have CH with a system boiler with a header tank and 8mm micro bore pipes to the radiators, fairly standard setup I guess. House is 1990s. My issue is that two of my radiators are cold, while the rest are perfectly fine. Both the problem radiators are downstairs and close...
  7. R

    Hot water coming from cold water taps

    Have got hot water coming from upstairs cold water taps. Nothing has been recently changed or adjusted. System boiler connected to Heatrae Sadia CL210 unvented cylinder. Anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing this?
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    Boiler high pitched noise in cold weather?

    Hi, can anyone help me resolve this issue with my ideal logic combi Esp1 35. It is making a very loud high pitched noise whenever the outside temperature is cold, when either CH or HW is being used. For example, first thing in the morning on a cold day, run hot tap or turn up CH stat and the...
    • Lewis Davies
    • Thread
    • boiler cold high noise
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Boiler Advice Forum
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    Sweating cold water pipes

    I have sweating cold water pipes, even though I have insulated them with foam it's still sweating. Any ideas what I can do next?
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    How to convert current mixer valve tap to a cold water supply inlet.

    Any plumbers can advise the best way to convert the current mixer valve tap to cold water supply inlet for electric shower. I have mixer valve tap , I would need to install a new electric shower on shower area wall .Currently is the mixer valve tap. I want to know how to do before I ask the...
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    Why does shower pressure keep going up and down and hot and cold

    Can anyone please help. We have shower issues and have had for about 2 years. We are in a farmhouse. So before hand, we would turn on our Trevi shower, it would go warm, not great pressure through the showerhead though, somewhere between normal and dripping! After a few minutes, the water flow...
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    Shower keeps going hot & cold?

    My shower keeps going cold then stays like that for a couple of seconds then goes back to hot & this will keep happening the whole time while showering. It was happening on my previous shower mixer which I then changed to the Mira one I now have & it stopped doing it for a while but now it’s...
  13. R

    Dripping Quarter Turn Cold Water Kitchen Sink Tap.

    I have a quarter turn cold water kitchen tap that has a slight drip and cannot see if the valve assembly is removed from the top? ---- there is a blue plastic cover in the top but does not seem to come off?.......... have photos of tap if anyone can help?.
    • Rodney Rayner
    • Thread
    • cold kitchen sink water
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
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    My radiotor gets cold after 10 minutes

    One of my radiators which is the biggest one in the living room gets hot at first and I can hear the water flow but after 10 minutes the water flow stops and the radiator gets cold. It has the trv valve and I have to put it close to 4 in order for the water flow to start. The retun valve is...
  15. lambokid123

    one stone cold radiator

    Hello everyone looking for abit of advice I've got a total of 6 radiators in my house 5 are all hot but the and 1 that is stone cold ive checked the trv pin and it doesn't seem to be stuck ive bleed the radiators and hasn't done nothing I turned all other radiators valves off on both ends of...
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    Radiators on ground floor stone cold

    Hi, We have a issue with our heating, where the radiators upstairs are roasting hot, yet the radiators downstairs are stone cold . We had a powerflush done the other day which didn't help ...Two radiators out of four (including lock shields and TRV's) on the ground floor where changed, but...
  17. J

    Air lock on cold feed from tank in attic

    Hi experts Fast one for ye. Air lock on cold feed from tank in attic. Got rid of it by cracking open nut on gatd valve.if the airlock was on the elbow just after tank connection how could you get rid of it buy opening nit instead of going into attic and cracking open elbow. All compression...
  18. elvis80

    New shower mixer - no cold water

    Right, complete amateur alert... I'm fitting a Bristan recessed thermostatic dual control shower mixer. Have fitted two elsewhere in the house without any issues. Got this one all connected and tested the water...hot is fine, nothing from the cold. When I first turned it on there was sound like...
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    Showers hot water now cold

    Hi all can anyone help? I have a Mira Silver mixer shower that is fed by a Stuart turner 1.5 twin pump that is about 6 months old which replaced a leaking pump. The last couple of weeks the hot water is ok for pressure but the temperature has dropped to tepid at best and sometimes cold. We don’t...
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    Cold feed blockage

    Hi all, Quick one (I hope). I have a gravity fed heating system with a glow worm flexicom boiler in the kitchen. A tank in the airing cupboard with a Grundfos Alpha 2 pump. For the last month or so I've had lukewarm water and no heating, have been taking advantage of the immersion but my...

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