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  1. R

    15mm gas supply

    what heat only boilers are available in 15mm supply? total length from meter is only 6m inc bends but the route outside is a mare passing electric cab, walls gates and downpipes..and existing behind all the cabinets:thinking: easier if 15mm supply boiler is available then its a plug in job to...
  2. L

    New Internal stopcock because of new water supply, quick question about the existing

    Hi We are having a new water main fitted to replace our old line which had poor flow. However the new entry point of where the new main enters the house is in a different location to where the existing stopcock is. The new line is coming up through the wall of the kitchen using a insuduct...
  3. F

    How to turn off cold supply to toilet

    I have a property with close coupled toilets. To change the syphon on the upstairs one, I turned off the mains water, opened two cold taps, and drained the water manually before proceeding with the job. Not a drop of water emerged from the pipework. Downstairs, on the toilet immediately below...
  4. F

    Mono Mixer Tap - cold water supply only

    A relative wants a small basin mounted on the wall in a grd. level toilet. There is only a cold water supply to this room and they are happy to just have cold water run to the basin. Can a mono mixer tap be used without having to blank off the threaded hot inlet? fatmax
  5. T

    Very slow hot supply

    Hi I have taken over a job where a total incompetent fool was playing plumber but clearly did not have a clue. Has destroyed the poor home owners gaff, started at just a leaking Johnson fitting (back to front) the catalog of mess is endless. The pipe work he done looked like mario had been at...
  6. T

    Supply pipe replacement with MDPE - check my plan!

    Hi, I'm a competent person by diy standards and would like to understand if there are any serious flaws in the following plan. Currently the supply pipe comes from the water board's box and across the boundary in a 25mm MDPE blue pipe. That pipe is then joined to the original lead pipe, which I...
  7. S

    Flat on shared supply. Not receiving any water in my flat.

    Hello. I live in a converted flat. I'm on the ground floor, and there is a basement and top floor. The water supply comes in to the basement, then the pipe travels up to the ground floor where there are 2 stopcocks. 1 for the ground floor flat (mine). 1 for the top floor flat. I turned my...
  8. S

    Flat conversion-new mains supply

    Hi, Just been thrown in at the deep end here, local builder has brought me in on a conversion job a bit late on ( 5 storey grade 2 house, converted into 9 two bed flats As i said late to the party so need to get on with 1st fix, will 20mm mains to each flat from basement be ok as having...
  9. Dom Perkins

    Mains water supply, Can it be run surface around property?

    Hi all, Have discovered a leak between the water meter and the stop-cock under the house somewhere. A lot of it is buried under the floor/in concrete so have no way of getting at it to find and fix. I'd like to run a new 25mm from the meter (under the drive) and pop it up at the corner of the...
  10. M

    Automatic way to prevent private supply from freezing up

    Hi all, We moved out here to a farm in the Scottish Highlands a couple of years ago, and this is our first cold winter. We have a private water supply, and some of the supply pipe runs over-ground. Last week in the cold snap, it froze. We've been generally in the habit of running a cold tap...
  11. C

    Problem with hot water supply

    I should be really grateful if someone out there could please help me (and my daughter!) with the following problem. For the past few weeks, my daughter's hot water (from the bath and basin tap, I think) has been dwindling, to the point where there is almost no water coming out and she is very...

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