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My kitchen is being renewed and I need to locate a 2 gang 13amp double pole switch socket beneath the fixed worktop for the washing machine and fridge. Ideally, I would have fitted a 2 gang RCD socket but since it won't be easily accessable, I hope to use a 1gang RCD spur which I can put above the w...

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Hi kbrownie, very many thanks for your advice, which I will heed when I do the repair.

Dadwood

Having drilled through the twin and earth suppy to a 13amp socket outlet, we are told it is OK to use butt crimps to make the repair. But is it best if we use parallel insulated crimps, or would those with funnel ends be better? Also, when making the repair do we strip back sufficient insulation fro...

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I just read the plea from the lad who drilled thro a cable. My kitchen fitter has just done the same thing; he's gone thro a cable supplying a 13amp socket outlet. Ideally, I would like the contractor to replace the entire cable from the adjacent outlet (it's a ring main), but the existing cable is ...

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Your comments are duly and humbly noted; you are both absolutely right of course, there are MANY who offer solid and sensible advice to those who seek it. I do hope no one has taken offence by my not mentioning each of you by name. So, just let me reiterate: Many thanks to you ALL for your support a...

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I have only been a member of DIY DOCTOR for a few months, but in that time I have received some excellent advice on two issues from (amongst others) plumbbob. When I look at his records, plumbbob is one of the most prolific contributors to the PLUMBING forum. His advice and support comes obviously f...

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Very many thanks for your advice Plumbob, the boiler is gas fired. I'll install the valve very close to the coil inlet.

Dadwood

Mine is quite an old heating system. It comprises a cast iron boiler, indirect HW storage cylinder, pumped HW to rads, and gravity heated domestic HW. At present there is no valve on the gravity pipework between the boiler outlet and the cylinder, so in winter when the heating system is on for prolo...

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If you do indeed have an indirect system, then there is another, albeit only slight, possibility. It is this; if the boiler is not set to fire but for some reason the pump is circulating (cold) water through the cylinder heating coil, then that coil water could be taking the heat out of the domestic...

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I don't think you've said whether your central heating boiler can also heat your domestic hot water. Can it? If you go to bed knowing that the cylinder contains plenty of hot water, and yet in the morning it has become cold, then that water must be going somewhere. You're not using an old type hot-f...

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Yes, I fully agree with htg engineer. Once you have closed the valves, you will of course have to crack open the connections on the rad side of the valves in order to drain out the water in the rad before removing it. You will need to open the vent cock on the top of the rad to enable the water to d...

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I expect by now you will have solved your problem but as I've only just read of your dilema I thought I'd reply just in case you are still suffering. We had precisely the same problem a year ago. When an engineer visited he had to remove the pump and all the rubber pipes and gaiters from underneath ...

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If you have a 'conventional' system that stores your domestic hot water in a hot water cylinder, you should find a stop valve located on the outlet from the cold water head tank to the cylinder. This tank will be positioned above the cylinder - usually in the attic. But if you have a combi boiler, y...

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This is a difficult one to answer without seeing the job, however, I hope these comments may help. Firstly, you talk about a 'permanent' leak. Do you mean it occurs all the time, even when the shower is not being used? Or do you mean it occurs every time the shower is in use, but only then? If it oc...

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Your existing radiator probably has a valve connected at each end (with the two hot water pipes then coming up into the bottom of those valves). But most heated towel rails have the connections into the bottom (although some do have them in the side). So the first thing you must do is decide what ty...

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