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peter the plumber

Ok you have 2 options First talk to the owner of the house with the manhole in their garden and get permission to run a new drain branch thru their land. You need it in writing. Then hire a min digger for the work, there about Â£80 to hire per day. And run a new drain branch. Or put a new internal s...

peter the plumber

Nope theyâ€™re reverse-able.

The feed is normally on the right.

peter the plumber

This doesnâ€™t sound like an air lock to me, more likely to a faulty gate valve or isolator.

It could be dirt or muck in the tank washing down and blocking the pipes when you drain down.

The hose/main technique the correct technique is the right way to fix an air lock, leave the taps open.

peter the plumber

You do have the drain at the front of the house to use, at the moment its being used for rainwater removal. (Guttering) You could find the manhole at the front of the house, and run a branch for the new soil pipe. If there not one, then check the size of the guttering drain and see if it could be us...

peter the plumber

Its not been clipped properly.

You need to make sure all the water pipes are clipped every 50 cm and that should stop the problem.

If the pipes have gone thru any walls or they need to be insulated.

This sounds like simple bad installing to me.

peter the plumber

What kind of boiler is it?

If it were a combe boiler it would do that.

peter the plumber

I think this could be the heating pump on the boiler.

I have seen this before, last time the pump speed was too low and was turn up.

But if you have brought cheap radiators and theyâ€™re all from the same maker, it may be the design of them.

peter the plumber

If you can put some pictures up of what you have, I am sure we can tell you what to do.

peter the plumber

What you have done is by moving your bathroom, is lower your hot water pressure. Hot water is supply by a tank in your loft space, instead of having a fall of about 12 feet; you now have a fall of about 3 feet. If it was tested, you find you now have about 0.5 bar of hot water pressure. I am not sur...

peter the plumber

You are in trouble here. It sounds like you have cast iron soil pipe and you are trying to put a new toilet pan in. You canâ€™t do it. If you have space, you may be able to cut back the soil pipe under the floor and fit a flexible adaptor on it. Then you could add some 100 plastic soil pipes and run...

peter the plumber

This is a challengeâ€¦.. Ok first you need a drain putting in; from he drains from the main house drains to your caravan. Then you would need soil pipe putting in and the connections to your waste pipes. Now how to price it. Drains are about Â£100 per foot to install. I would say about Â£100 for the...

peter the plumber

This sounds like a balancing issue, the underfloor heating is taking too much of the flow.

It needs adjustment by a heating engineer.

peter the plumber

I think what is happing is all your radiatorâ€™s are turn off. The person who installed it didnâ€™t put in a by pass radiator or valve. I would take off all the theom statistic valve heads; they just unscrew by hand and restart the boiler. Leave one radiator on all the time, the bathroom one is norm...

peter the plumber

Just extend the down pipe below the water level of the drain.

It should stop it happening

peter the plumber

The best thing to do is put a new soil pipe in at the front of the house and then run all the bathroom wast pipes into it.

Things like sanflows are nothing but trouble.

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