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by peter the plumber
Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:16 am
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Various water tanks in flat!
Replies: 3
Views: 4201

If it’s a council home, you should just call them out.

Don’t touch it or you would invalidate your tenancy and lose your home.
by peter the plumber
Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:08 am
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Cold Water Supply
Replies: 1
Views: 4108

Right this sounds like a faulty stopcock or an air lock. Make sure your tank is filling, if it’s not sure that all of your stopcocks are open, it’s easy to turn one off and forget about it. If your tank is full, then test the water out pipe. Make sure the gate valves are open and working. And tr...
by peter the plumber
Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:50 am
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Plumbing Courses are they worth it?
Replies: 6
Views: 7409

Now I know what your thinking, why is it so hard to get into plumbing?

The reason is simple, there are so many people trying to work has plumbers, they have had to put new regs in to stop the “cow boysâ€
by peter the plumber
Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:35 am
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: Expansion Tank
Replies: 2
Views: 4400

First let me say I am not going to second guess on a plumber who looks at it in person. The water should always be clear on heating system, if its not there a problem. If the water not clear that means there no inhibitor in the system and its rusting the inside of your heating system. But when I thi...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:24 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: Flame cuts out too soon
Replies: 3
Views: 4541

It’s a radiator-balancing problem The lock shields need to be look at to ensure an equal distribution of hot water. It’s a slow job, but you can do it with a small spanner. You just open the last radiator lock shield to full, then work back to the first on one the heating system turning each one...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:07 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: Radiator valve connections
Replies: 2
Views: 4747

They do sell 10mm radiator valves, but you can buy 15mm to 10mm reducing sets.
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:03 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: central heating switches itself on
Replies: 5
Views: 5663

I think what’s happening here is your boiler is working to keep your cylinder warm and not your radiators. If you have thermostatic radiator valves, you need to have a by pass radiator on all the time, so the boiler does not over heat if there all reach the right temp. If you have a frost thermost...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:52 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: No Hot water, but central heating working OK
Replies: 7
Views: 52050

It sounds to me that your 2-way/3-way valve is jammed with sludge or just failed.

A 2 way valve does hot water or heat.

A 3 way does hot water or heat or both.

You need to have a pro look at it.
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:42 pm
Forum: Bathrooms, Drainage and Waste Plumbing Forum
Topic: Difficuty fitting an Air Admittance valve - AAV
Replies: 2
Views: 6150

Is your soil pipe below a window or is it 3 meters above the top of the window? If your soil pipe is below a window you need an AAV, but if it’s above it you don’t. I would get your plumber back if it’s below the window level and let him sort it out. A 32 mm AAV would work but you may have a p...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:56 pm
Forum: Central Heating and Air conditioning and Ventilation Forum
Topic: Urgent Hlep !!! Shower pump/water pressure problem
Replies: 6
Views: 13368

This is so funny Ok folks your cylinders only hold about 115 litres of hot water, your shower pumps run at about 15-40 litres a min. So you only have about 10-3 mins of hot water before you run out. The reason for your pumps dieing is that they are just running out of water. You if have a look at yo...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:36 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: How to connect 1" hose to 15mm internal pipework?
Replies: 3
Views: 12414

1 inch is 25 mm and they’re a few ways of doing this. But the simple ways are: You can just get mi coupler size 22mm x 1inch, and then put a 22mm to 15 mm reducer in which will cost about £13, £3 for the fitting and about £10 for the copper pipe. Or use MDPE Blue pipe size 25mm and do the pipe ...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:10 pm
Forum: Insulation Forum
Topic: Loft insulation installed,rooms colder
Replies: 2
Views: 6458

I know this may sound funny, but this is an airflow problem. You will find that the rooms do feel cold in the winter and hot and stuffy in the summer. This is the odd thing about houses and insulation is that: you need some drafts in your home. The reason that the room are feeling cold in the winter...
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:02 pm
Forum: Plastering and Dry Lining Forum
Topic: Plastering/Skimming?
Replies: 6
Views: 7449

I would get some Polycell “smoothoverâ€
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:53 pm
Forum: Plastering and Dry Lining Forum
Topic: New plasterboard wall in bathroom
Replies: 3
Views: 5050

Why are you tiling? I would have use shower board and been done by now.

Any way yes you can tile straight on to plasterboard, has long has you are using water proof adhesive.
by peter the plumber
Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:30 pm
Forum: Bathrooms, Drainage and Waste Plumbing Forum
Topic: Smell from Soil Pipe
Replies: 1
Views: 6421

I have seen this before; the last time was when they had not put a “uâ€
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