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In a building, a room is any space enclosed within a number of walls to which entry is possible only by a door or other dividing structure that connects it either to a passageway, to another room, or to the outdoors, that is large enough for several persons to move about, and whose size, fixtures, furnishings, and sometimes placement within the building support the activity to be conducted in it.

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    Emergency Stop Buttons in Boiler Rooms

    We are from Alberta, and I own an electrical company. I have been asked by a BC Mechanical P. Eng. to install an emergency STOP button at the man-door to the boiler room. It's intent is to 'halt' the operation of the boilers in the room should there be an emergency. He is demanding that I do...
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    Football Changing Rooms

    Hi all, I'm searching for some advice about replacing a shower pump that supplies 8 showers (4 in each room) in two football changing rooms. The setup is a hot water cylinder type with a positive head, there is an adjustable hot/cold water mixer before the pump. The current pump is a Monsoon...
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    Vokera Linea 25HE - rooms never reaching desired temp

    Boiler : Vokera Linea 25HE Wireless Programmable Roomstat I seem to have having major issues getting rooms up to a desirable temperature since moving into this flat. It's an old 1920s tenement style building (ground floor 1 bedroom flat) with very high ceilings. Thick brick walls external and...
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    UFH No Heat in Two Rooms

    Hope you can help. We currently have no heat in two rooms and I am sure they are on the same loop. The actuator is rising so I assume that the thermostat is working. I assume therefore that it is the actuator or air in the loop. I have a couple of questions: - If the head on the actuator...
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    Boilers for HMO (4 bed rooms)

    Unlike my last question – which was just of interest, thisone we are going to actually do, one way or the other. We (me and my dad) have just bought a house that we will eitherdoing up and selling as a family home or converting it into a HMO (so 4 bedrooms with en-suite in each –...
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    Radiator thermostats override room thermostat

    I have a Viallant VRT 330 wall thermostat in my lounge and have comet dect thermostats on my radiators. The rad stats can be remotely operated from my phone, They connect to a Fritzbox router. I am often not home for days at a time, so the timer function on the VRT is not ideal. The idea is...
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    Plant Rooms

    Hi Everyone! Im new to this forum and its my first thread! My name is Alonso i'm a gas safe engineer, I've been running my company for a good few years now. Ive completed courses such as NVQ l1-3 i'm gas safe, but i am struggling to find any courses or training for plant rooms ( for the...
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    15mm cold supply feeding two bath rooms

    On a house that is plumbed up in 15mm pipe for the cold mains. Feeding a bathroom and an ensuit next to each other. Would the shower in the ensuite not likely struggle when some one is using the bath in the bathroom next door. Are both feed of the same 15mm pipe.
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    Not enough Heat

    We have recently had oil fired central heating installed. All radiators have TRVs. We also have a system thermostat inthe hall, set at 25 degrees. When the heating is first switched on all radiators becomehot or very hot but our rooms and the main thermostat reach only 19/21 degrees.After around...
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    Not enough heat

    We have recently had oil fired central heating installed. All radiators have TRVs. We also have a system thermostat in the hall, set at 25 degrees. When the heating is first switched on all radiators become hot or very hot but our rooms and the main thermostat reach only 19/21 degrees. After...
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    Wet UFH-failing to circulate

    Hi. Complete plumbing novice here so please go easy, especially as I've tried to get a plumber in but nobody seems interested(Chepstow)! Hoping for some advice re my Uponor wet ufh system. My whole house has ufh, installed about 7 years ago. Basically, everything fine up until last weekend when...
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    Hotel rooms

    Whilst I am sure that we can all agree that cleanliness is a good thing in a hotel room... ...at what point does the overpowering smell of disinfectant lead one to the inevitable conclusion that the last occupant was dismembered?
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    Underfloor Heating - Cold Rooms

    Hi all, New to this site and looking for some advice. We built our house 11 years ago and had underfloor heating installed upstairs and down. I have been more than happy with the system in general, although it was sore on oil for the first year or two until the house was fully dried out. Our...
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    Refurb underfloor heating

    I'm wanting to put underfloor heating in my new property, in the two downstairs rooms. Would you guys dig up the existing screed, put down celotex, uf, then rescreed or just do an overlay system. I'm not bothered by mess or initial cost, I just want the most efficient/ effective system.
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    14 ensuite rooms, 3 x 300 litre unvented cylinder's, BOILERS ????

    hi, I have been asked to finish a guest house which has 14 unsuite shower rooms. the old builders and plumbers have been kicked off for being too slow. the owner just wants it all finished now. there is a 28mm hot feed, 22mm secondary return and a 22mm cold all already go to each room which I...
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    Old Myson Round Top radiator outputs

    Hi all, Does anyone here have, by any chance, a list of outputs for the older myson roundtop radiators. The ones without the convector fins? A Landlord i do work for has been told by a damp "specialist" that the heating is undersized which is why there's black mold on the walls and windows...
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    Wall insulation or plumbing first?

    Hi, I wonder if you can help us. We have an enclosed outhouse comprising of two small rooms which we want to renovate into a utility. One of the rooms was an enclosed outside toilet and after a particularly bad winter and an open window the already poor plumbing was destroyed. We want to...
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    Boiler and 8 rads in church rooms....

    just been to look at a job which BG quoted 6k to install. Just the boiler and a bout 10metres of pipework to cylinder. No rads. They have also put in a 1st floor which they want underfloor heating in. gutted as the gas pipework is to big for me. I remember on here some where where a guy needed...
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    Underfloor Heating - Two rooms with one circuit?

    Hello all, I am currently renovating my first home and as its just a shell now I thought it would be a good idea to install a wet underfloor heating system. The house is very small and the downstairs is completely open plan, some 25m2 and the bathroom is less than 10m2. Would there be any...
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    Radiator sizing requirement advice

    Hi all Please forgive the no doubt easy query, I'm a little confused ... We're hoping to move into a bungalow in the next few months with an extremely antiquated central heating system. It's going to need a new boiler and rads I'm trying to work out radiator size requirements but have so far...
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