Plumber / Plumbers / Plumbing - Show us your pipes

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Are you a gas safety registered thing Plumber?
I'm in need of some work/advice- my hot water pressure from my combi Boiler has dropped massively, pressure thing is fine, not sure what the issue could be but keen to get it fixed.

GS Engineer in Brighton?

Our hob had to be disconnected today due to a leak in a steel pipe between appliance and meter.

The oven the previous owners left us is fucking disgusting so keen to get the hob working asap.

If you get stuck drop me a pm. I've a few pals who work in that field down there. Not gas guys but they may know some...

Ta. Emailed someone this eve on the gas safe register who lives about 10 doors down from me. He's calling tomorrow. Not entirely sure what this sort of thing would cost. My understanding is it's either replacing a stretch of pipe or repairing a valve in it but the Ofgem guys wouldn't say as beyond their remit (sigh). Also want the meter moved from one wall (inside a cupboard) to another wall - about 2 feet away so I can knock down the wall and extend the kitchen but that may have to wait.

Fuck this home owning lark.

Would the replacement of damaged gas pipe leading from meter to hob require a purge and relight? And if so, would it be reasonable to charge 230 for parts and labour for this service?

Solution: Get an electric hob. See you in the food thread...

Purge and relight. Do you live in a flat?

How long is the pipe?

32 amp electrical supply?

Semi detached. Meter about 1.5m / 2m from hob but goes under floorboards past a cupboard and comes up behind kitchen units. I'm going to tear the units (and cupboard wall) out in due time in order to re-arrange the kitchen but just want to be able to cook in the meantime.

I've seemingly missed all the delivery dates for a new electric oven/hob (apart from the 24th but what electrician is going to come and install my oven on Christmas eve?!) so I'm just going to get a cheap portable hob for now and use that and the existing electric oven (after I've purged 40 years of previous owners effluence from it) until I rearrange kitchen / install a dual fuel cooker in the new year.

Want to borrow a gas canister camping hob?

Oven pride does wonders to clean an oven.

Just going to buy one but thanks :)

Previous owner left a whopping great gas canister in the garden helpfully...

ahoy, need some plumbing advice.

I have no water from the hot tap.
Cold is fine, mains and storage, but nowt from the hot tap.
Have an immersion heater, and I think it is full.

turned off the water to change the toilet filler, but when i turned it all on, no hot. most odd.

what have i done?

@ dethbeard
Where did you turn the water off? At the incoming main or somewhere else?

all the places.
and turned them back on, or so I thought.

Have cold in abundance, but nae hot.

its not that its cold from the hot, but an absence of water from the hot.

Options:

You have forgotten to turn something back on

A shitty gate valve has got stuck closed, sometimes the heads spin but aren't doing anything

You have drained the cold cylinder to do the work and some debris has got into the cold feed to the cylinder. This can be a bitch.

You have an airlock, this is v common on gravity systems.

i think its the gate valve.

If i nip the bolt looser a little, it moves more than when the bolt is tight, but no water still.

Solutions:
Double check everything you shut is open

Check if gate valves have opened and can't be opened anymore (head isn't just spinning)

Go in loft and check if large cold tank is full of crap at bottom, possibly blocked feed.

Hose onto kitchen cold tap, backfill a hot outlet with mains water to dislodge air.

Call a qualified plumber.

Gate valves are shit, replace with full bore lever valves.

Wife has some sort of home emergency cover with her bank account.
Coming tomorrow.
I'll be at work, leaving the mother in law at home to wait.

You are welcome :-)

Didn't realise there was a plumbing thread on here.

The cold water pipe to my shower is leaking. It's a flexible hose and there seems to be some sort of join in it which is dripping and leaking to downstairs. The issue is that the bath is tiled in so I can't reach where the joint is. Am I missing some way of getting access under a tiled bath or am I buggered?

It's not an urgent issue as I've turned off the cold water to the shower using the isolation valve but having to regulate the shower temperature using the boiler is a bit of a ballache.

Can you access via the other side of the wall or is it external? Easier to repair a plasterboard wall than a tiled one.

The other side is the kitchen, also tiled ...

A new bathroom is, hopefully, planned for this year. Until then I guess I'll just continue adjusting the boiler temperature every few weeks.

Was the gate valve. Plumber rocked up, gave it a good twist and opened it, working water.

Didn't cost anything, so all good.

Thanks for all your helps!