Help For Your Plumbing
Here are some helpful hints to keep your plumbing in good working order: Always try and find the main stopcock to the property is so that it can be isolated if there is an emercency situation. Barking Plumbers always use professional tradesmen. Also make time to find out what other valves are fitted in the […]
Fit a Thermostatic Radiator Valve
Tools. Adjustable Spanner.Wire Wool. TRV.New Connector. PTFE tape. The correct heating controls allow you to keep your home at a comfortable temperature with very little waste of fuel or heat, and it will also so drive down your Co2 emissions and give smaller heating bills. If your home has a system of water-filled pipes and […]
Heat Pump
Heat pumps are very clever appliances, being used to produce heated air and also cooling air in a home or any building. There are inside and outside versions and air to air or air to water types. So, is the heat pump really that good but is it a green appliance? A Barking Plumber knows […]
The Unvented Cylinder
The cylinder known as ‘unvented’ is not very difficult hard to spot, as long as you know what you are looking for. Initially they are always made from copper. They will mostly be covered by an insulation that can either be fibreglass or a foam type of material. It is fitted with a pipe outlet […]
The Butt (Water)
Probably the best type of the water butt could be constructed from the downpipe from your gutter system. Method: Make this by cutting the pipework and run it straight down into the actual water butt. There is a thing called a rain diverter. This bit of kit attaches to the downpipe and through a 90 […]
Renew an Outside Tap
Tools and Materials: 1). Adjustable spanner. 2). PTFE tape. 3). New stop tap. There are many outside taps that have double check valves fitted, however but they quite often failed to work during extreme weather. Regulations now state that every outside tap fitted must have a check valve in the house. Old outside taps were […]