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An external vessel can be connected, but it is better to have a central heating plumber to check on it as well as the connections of your heating system. Otherwise, if you do it on your own, you might loosen some wirings and mechanisms that might prove to be more costly in the end.

It is always good to have a trusted plumber to do plumbing maintenance in your house. It is always good to engage someone that can do electrical plumbing, central heating plumbing and the like. Otherwise, it is very difficult to orient a new plumber especially if you call them for emergency work.

Yes it’s quite normal in some areas of the country where there are lots of terraced houses to have the boiler installed in the loft, simply because that’s the only place where it can go. It means that you have to have access to the loft in case anything goes wrong and the plumber needs to get up...

I’m not casting aspersions here but it does seem slightly odd to me that he chose to overhaul his plumbing system when there was no-one in the property - doesn’t it? I get the feeling from what you say that he was waiting for an opportunity to do what he wanted but perhaps knew it wasn’t right...

There are a few things for you to consider here, first to check if the wall is really ok to come down and what kind of pressure it will have on the surrounding walls. You don’t say how old your property is? The problem with older houses is that they tend to throw up unexpected problems as they...