Homeowner Advice Guides

Our advice guides have been produced to provide basic information to homeowners on a range of plumbing and heating topics. The guides have been written specifically for the homeowner in a user friendly language. You can bookmark this page for future reference or print off individual guides and retain them for future use. Please click on the document icon to open the document, or right click 'save as'.

PLEASE NOTE: This page is under construction and will be updated soon!

Your guide to selecting the right installer

This guide provides basic information on selecting the right plumbing and heating installer for your work requirements.

• Installer selection

Your guides to safety and emergencies

These guides have been prepared to assist homeowners in ensuring the continued safety of plumbing and heating systems and the actions to take in the event of an emergency situation.

• Equipment servicing requirements
• Preparing for cold weather
• Dealing with a gas leak
  
• Dealing with a water leak
  
• Protection against carbon monoxide
  

Your guides to conventional plumbing and heating systems

These guides have been produced to assist homeowners in their basic understanding of plumbing and heating systems.

• Types of central heating system
• The basics of corrosion in central heating systems
• Legal requirements to conserve energy in heating
  
• Conserving energy in heating and hot water systems
  
• Types of hot water system
  
• Types of cold water system
  
• The basics of sanitation pipework
  

Your guides to environmental plumbing and heating systems

These guides have been produced to assist homeowners in their basic understanding of a range of newer technologies that are being used in plumbing and heating systems.

• Heating hot water using solar energy
• Heat pumps and their use in the home
• Producing heat from biomass appliances
  
• Use of micro CHP in the home
  
• Use of combined environmental technologies
  
• Use of recycled water in the home