Recent content by monkeygirl

pump was bought and installed by plumber not me to solve our dire water pressure problem. hose has been checked and is clear. Header tank is in loft above airing cupboard, pump is located next to hot water tank on floor of airing cupboard, so must be over 600mm above shower height -...

pump has been installed and working ok since June, why all of a sudden does the installation need changing? confused :? Shower has two heads with a diverter, one large fixed overhead and second smaller height adjustable one.

hi we have a cold water header tank and hot water cylinder feeding into a Salamander shower pump. This then goes to our thermostatic mixer shower. We've had a few issues with the shower - have to turn the temp to 0 before water will flow but lately have also had to lower the shower head...

thats what I thought (honest!) but was slightly concerned that I may then have an issue getting the enclosure to fit properly due to the extra depth of the tiles.

Hi fitting new shower and am wondering which is the correct order to finish the job: do I: 1. fit enclosure then tile or 2. tile then fit enclosure? cheers! : )

forgot to mention, cold water supply to bathroom is direct mains, cheers!

hi we are planning to install a new shower but have a terrible cold water supply. It's shared with the neighbours so we regularly loose pressure to our supply. We recently had new central heating & boiler fitted, we couldn't have a combi as pressure was too low so now have boiler with...

but if i buy a new hose I'll have to open up the back of the machine to fit it won't i?

Hi unpacked my new integrated dishwasher last night to install and discovered a split in the waste hose. As it's so close to xmas and the likely hood of getting it repaired/replaced under warrenty before then is nil is there any thing I can do to temporarily fix it ? Him indoors...

have just realised I've not explained fully so your answer makes sense! the wood liner is behind the first row of bricks so will not be visible when the window goes in (our walls are double brick with no cavity), it will be plasterboarded over after the window is fitted.

any reason why?

Hi we've just unbricked a window opening in our victorian house with the intention of fitting a new UPVC window to match the rest of the house. unfortunately we've now got a big hole as blocks were used and extended into the rest of the brick work. is it ok to put a wood lining in...

It's not possible to access it from above unfortunately, was hoping we might just be able to join the wires where it's easily accessible

Hi we're moving a light switch as we've blocked up the doorway the old switch was next too. The problem we have is the wiring is now too short to reach the new switch position, we can't replace it from the start as that would mean removing chunks of the ceiling and lost of expensive...

thank you oh wise sages of the combi bolier world! yes "plumber" is a fully qualified Corgi registered "heating and gas engineer" (quicker to type plumber though!). I will watch him like a hawk and annoy him intensely with my girly suggestions of how to do his job - any ideas how to ask...