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Yeah sorry, I meant from wall outwards. The current distance between the wall and the centre of the inlet/outlet is 55mm, whereas on the new radiator, the drawing says 79-89mm. I recently had the radiator off the wall and there's no movement on the pipework so it's looking like soldering and...

Although I haven't collected the new radiator, I'm estimating that my pipes are going to be approx 20-30mm too short for connecting a new double rad up where my single used to be. The pipes come through the wall so I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to go about extending them or trying to...

Hi all, I've got a fairly old Valor portable gas heater model number 389 serial 389:43A817 and for whatever reason this morning when I'm actually doing stuff that requires the room to be warmed, the thermocouple seems to have stopped working because although the pilot light lights, as soon as...

Ok, so I spoke to a mate of mine who used to be an Openreach engineer/technician and he said the rule is, you can't move the master socket, but you can remove the faceplate and add an extension in to the back of the socket which for what I want should be fine, so that gets around that bit. As...

Morning all, I'll start by putting your minds at ease and tell you this is not electrical sockets I'm looking to move, but I know it's an electricians bread and butter so you guys will be able to advise best. Basically, I want to move my master telephone socket from our living room to our...

Hi all, I feel incredibly stupid having to ask this considering I've spent the last 5 years looking after 3 complex industrial heating/hot water systems and I'm struggling to even figure out my own basic home set up. As far as domestic systems go, ever since I've understood how to switch a...

Thank you! I've managed to find a local service agent who has offered to have a look at it for me to see what the problem is and he'll give me a price for new seals if I need them. Really appreciate your response on such an old post!

It wasn't leaking. It just had a valve on it that you could open with a wrench but couldn't attach anything to because it was smashed so the water wasn't running at all when I froze it.

That's what I can't find. I've looked around the house for nearly two hours and the only stopcock in a plastic lid that I could find made absolutely no difference whatsoever so I can only assume it goes to somebody else.

I had it lying around, it was the right size for the pipe and I've seen a lot of hose taps fail so wanted some kind of isolation before the hose tap. The freeze kit was a jacket and a 415ml can of Arctic Spray.

Evening all, I've dropped a bit of a bo**ock this afternoon when extending an old pipe that comes out of the ground to use as a hose pipe. I have been completely unable to locate any service valves for it so used a freezing kit to plug it while I cut the broken old tap off it to fit a new...

Could anyone tell me what the brass body of this TRV setup is called please? I've had both parts down to my local plumb centre where I know our plumbing contractor got them, but they don't know what it is or how to order me more of them. They can get the Drayton heads no problem, but...

Yeah that's the thing though I don't have an insulation tester. Might see if I can find a reasonably priced second hand one and slip it into my kit list.

Great! I'll get onto them this afternoon and hopefully get around them trying to wriggle out of sorting it out. Appreciate your help guys!

Sorry that's me calling them the wrong thing. So you reckon it's an insulation fault? I'm guessing it's possible that could happen inside the unit then because I've had the plug apart and everything seems fine and the cable is still in the same condition it came in, so it has to be something...

Hi all, I've had a submersible pump in a small hole in the floor in our cellar for just over a year and last week it just suddenly started tripping the fuses. It's just a normal 240v puddle pump (http://www.clarkeservice.co.uk/manuals/submersible_water_pumps/psp125.pdf) and it's plugged...

Can anyone tell me what is most commonly used for sealing around the edges of UPVC windows? I had assumed it is just silicone, but I'm having real difficulty digging the stuff out from around my windows (it has retracted and there are gaps around all my windows making the house draughty) it...

Quick question and apologies for a bit of brain dumping. I have a pitched roof over my garage so I would like to board the roof space out to use for storage of smaller items that usually clutter my garage up, but because I use the garage for training during winter, I'd also like to insulate...