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Hi everyone, it's time for my new kitchen to be finished off. One of the items is a new swan-neck chrome finish monoblock tap for the new undermount sink. Now, I've been searching around on this forum for quite a bit, and there's lots of posts about these taps and their problems, most of...

Hi everyone, I've never encountered anything like this before and wondered if anyone can explain what's causing it? My house has mains water pressure to all the cold taps, the shower and toilet, the cold water storage tank and the heating open system header tank. The cold storage tank seems to...

Hi everyone. I have a very old central heating system which has been repeatedly modified since inception in the early 60's. We have a Crane Cavalier cast iron boiler (modified to natural gas!) on the ground floor which still works very well, although with some kettleing. Some demented...

Hi folks, I have a very old (1960's) open vent heating system with three circuits: ground floor second floor and domestic hot water cylinder. My practice has been to switch off the heating in the summer, and allow the thermosyphon effect to give us hot water only, and there is a gate valve...

Hi everyone. I went and bought myself one of those Lidl drill stands yesterday, and I'm very happy with it. Being only an occasional DiYer, I think it will help me out on some jobs and I'd never justify £100s for a real pillar drill. However, my old mains hammer drill (£15 in the 70's I...

Hi everyone, I'm new here although I've been reading the forums for some time. Sorry if this has been raised before - my search didn't find what I'm looking for. My house was built in the 1960s and is on clay soil. The foundations go deeper than I've excavated, so I'm not sure of their...