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Here's a head scratcher - Clicking soil stack. New bathroom, corner stack and the capping of one waste pipe and re-purposing another - all of a sudden the soil stack now starts to click when hot water flows into it. I am aware it's expansion with the HW hitting the stack but no matter what I...

Just a word to the mods - https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/whats-this-part.603068/ I don't believe the question has anything to do with gas, I'm sure what the OP is referring to is the flow/return from/to the main HEX. Not too sure as I'm not very familiar with these boxes but It's definitely...

Folks .... The house has europanel walls and the bathroom is being renovated. Is there any wooden internal structure/frame to these panels, apart from the cardboard honeycomb? I've just take off a load of tiles and most of the wall is fine but I cant get the old tile adhesive off of it and...

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Well, I always knew customer service and basic professionalism was getting worse but this take the biscuit. Call at 9.30pm last night, regular customer on, her 83 yr old mum (who's on her own) just had a new boiler swap done. Took them a month to get to her and then took them 3 days to put an...

Since the thread has now been locked, can I ask admin that the the advice that a WB CDI can have the case DIY removed to replace the mechanical clock be removed please. That is not safe advice. As far as the WB Greenstar 28i junior, which @johnny2007 posted a picture of, it should have a case...

OOo... remind me not to call the professionals @ checkatrade How can they suggest that a cold spot at the bottom of a radiator would be air, given that the colder air space will be at the top?? Last I checked air always rises...

Ideally need to use PP as a high chemical resistance is required but as it has to go underfloor and will be subject to a vacuum (approx 25kPa - 1/4bar) i'd like to avoid compression if at all possible. Not looking to outlay for a heat/fusion kit for a one off job. Any pro's had any luck with...

Folks, Moved to a new house, it has one of these installed. I can't get it to set properly, ever time I try to set it has a zone 4 red led and it won't arm. I disconnected the PIR that is connected to zone 4 but it still has a zone 4 LED. I have been through the Installation manual and it...

Anyone used these in those hard to reach places? Any good?

Do me a favour but is it just Plumbing or do the other forums use an American English spell check too?? Really annoying when I know I've spelt something in correct English just for the spell check to try and bastardise what I've written!! Even this paragraph has 3 mistakes according to the...

Need to check something with you central heating aficionados :) Pal has an Ariston Micrcombi - http://www.ariston.com/uk/Trade/media/files/629_microCombi_Installation.pdf, I know I can hear the groans from here :) and has got a Drayton LP111 timeswitch -...

Not sure if anyone was recently concerned about the new regulations being brought in this December about the need for anyone taking scrap metal to a merchants, in our case scrap copper/brass/steel, would need a licence to do this. If you were like me thinking you would have to go and get a...

Anyone used the Tubby set of products for re-enameling baths?

Hi there, Just looking for any recommendattions for the best way to seal old sash windows to red sandstone. I have sash windows and all around the frame it had been sealed by what looks like a red type of mortar. This is now crumbling and cracking and missing in various places. I aim to...

Hi there, i'm a newby here :) and just looking to confirm a few points with the wiring for a new cooker/hob from the wealth of expertise that seems to inhabit this forum. Just about to start my training for - Part p (defined scope) domestic electrical qualification I've looked around many...