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I fitted a Salamander CT50+Xtra pump for our shower just over 4 years ago and it has worked very well since. This morning, though, it is not pumping the water properly when I turn the shower on - it just makes a humming noise and the shower has lost all force. I have checked to see whether the...

My kitchen sink mixer (hot) tap is dripping, so I presume I need to replace a washer. I've not done this before on a mixer tap so I don't really know what I need to undo to get at the washer. This is what the tap looks like: https://www.dropbox.com/s/poqx6n8iaqta0du/taps.jpg?dl=0 Thanks!

I've been getting to know the plumbing in my house a bit better in the last couple of weeks. One of the things which struck me as an oddity when I first spotted it a while back was that the cold water tank in the loft has two ball valves (one of which I had to replace recently because of a...

I'm trying to install a replacement shower pump. To do so, because there are no isolation valves on the inlet pipes, I believe I have to a) empty the cold water tank in the loft, and b) empty the hot water cylinder. I've drained off the loft tank OK, and have tied up the ball valves so it...

I have a Stuart Turner ShowerMate twin shower pump which has suddenly stopped working properly. It stops and starts and even when it's running the pressure is low. Because this happened a few days after I replaced a ball valve in the header tank in the loft, a process during which some debris...