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Hi again lads and lasses, following on from another post of mine, i have now got a new pair of cartridges for my bath taps .... So far so good eh However, No Way can i turn off the stop cock in the airing cupboard, it only turns barely a quarter of turn and that is with great effort, it feels...

My missus who suffers from arthritis has just started to complain about the cold bath tap being too stiff to turn, it is a ceramic disc quarter turn type made by BRISTAN Si thought Easy to fix, get some new handles/levers with more leverage. So i go to unscrew the handle retaining screw and...

hi all, it is me, back again. about a month ago i thought i had a banging noise in my airing cupboard, well, i was wrong. the noise is in my Loft and it IS coming from the Cold Water tank, i got up in the loft to do something else, why have lofts got so much crap in them ?, i thought i...

Hi chaps, for a long time now i have had a fairly powerful Sony hi fi, which has been connected up to a Switch which enables me to control 2 pairs of decent speakers, eg, 2 on, 4 on, the other 2 on. However the Sony HiFi has just died, the CD Changer got all jammed up, so looking for another...

hi all, i just had my CH system "power flushed", so i know there is no sludge anywhere and there is no air in the system anywhere, the pump is nearly new and runs as sweet as a nut. I have the heating on all through the day and everything is nice and quiet, but sitting in my lounge watching...

hi all, my Mum is moving out of a council house into a council flat where they dont have GAS, so i have given away her gas cooker to someone via. the Freecycle website, they are coming to collect it very soon, i went to DIS-connect it earlier today and i found the Bayonet fitting wouldnt come...

hi all, my mum has to buy an Electric cooker as she is moving into an Electric only flat in an old peoples home. This will happen in about 3 weeks time, i have seen the cover on the wall, where the cooker connects to the mains, am i correct in thinking that after turning off the power at the...

Hi all, with the winter nearly on us i have switched on my Gas Central Heating Radiators, at the beginning of the year i did introduce some Fernox into the system to CLEAN it out, after which i drained that out and introduced a Fernox Rust Inhibitor. Over the last few weeks i have had a new...

Hi all, i have a question to ask a qualified Gas Safe man, are there any around ?. Although my question might be so far Over The Top that anybody could tell me, No Way ! I am thinking of getting a Flueless Gas Fire, i have read that an Air Brick should be fitted in the outside wall of the...

hi all. in our lounge we have a Gas Fire that we have never used in 30 years (it is about 35 years old) my missus wants to get a new one "it looks too old fashioned". So i am wondering, should i replace it with a Gas or Electric fire, is there any information available regards which is more...

Hi all, After our not very good summer, i switched on our gas central heating today for the first time now it is getting colder etc. and ... guess what ..... it didnt bloody well work ... so i called a plumber out, telling him i suspect the three way valve in the airing cupboard, i then had...

hi chaps i heard something today, i wonder if in fact it is the way to do it. a plastic door that has dropped so that it clonks on the top corner when you close it is easily fixed, by removing the glass panel, jacking up the bottom corner and then putting the glass back in but putting shims...

hi all, i have a friend who has moved into a new office, he has a problem with the front door, it doesnt fully open !, the door closer, (see picture), fouls on a brick column. he has asked me IF it is easily moved ?, i have never tackled one of these things before, it looks as if it is simply...

hi all, my daughter has just moved into a rented house, it has no gas, for her hot water she has an electric immersion heater in the water cylinder, which is in the airing cupboard. She says the water is too hot coming out of the taps, i looked all around the cylinder looking for a thermostat...

hi chaps, my missus decided she wanted some vinyl floor covering in the bathroom to replace a very shabby carpet. removed the carpet ok, under which is a layer of hardboard over the floor boards, the hardboard IS NOT perfectly flat having been down a long time, anyway i proceeded to fit all...

having recently had to call a plumber in, he had to remove the Air seperator which was all bunged up with sludge, the plumber said we didnt need it anyway !!!. At the same time he fitted a 2nd pump i had been given, the original one was very noisy. Now i notice that sometimes this "new"...

i am in a mess after emptying my radiators, i got some chemical stuff for cleaning the system through to get rid of the sludge and stuff. i made sure the ball cock thingie was off in the loft, i drained the radiators 4 upstairs and 3 downstairs by putting a hosepipe on the drain pipe of the...

hi all, i have two seperate "funny" noises coming from my airing cupboard, which i have now emptied of all the undies and socks etc. etc. the wife is doing her nut. One of the noises is definitely coming from the pump, i have been given a nearly new pump which i am going to fit this weekend...

hi all, i have volunteered to decorate my daughters bedroom, first job was to remove the wallpaper in preparation for putting Emulsion on the walls. I have hit a snag though, on one wall, (which was the wall involved in making the room bigger several years ago), this new plaster on...

hi all, I called in a heating engineer on monday morning first thing, my gas central heating didnt work, but plenty of hot water !. he very quickly removed this valve thingie off of a pipe junction near the pump in the airing cupboard, he said he could supply and fit a new one on friday...