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Just a quick question following on from a previous post. I am intending to tile onto a concrete floor with minimal adhesive residue from the previous floor tiles. I have been advised to seal the floor with SBR and I would like the best advice for the ratio of SBR to water ratio. I think it...

Hello All, I am planning on retiling my bathroom with porcelain tiles 600mm x 300mm roughly 4sqm. The floor is concrete and roughly 22 years old with no hairline cracks or any cracks through the existing ceramic tiles. I managed to remove the old ceramic tiles 300mm x 300mm and scrape the old...

Hello everyone, Just a quick question. I am installing the first level of tiles around my shower tray. I intend to leave a gap of about 3-4mm between the tile and shower tray. Should this be filled with grout or in my mind silicone which would allow some flexibility between the shower tray and...

Hi everyone, I have started to decorate the exterior of my house and I noticed the exterior gloss paint has crazed on the window sills and masonary stone work around front door. On the larger flat areas such as the window sills I used the blow torch to strip back to the masonary. I have now come...

Hello everyone, I am thinking of installing this in my new bath and wanted to see if anyone had any experience of this unit and I also have a few questions in general. 1. The unit swivels at the base for easy connection to the waste pipe. Do you think it may leak after a few years where it...

Hi everyone, my washer developed a fault recently which I think I managed to trace to the pcb. The motor would struggle to turn the drum in the first part of the wash cycle. The more clothes the worse it would be but worked perfectly during rinses and spins. Having eliminated a slipping belt...

A months back the a breaker on my consumer unit tripped. I flipped the breaker back and approx 20mins later I heard a pop sound from a socket. I removed the faceplate and could see the earth wire was blackened and a fair amount of blue dust around the earth wire at the point where the white...

I have a old(ish) Moffat oven. It's very basic in that it has just the Selector knob Timer and Temp knob. The oven is seldom used, the last time was probably 4 years ago. When I came home today the single and only neon on/off light was flickering even though the oven was off. I turned the...

I was trying to repair my Aqualisa shower valve but the rusted screws in the body proved too hard to remove and as such I damaged the body. The valve was attached to the wall and passed through the Kubex shower cubicle. Not sure why they didn't use a exposed shower valve in the first place. I...

Hi, I had a problem with the underground drainage in my kitchen which I have now fixed. I needed to dig through the kitchen floor tiles and then through 4 inches of concrete and cut through the blue dpm. Then another 4 inches of soil until I reached the leaking pipe. I have excavated a small...

I have 8 double rads and 4 single on two floors. The pump is a Wilo 50 5m located on the top floor and there is a Honeywell 3 way diverter valve. I have X100 inhibitor in the system. The boiler is on the ground floor. Rads take about 45 mins to heat up at which point I can hear a couple air...

Hello All, I would appreciate some advice. My MCB ( sockets ) tripped. I reset it and it tripped again after 10 mims. Then it started tripped straight away. The MCB controls the sockets in my kitchen. I called a electrician who told me in two minutes that the entire kitchen would need...

Following on from a previous post about the installation of a restrictor ( which works fine ) I have another problem. After installing the restrictor and refilling the system I seem to have air in the heat exchanger which will not go away. The boiler heats all rads fine and hot water is...

Following on from a previous post, I would be grateful if someone could answer a question. I have a Potterton Profile 80e running 12 rads and the problem is that when the hot water cylinder switches on the temp in the rads drops off to almost cold. At the same time the boiler starts to...