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My son’s moving into a rented flat that has a mira minimal erd fitted. He’s 6’2” and when stood under the drencher his head touches it. Apart from smashing the tiles to lift the shower valve is there another solution to this ? P.S. there’s at least 4” between the drench pipe and the ceilin. cheers.

I have a mira select shower in a cubicle right next to cylinder cupboard but the pressure is rubbish, i plan to fit a pump and surrey flange in the cylinder cupboard. Would it be ok to take two tees off the pump to another shower in another bathroom (pipes would go into the loft and back down to...

I'm having trouble with birds in my chimney, can i just fit a bird grill to the pot or do i need to fit a cowl. Its an inset gas fire.

Just moved house, its been empty for a year and a half. Water was off and heating drained (vokera linea) Anyway, added x100, filled rads and turned on power, all was well for 30 secs then locked out (overheat) Pretty sure its a sticking pump (i thought it span when i turned and bled pump) any...

We had an outside wall rendered last summer(25ft x 12ft), after about 6 months it started coming away at the top, now its flaking even more, the guy who did it cant be contacted so i'm going to have a go repairing it myself. What kind of plaster/sand etc do i need and how do you seal the top of...

Can you still get burner and injector as spares for an ideal classic nf. Also roughly how old is this boiler ? Cheers.

3600 x 1040 divided by the time in seconds for one revolution of meter dial. Then divide this by 3412 to give KW gross. When filling in the benchmark and the gas rate is required in metres cubed per hour as opposed to KW how do you convert the KW to metres cubed/hour ?

Not sure what they're called but the plastic parts inside the drum (agitator bits ?) have snapped off, can they be bought as spares and whats they're proper name or do i have to get a new drum ? Cheers in advance.

I have a pine hi-fi cabinet which is waxed and varnished, i want to strip it down to bare wood and have taken off the stain with stripper but when i try to sand it the wax just blocks up the sandpaper (a coarse sheet lasts about 10 seconds then its smooth) is there any tips to overcome this or...

Installed a Main 24 he today, commisioned it and everythings ok. While showing the homeowner how to use it someone turned the hot tap on upstairs and i noticed the pressure dial went up by half a bar, when the tap was closed it went back to 1.5 bar (CH had been on for a ten mins) ive never...

Hi, i'm a plumber on a long contract installing combi boilers and would like to get into fault finding and repairing them (knees starting to crumble) i know its gonna take a while training etc but can anyone recomend a good book or website showing how to use a multimeter (i basically know about...

Hi, when i open the kitchen tap on my vaillant turbomax 242 the boiler does'nt fire up, if i leave this tap on and open the basin tap it comes on, could this be the flowswitch or possibly diverter diaphragm or just filters needing cleaning, P.S. heating ok

Fitted a new combi today existing cooker pipework was 15mm chrome soldered to yorkshire elbows, pipework tested ok but never came accross chrome soldered on a cooker pipe before, as i was the last one to touch the gas is it ok to leave this chrome in or should it be replaced :?: By the way i...