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hi, looking for some advise for decorating on moisture resistant plasterboard. it will be in a bathroom and the plan is to use lining paper that will then be emulshoned. thanks.

I have noticed that when the washing machine is running or the toilet stops filling that there is a clunk in the hot water pipe. hot water is from a combi boler and the cold is on the mains. any idea to what is the cause. thanks

Tthis new basin mixer has a pair of flexable tap tails. they are only about ten millemetreson the outside diamater. can I reduce the hot and cold supplie pipes down to the same size. it would be for a distence of about 8 foot. the hot is from a combi boler and the cold is from the main. thanks

Hi. there was a banner advertisment recently fo a dating site. does nayone here remenber what the site was called or havw alink to it. thanks.

Hi. Could someone please advise me if this product would be suitable for use on a wocester bosch 24cdi combi boiler approx 10/11 years old. than ks .

I've been looking to buy a new television. it all seems a bit confusing, plasma or lcd? 1080? 50hz or 100hz? or does any of it really mattr? are the differences in picture quality really noticeable? what about reliability? any makes that are best avoid. would appreciate any advice ...

can the pump in a wocester bosch 24 cdi boiler - about 11 years old - be replaced with a new grunfoss 15-60 pump. thanks in antisipatyion

My niece and her boyfriend want to do some work in the loft. this would entail moving the existing elson tank from it's current position to one end of the loft. can the gravity supply pipes be run horizontally to the new position or is the idea a non- starter? .thanks

Hi thaere. My mate has a problem with the overflow on his central heating tank. we had a looksee today and what seems to be happening is this. when the tankf for the hot water starts to fill the ballcock starts to bounce up and down. this seems to be cause a little water to enter the heating...

radiators were not heating up. suspected sludge build up. however turned hot tap on and central heating flow pipe got red hot. could this be a diverter valve problem .the boiler is a Baxi 105e. thanks.

Hi all. looking for a mixer shower to run off a gravity system, no pump. what sort of features should i be looking for? is there any noteable difference between the exposecd valve showers and the bar mixers? Thanks in anticipation.

Could someone please advise the cause of this problem. Drayton RT111 trv, one of three fitted back in january. is it just duff or could something else be causing it? thanks.

my niece has a problem with water constantly running into her toilet bowl.. the toilet has a "siamp single flush valve" which we cannot seem to obtain locally. would another type of flushing valve be suitable or must we stay with a "siamp"? thanks in anticipation.

If I was to get an electrician to do all the necessary work up to the positiooin of the shower isiolating swittch, would i then be able to make the final connection to the shower unit at a later date?

Hi all. My parents have a back boiler on a BG service contract. For years the service engineers pointed out that the vent in the floor was too small. This year we corrected the problem in time for their visit. This year they have crabbed the fact that the pipes through the wall from the boiler...

We have a bath/shower mixer, one where the handset rests on a cradle. over the past month, when having a shower the temperature has been too hot to bear. it appears as if more hot water than cold is getting to the shower head. When on the bath filling setting, the cold water easily overpowers...

A female aquaintance is having problems with her toilet not flushing properly. The siphon has been replaced twice in recent months by a local plumber but when flushed the cistern only half empties. The cistern is marked as having a 7.5ltr capacity. The top of the siphon is level with the mark on...

On a system heated by gravity flow from a back boiler what sort of temperature would you expect the hot water to reach. The hot water storage in question is an Elson tank with no thermostat other than what is on the boiler. We measured the HW temp today and it was only 53 degrees. I'm enquiring...

A neighbour has an existing (faulty) gas cooker in an alcove which must have housed some sort of range cooker at some time. A guy who come to look at the cooker said that if she wanted a new one, he did not think it would be able to go in the same place, although he did not have the correct...

visited a lady friend this evening and found that her gas fire had gone out but there was still gas coming out of the burner. it's a council owned property so before i go ringing them up on her behalf I was wondering if this model should have some sort of device to cut off the gas supply in this...