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Hi all My combi boiler has been turned on after being off for a few months, and it all seemed OK apart from the pressure being low on both hot and cold. Then it turned itself off, with a red LED next to the gas indicator coming on. Is there anything I can check before i call someone out? Cheers

I can't bury pipes in my wall (tanked basement) and need a mixer shower which can be surface mounted, ie have the pipes to it and itself mounted to the shower wall. I popped into Plumbase just now to ask whether they knew of one, but they didn't. Does anyone know where i can get one of these...

Hi all. My scenario goes as follows: We're fitting a bathroom in a basement, tanked with concrete floor and ceiling. Limited height means I have had to sink a macerator into the concreted floor & then cut a gully for the shower waste to get my shower drain angle as I can't raise the tray...

Hi all We are in the process of renevating an old farm, which has considerable damp. We are going to use Izonil screed and waterproof plater on the walls, and will try and do as much as possible ourselves. I have removed all the old plaster from the walls, and am beginning to work on...

Hi all I've looking for a way to connect a 22mm macerator output in a basement to a 22mm pipe leading away under ther floor of the ground floor. My problem is that the pipe the macerator needs to link to is on the otherside of a 0.5m reinforced concrete wall. I can go over it and under the...

Hi all I’m converting my basement into a studio flat, and was originally going to macerate the waste and pump it away. I’ve since found out that there is a soil drain cover and gully outside the studio flat door; so I’m now going to kango a trench in the floor to go to this point for all my...

Hi all, I am converting my basement into a studio flat for my Dad and would like some advice over my options for hot water. At the moment the house boiler is down there; and we were thinking of moving it upstairs and running all the hot water on electric. He will have a shower, washing...

Hi all. I have a basement that has been wired as part of the ring from the room above. It has a combi-boiler (fed from a FCU) and 2 double 13A sockets unused except when the mower comes out (Via a plug in RCD at the moment). I need to redecorate the basement and was going to replace the surface...

Hi all, What's best (£100 odd) for drilling through noggins and joists? -I've never used an angle drill (newbi alert) and was wondering whether a cordless 14.4v would be able to do it. I also am a bit confused as to whether Ryobi are re-badged Black and Decca and if so are worth buying. I'm...

Hi all, What would you say are your essential, then useful, then preferred weird and wonderful tools? Thinking 3 cases; bloody heavy one that goes in with you; reasonably heavy one in the van; and weird bag of stuff you get when you need to.. Looking forward to these answers, –especially on...