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Hi I am installing laminate flooring in a bedroom and there is a large gap between the plasterboard and floor. I've removed the skirting as I'm going to replace it and it will hide the expansion gap. I want to fill it somehow so i can use spacers to get the correct expansion gap and be able to...

IMG_0070 by Bonedry posted 28 Aug 2015 at 5:13 PMIMG_0069 by Bonedry posted 28 Aug 2015 at 5:13 PMIMG_0068 by Bonedry posted 28 Aug 2015 at 5:13 PM Hi Just got home to a soaked under the sink cupboard and found the combi-guard is leaking at the head where the cartridage goes in. A plumber...

My parents have had a GEC Nightstor for over 20 years and it has been a good system. Sadly the system was flushed out and after that there was banging from the pipes and it eventually cut out. They paid to have it flushed again and it worked for 11 days then same problem and nothing plumber...

Oh it goes on.......... I found a leak on the top connector to the hot water cylinder. It has a female scew connection to the coil and a compression fitting to the pipework. This is a tank I changed a couple of months ago. I used PTFE and now wondering if hemp would have been better...

I would like to check the position of my balance valve. Which has a brass cover over the square key. It looks like a Comap C x C Gatevalve L/S Brass 15mm as seen on screw fix...

Hi My boiler is noisy after changing the hot water cylinder a couple of months ago. I've got some Fernox boiler silencing stuff that you add via a radiator. The pack says close of rad valaves - open bleed valve and then attach pipe and mastic gun to ran. Open valve (the one you usually use to...

I changed my cylinder recently which was a success, eventually. However I seem to have a problem with the boiler getting noisy when heating HW only. There appears to be two valves on the HW circuit which I fiddled with during another problem (I know I should have left them alone). What do...

I think I've finally got to the end of my heating saga. Split Tank Banging Boiler Pump wrong way round (own goal)...etc Anyway before I started I had a problem in that HW only would work, CH & HW would work but not CH only. It must have been like this since I hanged the old programmer...

I have a new cylinder i'm fitting and would like some advice on the connections to the cylinder. I have the brass fittings male & female should they be tightened up with just PTFE tape and or some sort of washer? Thanks John