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Folks Hoping for some advice. I have lifted the floor upstairs on one side of my house (20-yr old conversion where the floor joists were spread a bit too far apart:-( In putting the floor back, I will end up with 3 areas: bathroom; landing (stairs going into the loft); bedroom - the...

Thanks for all the help/advice. I am going to look first at an alternative (basically, move a stud wall in the kitchen, which will (a) increase the floor space and (b) provide me with a space to put a door, between the kitchen and the hall - I hope :) Will gen up on the sprinklers, though...

Kevplumb - thanks - I scanned that site yesterday, but digging deeper has helped (a little - clearly an outline design is needed in order to work through some of the calculations) chrishutt - Figures came from a check on the water flow inside the house (which is currently 15l/min), and then a...

Hi Not sure if this is the right forum, but seemed the best match. I am having a loft conversion done, and had the designer round recently. To cut a long story short, all seems fine BUT I don't have a door to the kitchen, just a narrow(ish) archway. Advice I have been given...

Many thanks for the comments - I shall check down the pressure angle first, and move from there Cheers Dave

Hi Looking for opinions, please. I have a 4-bed detached house, approx 50 years old. Since it was built there has been at least two, possibly three, changes to the plumbing. This has left the house with: 1. A boiler downstairs, which runs the central heating and provides hot...

Kevplumb was right - You can remove the levers and re-align them by removing the "hot" (or "cold") cover on the tap, removing the fixing screws and then re-aligning. Nervous of trying this originally because there was no obvious join between the cover and the tap body Ho hum - turned...

Hi I have just installed a couple of new taps on a sink. The taps have levers that rotate approx 90 degrees in a horizontal plane, and these allow the flow of water. For aesthetics only, I would like the lever to align fully with the spout when in the "off" position. I am sure this is...

May not be relevant, but this happened to me a while ago - there was (still is) a flexible pipe from the hot water tap to the water supply - this had "kinked", and was effectively reducing the water flow. Bath panel off, unkinked the pipe, all now as it should be HTH Dave

Thanks for the replies To confirm - it was 'spurting', not a steady stream/trickle Early indications are that it is indeed the stat on the boiler itself - have put it back down to 140 (from 180), and thus far nothing has come through the vent pipe - will keep an eye on it over the next few...

Apologies for not providing enough detail (I came to the forum from a Search, so didn't see the 'advice' posts initially). Right - boiler is gas-fired GlowWorm (prob about 20 yrs old) It's a 2-circuit system (cold-water and expansion tank in the loft) No work has been done to it recently...

Hi - the Overflow from the Expansion tank has recently started spewing hot water into the garden, at periodic intervals. On investigating, the vent pipe from the hot-water cylinder is the culprit, with spurts of water topping the expansion tank up. Any suggestions? Those that spring to my...