Recent content by Alaska1977

The only pump I am aware of is my underfloor heating pump but that's run off the main central heating off the boiler so can't see how it's linked to this. It is wired to a junction box, the wire does I believe go to the UFH pump set up but again not sure why? I spoke to the UFH supplier and they...

Is there any reason for having a liquid flow switch fitted to the cold water feed of my Worcester Bosch combi boiler? Had an Engineer out as the switch is leaking. He couldn't see what purpose it was serving. Options given are replace (but its an £80 part) or remove and cap off. Thinking...

I just installed this in an extension and found it easy enough having never installed a toilet. Toilet looks good, and works well with dual flush. Toilet seat is plastic and some might say a bit flimsy but does the job...

What I had attempted was to get the stud/plug into the masonry by pushing it 10 mm or so in so that it was almost beyond the plaster sitting nicely in the masonry. I then trimmed the top of another plug to almost create a collar to bridge the gap left between plug and the external surface of...

Hi, I am mounting a wash basin and using the fixings below in the photo. It is going in a new build part of my house and so I know the wall construction and hence could measure accurately from the external plaster finish to the block work behind. Seems to me that to ensure that the plug...

Basin Fixing

Tried WD40 and more effort. Ended up shearing the tap head clean off though it was pretty corroded -so ended up replacing the tap head. All sorted

I knew it would be stiff but pretty surprised if its this stiff - had a wrench on it leveraging off the bath and really gave it some. I've seen other posts about it getting stuck but guess couldn't believe it could be wedged in this much. If the feeling is that it is and all taps are...

Hi, Trying to remove the tap head on the tap shown in the pics. I managed to get the screw out of the top of the head below the "C" cap (screw head completely worn away). I assumed with the screw out and with just a bit of elbow grease it would then pull off to reveal the valve. The tap...

Taps

Thanks - good to know.