Recent content by alison7148

Looking for some advice please. We live in a 1930’s detached house. My daughter has the front bedroom with a large bay window (with 20+ year old aluminium framed window). The walls of the bay (and the ceiling of the bay too) are black with mould when she peeled the wallpaper off. We put extra...

Please can anyone suggest how I can tile this plasterboard area behind the new toilet/ sink combo. Had to have this built to hide pipework, but not sure how to tile it as top of area is removable and needs to remain so to allow access to pipes. Can't work out how to do external corner along the...

We have the most hideous brown mosaic tiles in our kitchen as the splashback. Is there an easy and economical way of covering them? We are hoping to redo the kitchen properly in a couple of years, so this would just be a temporary update. Is the only option to tile over them or is there some...

No.....Will try that. Running all taps together?? Thanks

We have a 2 year old combi boiler (Gloworm). Today we had a plumber in to sort out a couple of dripping taps. Since their repair, after we have turned on the cold tap the boiler makes a noise as though it is going to fire up. It doesn't actually light though. The noise lasts a few seconds only...

Hi, we have moved to a house with a very 80's bathroom, peach corner bath, floor to ceiling peach tiles, gold taps and mahogany loo seat/ bath panel etc. We cannot afford to rip it all out, so will have to try and make it slightly more up to date on the cheap!!. Would like to try and paint...

Thanks so much....will get on the phone to our plumber in the morning xx

I guess it makes sense that the valve is stuck........can it be fixed or will it need replacing? We live in a hard water area - could it be scaled up? And any ideas what we have no heat downstairs? It seems as though it probably isn't an electrical problem with the thermostat though, from all...

Yes then it is a mid position valve! If I move the manual lever across, then heating comes on (which is what we have had to do for the past couple of days) . It was just tonight that the downstairs radiators didn't heat up.

Is it really obvious?

Sounds a silly question but how do I check that the pump is running? And I presume it is a mid-position valve as thats what we were told was being replaced 3 years ago....to be honest I have no idea! It used to make a noise when switching from heating to hot water and back again

Oh and its a normal(old) Baxi boiler, not a combi or condensing one

Valve is a ?Darfuss (sorry really hard to see the make as it is all in my daughter's bedroom in the airing cupboard....so I have been trying to creep around with a torch without waking her up!). Does that help? The hot water is coming on fine (although is super-hot)

Hi - here's hoping someone has an idea what is going on with our heating. At the moment it won't turn on- we hear the thermostat click, but this does not trigger the heating to come on. If I manually move the switch on the mid-position valve it comes on, then turns off when the desired...

Thanks - that makes a bit more sense now! xx :D