Recent content by amason79

Gee! If it needs to be of that spec, then it will cost more than the 20mm parquet! (Well not quite £195 that's a bit much for what is essentially **** wood) How about 12X2440X1220 Chipboard? Maybe I should go for ripping the stones out and concreting! Or just plain simple boring...

I had thought about using ply, how would I fix it to the flagstones, to get a firm fixing? What thickness ply would be best? Would 6MMX2440X1220 be ok?

My wife and I are renovating an 1870's house. Under the lounge carpet is what I presume to be the original Flagstones "great" you might think! Problem is I was hoping for a screeded floor, as we intend on laying parquet flooring in a double herringbone pattern and as I am sure you are all...

Hi, I need to divert a 32 mm waste pipe (from a basin) into a 40mm waste pipe (from a bath), but I am worried that when the bath is emptied that the water in the basin trap might be siphoned out and that I will get foul air traveling up the 32mm pipe. Is this likely, I would be Tee(ing) the...

So they you an oxyacetylene torch for cutting it? So the whole actual beam can bow, I need it to be straight!

Hi does anyone know of a site online where you can price/buy I or T beams? Can you get 150mm I-Beams or T-Beams? I am really looking for a T-Beams 150-180 mm 3300mm Long! I can't find any T-Beams what would be the best way to cut the top of an I-Beam to make it into a T-Beam, I am a bit...

Fair enough I won't do it! But what about those who can't afford to be ripped off by the hoter water cylinder manufacturers? I mean come on £600-1000 for a F*****G cylinder!

Don't put a boiler in the loft, if you want a wall mounted boiler with a good output buy the Glowworm 38CXI or the Baxi 133 HE. No tanks or messing in the loft.

Bloody M*****s! The washer should be in the diverter, in the tap mixer unit on top of the tub (in front of the wall), its just if the shower pipe is connected 'inside' the wall it going to be difficult to get at. Have ago, you can always call a plumber afterwards!

If its been getting gradually worse, I would put my money on it being the washer perished. Its slowly been wearing and now its gone. Those things are difficult to take apart. Can you reconnect the shower pipe without the need for access behind the tiles? If so It might just be worth...

I might try it out! Put a cylinder out in the back yard and pressurise it up to mains pressure, see how it handles like that before I try heating it or connecting expansion vessels to it. So if you reduced the presseure using a PRV to ~ 1 bar it might be ok? Doubling the water storage...

Do you mean its a Bath/Shower mixer tap and water is coming out of the bath tap when you switch it to the shower? If so the washer in the diverter valve is probably perished or worse the diverter is broke! Is the problem sudden or has it been getting gradually worse? Andy

I was thinking, and it might sound stupid but here I go! It seems to me that a lot of companies are making an awful lot of £ out of pressurised unvented cylinders! Why couldn't people just convert a traditional vented cylinder, by connecting the CWS up to where the cold fed in from the...

Its probably burining up because 10mm is nasty stuff to work with and its not tight enough! Use a 50Amp MK shower pull cord switch. 10mm can take upto 11.1 KW with that cable run. What worries me is not your cable or even the switch, its the fuseboard! Fuseboard, if you have been using...

Just get a combi with a good DHW output (scrap all the tanks). The Keston C36 (14.5 l/min), Valliant 835 (14.3 l/min), Ferroli Maxima 35C (14.2 l/min), Baxi 133 HE (16 l/min), Vokera Syntesi 35 (14 l/min), Chaffoteaux and Maury minima 35 (14.2 l/min), Gloworm 38CXI (15.5 l/min), Potterton Gold...