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Update Wickes agreed to exchange or refund the bent drill bit if I could find a straight one in the store. 4 on the shelf, only 1 was straight. But there still seems to be excessive end play. In the mean time Wickes Customer Service Technical have advised that the end play I describe is...

Maybe not but the drill bit I am using is 4 x the length needed for a single brick

Definitely SDS plus. Rolling it on a worktop shows a slight bowing which definitely should not be there so I will exchange it and keep posted.

Hello I purchased a Wickes Rotary Hammer drill this week, Model PDH26DS1.1 I had also purchased a drill bit 16mm x 450mm The hole I need to drill is 16mm x 350mm through external brickwork I have not used a SDS set up before. There is some backward and forward movement of the drill bit...

I live in an especially hard water area, (Basingstoke). I have just installed a new Hot Water and Central Heat system. I asked to be fitted a Fernox electrolytic descaler to my water supply. I am also aware of magnetic descaler units and mains powered magnetic field/electronic descalers. Is...

But how? I have some understanding of siphoning, but you need suction to get that process going too. How can you have negative pressure in a mains water pipe? A link to a diagram might help me.

"could result in contaminated water being drawn back into the pipework if the supply pressure dropped. " I can understand water pressure reducing, but how could mains water pressure actually become negative, sucking water (or air) back up the public pipework? I live in an area where the mains...

We are having our small detached house enlarged by about 50% to a total internal volume of roughly 250 cu m. It is 1956 brick built and apart from there being no CW insulation in the original walls (yet) the planned insulation will be about the current standard. We are now researching a water...

I am actually thinking of getting a thermal store to run with my present Intergas Compact HRE 24 OV which was installed 3 years ago. We are in a house we are extending to 4 bedrooms and having replumbed. The plumber is waiting for me to decide. Without hijacking, any points to watch for welcome...

Slang for "figured out" "understood what's happening"

We have a pair of galvanised steel, presumed to be Crittall, french doors which need to be removed without damage, to be re-fixed internally in an existing internal archway which may need resizing and is in a solid internal brick wall. We won’t be keeping the present glass but will replace with...

I may not have explained properly, but I was trying to explain why the warm air can't help the top tank the same way as it helps the main tank, as the main tank is brought into the insulated space of the house, but the top one isn't, as it is 2 feet above the insulation layer.

The open vented header tanks in my loft are arranged one on top of the other. The main feed to the HWC is mounted on the joists, and the central heating header is mounted via a combination of a horizontal roof strut and a batten secured to the brick chimney wall, so that there is about 2 feet...

But what about vapour rising through the ceiling board, which I believe is permeable? The underside of the board is on the cold side of the insulation, after all