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The temperature was fine, but not enough pressure to have even a dribble of a shower.

Thank you for your reply. We had the old vented system and cold water tank taken out and replaced with a modern unvented system. We now have great pressure for both hot and cold. But the mixer taps don’t seem to be able to mix the water!

Plumbers please help! Our shower mixer tap and bath mixer tap are either giving pure hot or pure cold, and never warm. No matter how gently I adjust the tap. Background: new bathroom installation in a 1930s house with regular boiler, unvented cylinder & cold water tank. Mixer taps installed...

Thank you, unfortunately no information available for this location on either of the links you posted. I really appreciate your help, thank you. I’ve arranged the mortgage valuation - let’s hope the surveyor is partially sighted!

The outside is rendered, and no visible defects in the render. I’m hoping they’ll just do a drive by valuation. I have to stick with Halifax as I will be porting my current mortgage. Annoyingly that means I can’t shop around and am restricted to what they can offer me. There are lots of trees...

Many thanks for all your responses, much appreciated. The geology website says: Mercia Mudstone Group - Mudstone and halite-stone. Sedimentary bedrock formed between 252.2 and 201.3 million years ago during the Triassic period. Is that a shrinkable soil? The auction guide price is...

Calling all people far cleverer than me. Is this subsidence? It’s in a house being sold at auction which I am seriously considering trying to buy. But would I be mad doing so? There’s a huge crack in the upstairs hallway ceiling. Multiple other cracks around the building. The house is around 80...