Recent content by Chris18

Hi John, thanks for the info. Will send details to ironmongerydirect and see what they say. Could you expand on your suggestion about a bathroom deadbolt, images would be ideal. Want to change the handles as they are very badly scratched. Chris

Hi, thanks for the reply and explanation. Attached are 2 photos of the current bathroom handle we have which hopefully you can see the mechanism. Been to 3 local traders and non have what we need and two didn't know what we were talking about which is I am sure is called privacy lock (not...

My wife, who is the perfect door painter in our household wants to paint all our internal doors with the above pain because it is low odour (her breathing gets affected when using normal paint). Will we have to strip all the paint off the doors or can we just sand them, I think the correct term...

Final post. After trying to refit the immersion with hemp rather than an O ring our plumber discovered it was still leaking. Closer inspection showed that it was leaking at the head i.e where the electrical terminals are and when removed again it seems one or perhaps two of the joints where the...

Thanks, not sure what type of screw was actually supplied although they look like self tapping. The test one I tried went through the plastic no problem then hit a brick wall and despite my best efforts wouldn't go any further, hence my question.

Sorry for the confusion I meant the door was fitted when the porch was built.

Our regular plumber will fix it when he comes to do some other jobs.

I want to fit a restraining hinge to the upvc door on my porch to stop it closing when trying to take shopping in etc. It was fitted when the porch was built some years ago. I have checked it with a level and it seems OK apart from the fact that if I look at the door from the inside it slightly...

Hi, quick update. Let HWC go cold and it started to leak along the o-ring stops as soon as HWC is heated. Thanks for all the help.

Quick update. Have managed to make contact with my regular plumber, apparently his phone had "blown up" whilst on holiday and he lost all his information , including his photos, so didn't know who had called. His first comment regarding the tank was that it was strange but as mentioned here...

Thanks, that's encouraging. I am going to contact my plumber friend tomorrow and if not him then I will contact someone recommended by a friend as I have a couple of small jobs I want to get priced at the same time.

Don't recall the immersion being pre fitted. The cap says it's Titanium but no brand name.

Not sure I have any ink but have followed advice and placed paper around various joints and the stop cock.

Never use the immersion but why would it not last??

Thanks will do as you say as best I can (can only recreate conditions but now having any hot water for a week) but still uncertain how water from say a weeping stop cock would end up on the top of the cylinder. Also, just for clarity our neighbours had watered the garden in our absence so some...