Recent content by chrisd1967

Thanks! What would you do in my situation?! Join or lay the other way?! I’m struggling to work out what’s best. I don’t think I’m too fussed it looking a different shade up there. The house is hardly a show house and there’s a window there casting shadows and sunlight in that area anyway.

We’d like to get a new carpet for our hallway, stairs and landing. We have had a quote and annoyingly a join is going to be needed on the landing. This is apparently because you want to keep the carpet all in the same ‘direction’, otherwise it might look wrong. The join can be avoided simply...

The ceiling is indeed very low and it’s right up in a loft space (hence the ceiling shape). Frustratingly the few inches of space above it isn’t accessible, except for punching a hole in the plaster. The fan ducting runs down the slope of the roof in the void between batons and plaster. It...

A piece of tissue over the extractor stays put (and then falls off when you turn the extractor off). Perhaps I need to adjust the timer to keep it on longer once the light goes off

I replastered the ceiling above my shower cubical (see picture) and sealed with Zinsser Bulls Eye then gave several coats of Dulux Easy Care Bathroom paint, but after a few months the paint has started flaking off. Is there a more robust waterproof paint that someone can recommend that won’t...

Sooner or later I'll need to get this boiler replaced (although I'm tight so it'd have to pretty much corrode away to nothing before I did!). The house is a 'system' setup, with a megaflo tank, but as you can see in the pic the boiler is a conventional boiler. The pump/valves/expansion tank...

As you can probably see, my en suite ceiling needs sanding back and replastering. Is there a clever way or knack to remove these combined downlight/extractors from the room? It’s in the apex of a roof so /very/ difficult to get to the other side of it

Last question...! I'll fit check valves into the cold and hot feeds of that shower. I assume I'll need to do both feeds as there's every chance the hot could feed back into the cold too. Would a single check valve suffice, or shall I get a double? Many thanks again!

Yep - air bubble is good, redid it yesterday just incase. But... a breakthrough! I did the test where I isolated the hot supply and went round each mixer tap and shower and confirmed that nothing came out on hot. All was good on all taps, but one shower still had cold water coming out when...

There has always been a bit of an issue with tepid water in the hot taps, which we have always just put down to water taking ages to arrive at the tap. Recently it appears to be worse, so perhaps the mains pressure has increased or something like that. My only hesitation with the crossover...

I don't know for sure, but I've ordered a pressure tester so I'll have the answer soon hopefully. There is a t piece butted right up to my mains incomer stopcock that would require a lot of fiddling to move, so if it transpires that my mains water is a mega high pressure, then is my theory of...

I did isolate the hot and ran my mixer taps and didn't get a drop out of any mixer taps at all on the 'hot' setting (I didn't try showers though, I'll try them too). I took this to mean that there isn't any backfeeding going on, as surely I'd have seen cold water come out of the tap when I did...

Thanks all. Annoyingly there are no signs of any isolators for my thermostatic showers, almost certainly buried somewhere, so I can't isolate the showers to try and work out where the culprit is. My mains water incomer immediately splits into two 15mm arms which service various parts of the...

Thanks for your reply. The bit I don't understand is how this causes the water temperature to be low when only the hot is on. Surely the pressure of the cold at that point should be irrelevant? Would you say that fitting a 3 bar (i.e. the same as on the megaflo) limiter in the main cold...

I have a peculiar problem and I wonder if anybody has any ideas. I've experimented thus: The megaflo tank is full of hot water. Put the kitchen tap on hot, with no other taps on. Temperature at tap is 38ºC (i.e. poor). Now, with the kitchen tap still running, turn another random *cold* tap...