Recent content by coliholic

Thanks for the reply Bab,. The problem only started recently though the pump's been in a year or two though I must admit I turned all the water off last month to change some washers and may not have turned the cold back on fully so that could be it? I'll check and let you know. But thanks for...

Had a shower pump for the last fifteen years which I replaced a year or so ago because it had given up the ghost but the pipework's the same as it's always been. Recently when turning off any hot tap anywhere in the house the shower pump will cycle on for ooh as a guess less than half a...

Not actually a car but quite related. Re-spraying a bike frame for my Grandson, and cleaned and rubbed it down today and then gave it a coat of Car Plan grey primer and then a nice bright red gloss paint and when that was all dry a coat of lacquer. But it's as flat as a pancake, no shine at...

Had an offer to buy our house subject to fitting new UPVC windows. The existing ones are single glazed wood and in good condition, but the buyer wants new ones. I've got good DIY skills and have fitted windows and doors in other properties and a local company will supply me good windows so...

Thanks chaps so your expert advice is take up the tiles and junk the u/f heating cable matrix. Remove the existing chipboard flooring and replace with ply? All so it doesn't take quite so long to heat up? And bearing in mind we only occasionally use the u/f anyway maybe, just maybe a bit of...

SWMBO finally settled on green tiles for the kitchen to go between the worktops and cabinets, so it's just a strip 500 cms high on two walls. She, oops I mean we chose, three different shades of green, pistachio, mint and dark green and a light beige and they're the small 10cm square tiles...

Just done 5 doors the same as yours. 120 grit paper on a sanding machine. DULUX white emulsion rollered on as an undercoat (dries quickly) and DULUX white satinwood rollered on as topcoat. Don't EVER use cheap paint. Only Dulux, learned from the mistake. Two days work.

Have had some success on similar wallpaper using a water filled garden sprayer, just keep going over the paper and get it really wet. Obviously put cloths or old towels down to protect your carpets first.

All the destructions say is "remove factory fitted flow restrictor if inlet pressure is below 2psi (1.5bar or 50 ft head)". Not overly helpful?

So ywant to take the two cold supplies in the loft, put them into the pu.mp and expect one of them to magically supply hot water from a cold feed? Err no, it doesn't work like that. You need to fit an essex flange to the top hot outlet of your tank and then run that hot outlet to your pump...

Fitted a new Hydroflo float valve assembly in my bathroom loo today and inside the feed in pipe was a spiral of plastic which I threw out and subsequently found out acts as a flow restrictor. The cistern runs off mains rather than the cold tank and having left the restrictor off, the cistern...

How about trying one of the self drilling pipe connectors as typically used for plumbing in a washing machine? http://www.screwfix.com/p/self-cutting-tap-15mm-x/21250;jsessionid=461JTncXvC8Pvy074C7mSVjPtt8ftkMkhTkQ1hThsytQsZlLw2V3!500919023 If it turns out to be a water pipe, well the...

So what's the difference between laminate and engineered? Surely the same thing?

Installing a complete CH system using a Potterton combi boiler and using copper pipe and having a jolly good time doing it. Great fun. Trying to keep joints to a minimum so bending the pipe to all sorts of weird shapes and it's all coming on well so far. Soldered and tested a few joints and...

Out of interest how did you pressure test it to 2.6 bar?