Recent content by daverey

Just tried turing the stop-cock a little to reduce the pressure slightly, and hey-presto, no banging. I can't believeit was so simple (and I can't believe our "plumber" didn't know about it - but anyway...). Thanks for all your suggestions though. Dave

This is true - although to be fair, he was cheap as chips and actually did a cracking job of the rest of it!

Hi Thanks for the reply - although we have a combi-boiler and don't have a loft cistern. Dave

apologies for answering my own question.... I have just been searching on the internet and culd the problem I describe be "water-hammer"??? If so it seems a good solution is to turn the main stop cock down a touch - I'll try this tonight. Dave

Hi Not sure if anyone can help me on this one. We recently had our bathroom re-fitted, and ever since it was done there has been a banging noise in the pipes somehwere in the house whenever a tap has been turned off. There is no noise at all when using the taps, but as soon as the flow is...

I have a Hotpoint DWF61 dishwasher, and recently it started to smell. I noticed that after some (not all) washes there is about 1 inch of water left in the bottom - this was the cause of the smell. I have checked the drain hose for blockages and cleaned out all the filters etc, but still the...