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Polesapart - that's a great idea, thank you. Madrab - yes, i've been in touch with IS and emailed them photos. Just waiting to hear back. They weren't a great help on the phone though. I am replacing the front section on advice from a plumber. The hot side of the mixer tap has an...

Thank you oldbuffer, that's very helpful. I suspected an airlock might be the problem. Yes it is a vented system as you describe. So my next question is - how to go about fixing an airlock? Is it a job for a plumber? Many thanks again.

Hi there. Sometimes when we go to turn on the hot water in the bath (mixer tap), we only get a tiny trickle coming out. The strange part is that we can then leave it overnight, turn it on again in the morning and it's working a lot better. Can anyone help by listing a few possible causes and...

Hi there, I hope someone can help with a tap question - all help very gratefully appreciated. I am trying to replace (the front section only) of this Ideal Standard bath mixer tap (photos in my album here). I do not want to replace the tap 'tails' I think they are called (the upright...

Ideal Standard tap

Nuts are on the tails

Thank you. I'm always impressed by people's generosity on this site. Enjoy the weekend.

Hello. Just moved into a new house and about to paint the skirting. It looks to me as if this is 'pre-primed' skirting and has just never been painted. It certainly doesn't look like it has been brush painted. Sprayed maybe. It's a light grey colour. 1. Can anyone shed any light? 2. if it is...

Thank you for taking the time to reply - it's appreciated. Yes, the 2 lights are served by a single switch with a fuse. All the best.

Hi there. We have some lights mounted in top of glass display cabinets in our kitchen, which are now surplus to requirements. The cable is not buried in the wall, it just runs up the back of the cabinets. If I remove the connection to the light back to the next junction box, and leave these...

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Thank you... excuse my naivety. Is it ordinary for these to be hot and noisy or is there likely to be a fault? The fact it stops buzzing when I tweak the cable would suggest something isn't quite right.

Hello all! Hoping you can help. We have just moved house.. the new place has a Worcester Greenstar Ri boiler and a separate hot water tank. The boiler was fitted in April 2012 by a local plumber. The first night, after we had had the heating on for a while, we noticed that a pump (or...

Hi there all, We are adding some new woodwork to an original Victorian kitchen and I need to try to identify the original wood. I think it might be red oak?? This photo shows it when I sanded it back before oiling it so shows the true colour. The dust was a kind of reddish grey in colour...