Recent content by Donsboig

He's a tricky one... I've been making progress befriending him, and I will ask in due course, but I want to do what I can while I've got the carpet up in case he's not willing to change his habits

Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately I own the flat, and we the owners run the management of the building. I don't really want to open up a huge expensive piece of work where we're trying to seal all floors of the building. I guess I will do my best with sealing and seeing where we get...

As I understand it, it was shoddily converted in the 80s so it probably doesn't comply with regs. I've done lots of sniffing at various locations in the room and I'm pretty certain it's not coming from outside. It's strongest at the floor level on the side of the room opposite from the window.

thank you. What exactly is not ideal about it? Moisture not being able to move about freely?

In the floor space there are electrical cables, some of which poke into the flat below via small holes, so I'm assuming the smoke comes up through those. Then it is only impeded by floorboards which have large gaps between them. What other routes should I be considering?

Hello, I am in a converted Victorian house and when my downstairs neighbour smokes I get smoke smell coming up through the floor. I'm planning to put new carpets down and wondering if it is ok to put some sort of plastic sheeting down across the whole floor (and tuck it under skirting boards)...

In a flat (Victorian conversion), but the temperature fluctuations are constant and very quick (going hotter-colder-hotter over 5 seconds ish) so I don't think it's due to flushing loos or other taps being used

I'm just learning about all of this so not entirely sure! But from some googling I thought they were probably basic isolation valves that were set by the previous owners to a part-closed position. If fully open the shower pressure is a bit forceful... Photo shows one of the isolation (?) valves...

I'm not aware of any pressure reducing valves, I've had a good look and can't see any. Could it perhaps be an issue with turbulence inside the mixer tap? So that the hot and the cold are getting slugged in in uneven spurts? My main concern with the thermostatic mixer is that if the flows coming...

yeah, it does stay steady in that setup

The temperature fluctuation is too rapid and consistent for that I think. It fluctuates every few seconds, all the time. If I can't figure it out then thermostatic mixer is the backup solution, but some numpty tiled the bath in so it will be a bigger job than I would like to pay for!

Thank you. I didn't measure it through the showerhead, but the temperature fluctuation happens through the main tap as well so I don't think that's the issue. Also in the restricted setting I always had the hot lever fully open, so probably was getting more than 2.5 LPM (combi HW set to 50). I...

With the isolating/restricting valves as they were, I got: Cold: 4 litres per minute Hot: 6 litres per minute Then I opened them both fully and got: Cold: 16 litres per minute Hot: 12 litres per minute Both times I allowed the hot to run for a minute first so the boiler was in a steady...

Hi, yes that's right, the cold into the mixer comes from the mains too

Yeah I'd like to avoid that if possible due to the difficulty of accessing underneath the bath. And I'm not totally sure it would solve the problem?