Recent content by Gordsworth

My kitchen sink is weird. Hot tap gives amazing pressure, cold tap is pathetic. At the suggestion of a plumber I tried swapping the cartridges and the good pressure went to the cold tap. The two cartridges are very slightly different. (See pic) The shorter one is the "good pressure" one, and...

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Okay so I used toilet tissue to test for moisture at every part of the shower interior, and found the breach. It's a tiny crack in this plastic nut (or whatever it is). Is this DIY replaceable? Cheers again.

Hi Couldn't find a shower subforum.so hopefully this is okay. My electric shower is dripping all day and night. Taking the front cover off, it appears to be coming from the pressure relief valve. See pics. Can anyone advise how I go about rectifying this? Thanks in advance! G

I have a year old DBL socket which sparks (a small flash behind the switch) maybe one time in five when I switch it off. I'm not sure what needs doing. Can anyone advise? Here are the symptoms: It never sparks on a 'switch on', only a 'switch off' It only sparks when the appliance plugged into...

I sanded my skirting today, then put primer on it. Planning to gloss it tomorrow. Do I need to sand the primer before applying the gloss? Thanks in advance, G

Hi all - hope everyone's doing alright during the covid lockdown. One upside of staying home most of the time is I'm getting to the neglected DIY jobs! The problem I have is a set of sliding mirror doors. The one at the back has, I think, been off its rail and thumped the frame of the one in...

My circuit breaker/distribution board and old-style electric meter sit near my hall ceiling in the corner, and both are covered/boxed in with wood (painted to match the hall woodwork). I can get at the electric meter via a small hinged flap, but to get full access to the circuit breaker board I...

Hi roughcaster - thanks for the advice. I probably will take off all of the damp plasterboard as you suggest. Thing is, my moisture meter gives a reading of 3-6% on bits of the ceiling far away from the damaged bit, so it might be quite hard to determine where the damage boundary is. I'll...

Hi, Had a plumbing incident last week - upstairs bathroom heating pipe burst and flooded through to dining room below. Result is a nasty hole cut into the dining room ceiling (plasterboard) by the plumber who came to fix it. My plan is to trim back round the hole and fit a new sheet of...