Recent content by HereditaryTools

Thank you, AGAS. I had taken a few goes at trying to turn the covers (and the OH had tried too) but they wouldn't budge. Have just tried again and one unscrewed! Maybe the nine gallons of WD40 I squirted in eventually got to work. Now I need a different kind of wrench to get the valve out, but...

Have been doing lots of plumbing things recently but just when I thought I was all done, the kitchen tap decides to kick off and start dripping. The tap is an Ikea Loviken mixer tap (Mk1, I think), with ceramic valves, and it is the cold side that’s dripping. I have read other threads online...

DID IT!! Thanks to everyone for their replies. It is a very old-style mixer tap - the bathroom is the one part of the flat that has never been updated, and everything is unbranded, probably cheap and dodgy plumbing installed with all kinds of bad practice. We haven't lived here many years, so...

Having some issues with hot water in our flat and hoping that people might be able to help us isolate what and where the problem is. We have a Worcester Greenstar combi boiler - either the 24i junior or the 28i (I should know which but there is nothing anywhere on the casing to indicate.) About...