Recent content by MrFrosty

A central heating pump. I was sure my lecturer said that they could push the water through and burst the bubble. However I am going back 7 years and it was only a passing comment so I could of totally misheard him.

Hi, I'm fitting a wet room an I've just gone to take the bath out and there are 2x22mm pipes for the heating running in front of it. I need to drain the system and move the pipes. There's no f and e tank and it's not a sealed system. It's been in about 19 years and apparently it's a primatic...

I'm trying to change an immersion in a water heater. The problem being the box spanner I have is not deep enough, and I can get onto the bottom of the immersion however due to the sides of the water heater I can't get my hands onto it to turn it. Is there an immersion spanner that has a longer...

Ban all sheds what??? Thank you for pointing me to the diagram, however as it was missing half the wires I mentioned I had, wasn't much use! Negative comments? Where? Sparkwright thank you very much for your help. In the end the electrician we use at work finished a job early and popped up to...

Yes I left the blue and red as they were. I definitely kept the individual black as I put some electric tape around the coating when I took it out. Both lights (the hallway and the new one in the front room) are both dull nowhere near the brightness they were.

I've just changed a light in my front room. On the old fitting it had a long type terminal block with 3 reds, 2 blacks together, a single black and a yellow wire with all the earths connected together and a blue and red connected together in the ceiling. So I connected the 3 reds together, the 2...

Thanks chaps I though there was a fitting like that however hadn't come across on in the 6 years since I started Plumbing, I'll give it a try.

I already have, however the problem is my friend has decided this is where his washing machine need to go, and has built all the units to suit. However the body of the old stop cock won't let the washing machine go far enough back to the wall. So it unfortunately has to come out. Really hoped...

Hi, I'm in the process of Plumbing in a new ktichen for a friend however now he has fitted all of his units it turns out I need to remove a old stopcock that is now redundant however still on his water main. I've looked at the pipe, originally I though it was a pieve of galvanised steel...

Hi, Does anyone know what the current scrap prices are? Me and my work colleague have been collecting it for the past 6 months and now we have so many bags of taps, copper, lead it has taken over his garage and one room of my house. I really want to take it down to the scrappy but am not sure...

Ah right thanks for that will check it tomorrow.

If there was a live and neutral round the wrong way wouldn't that trip it at the fuseboard? The boiler always has power.

I've got a problem with my Wickes halstead combi boiler. It was working fine yesterday. I'm in the process of doing my house up so am not staying there. I went back today and have had a new fuseboard installed for me. I turned on the hotwater and the boiler started up, however the hot water...

I hate to say it but my boss has been giving the baths to the pikies saying they're worthless and how glad he is that we're not having to pay to get rid of them! Thats why i thought i'd come on here and find out as he gave one away today and i've got another to take out tomorrow that he's given...

Hi, I regularly fit new bathrooms, and am regulary removing/replacing baths which are mainly cast iron, weigh a ton and 9 times out of 10 have to be smashed up to get outside. Up until now all the baths have been binned (minus taps, and any copper/lead attached which is removed and scrapped)...