Recent content by Mrs Spanner

I knew I'd been working in drainage for too long when I could eat my lunch whilst looking down a manhole (or should that be inspection chamber :lol: ) Are there any chambers you can lift to have a peek and see how far down it might be blocked. If it's new build I'd also get it officially...

Ta - have had a looky and it doesn't feed anything else, only the shower. I will smile sweetly at hubby re: the multimeter, hopefully he will know where to put it!

Hi all - as above...our shower pump motor is continuing to overrun when the water is turned off. The water stops flowing absolutely fine, but it takes several goes at fiddling with the shower controls to get the pump to turn off. Water looks as if it's being drawn from the cold water tank in...

Thanks for that - the 'problem' we have is that the house has dark wood beams around it so we need the windows to match the beams as they do at the moment. I wondered about staining as presumably we would be able to get a better colour match? It looks as if there are plenty of colour options...

Hi, we have very dark beams around the outside of our house and we want to get the place double glazed as the current windows are very draughty, but the colour of the woodwork doesn't match any of the normal brown plastics we have seen. Is it possible to get UPVC windows stained to match the...

This also happened to a friend of mine although fortunately no-one was hurt. She had not noticed any symptoms beforehand, but it collapsed during the night; I guess it's feasible for something to fail and cause a problem in a relatively short space of time. Fortunately hers burst over the...

When you take the old door out it's just a hole so you can put the new one in whichever way you like - so just work out what's most practical for you and tell them what way you want it and it should be as easy as that.

We paid in the region of £6k last year for doing a standard 3 bed house including 6 normal windows, front door, kitchen door and french doors, and a couple of large random shaped windows. I'd suggest asking around locally - a local supplier by word of mouth can be far better and cheaper than...

Do be a bit careful with your home rodding though, if your pipe has partially broken you could potentially make it completely collapse if your rod gets on a snag and pulls it apart. I'd ask if your neighbours are affected too though as that means that technically they should also chip in...

Our kitchen door used to open outwards, when we had the house redone we had a UPVC one put on to swing inwards instead without a problem.

Can't help with your dilemma but we recently fitted a door as you describe and yes it does have a rubber strip thingy which provides a seal when you close the door but also has a drainage channel which drains back into the enclosure when you open the door. So no Dragons Den for you I'm afraid...

Agree with John - vented (or condenser if you can't access a vent) tumble drier will take the majority of the moisture and get rid of it, at the moment you are just taking buckets of water and allowing it to hang around in the air in your flat. It will be far cheaper to run than the...

Think we paid about £60 same region as you, but there was no oven in place at the time which made it easier for access the gas pipe, as I seem to recall you can't put a flexi hose on a hob.

I lived abroad for a bit where they had this sort of system and personally I really didn't like it - it took absolutely ages to heat up and cool down, so you couldn't adjust room temperatures easily. This was especially true in the 'heating up' period because the floor itself gets toasty quite...

I've had a quick skim through the Sewerage (Scotland) act 1968 and although I can't find anything specific about an age when sewers should be public, it does say that Scottish water must keep maps of the locations of all public sewers at their offices for inspection. If you can get there it...