Recent content by portuguesejohn

Yes!! I had realised what was going on and just now read your comment, it looks like the screw might have been over tightened as it cut through the wire and left the earth cable loose (the end of wire came out when I unscrewed that screw)!! That or just removing the plate forced the break!

Old cooker tripped up the RCD yesterday evening while using the oven and since turning it back on it looks like the oven function has stopped working entirely - as in, light still comes on, fan turns on, but no heat. I imagine the heating element has gone bust. The hob function is still fine...

Sorry, what material would I use to cover the wood? It is quite rotten at the end of the photo, as in, I can probably break most of it off with my fingers. Is this the sort of thing I should be looking for...

Hi, wanting to get some advice on what to do here (you'll be able to tell I'm not the most experienced!). Need to replace a fascia board and possibly put in new guttering too, find pictures attached. The original work is rotting away, the worst section being to the left of the first picture...

I think you worded it in a way my simple mind could wrap around :) I think I definitely "bottomed" it, as in, it took quite the effort to get it position. Are these the type washers I should be using...

Edit Seems like what I was doing then! I can only assume the weather is the reason for it have started leaking? Tap frozen which must have made the water expand slightly? I'm slightly worried becasue the dingy old tap never seemed to leak, and it looked like it was put in place manyyyy years...

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Hi, This summer we had our garden tap leaking, so I followed good old Youtube to had it replaced, end result: Job seemed good, all summer = no leaks. Fast forward to today and I noticed a considerable leak exactly where the tap connects to the pipe (in red arrow): Now, it has been...

This is where I think something is a bit iffy with the shower - today, as the hot/cold cycle started, one of the things I tried was completely turning off the cold water tap, I then let max hot water run for a good 30 secs and didn't notice any more fluctuation. I then slowly started turning the...

I've just been on the phone with one of the installers (company called boxt) and that seems to be consensus as well, they say this is one of their most common queries. Say I'd like to try changing the fittings myself, are there any considerations I need to be aware of besides the fact that it...

I'll wait for things to get worse before going there...

I'll give it a go when I get back. Although I can perfectly understand concerns over my mains flow, I don't really feel like it is an issue here, I have lived in other places where that was definitely a thing, but my current shower works really great, if not the best shower I have ever lived...

Sounds like I need to reduce the HW temperature on the boiler (if I want to have colder showers) during summer and increase the temperature during winter? As in the tap on the bath or the basin? Can't confirm 100% on the basin (although I didn't feel significant reduction in it for the couple...

Yes, I opened the basin tap and the water temp kept fluctuating, it also didn't take much of that tap being open to considerably reduce the flow on the shower.

So this has happened again twice in 2 days. Both times happened after the Mrs jumped out of the shower and I went straight in after. Turning the basin hot tap on didn't make it better (only reduced the flow on the shower), removing the shower head didn't "fix" it either. One thing that did...