Recent content by ReJect

That is fair enough if you can get trade discount though, as you need that as part of your business costs, if a tradesperson. But seems unfair that a tradesperson must pay for dumping even a couple bags of building waste, which then the cost has to be passed onto the customer, who potentially...

I have read that there have been road checks on vans and some trades have been heavily fined for simply carrying a few off cuts of materials. If that is the full truth it seems to me to be very unfair. What constitutes ‘commercial waste’ is debatable.

Always seems odd to me that a homeowner could take a trailer load of their building rubble to the dump for free, but if they employ a tradesperson there is a requirement for payment and tradesperson needs waste carrier licence. Same rubbish, but two rules. I can understand it is unfair for a...

If it repeatedly starts dripping every 15 minutes without anyone using the shower for hours, then the shower/shower valve is faulty. What sort of shower do you have? A mixer valve on wall or attached to bath, - or an electric shower that heats water or a digital shower? Combi boiler or stored...

Scrape out the old grout and renew that section if you want it strong and waterproof.

Do you mean pipe collars for where the pipes exit the floor or wall? If the entire pipe you wish covered, I use stainless steel look or chrome finish pipe snap covers.

Difficult to avoid buying Chinese made stuff. It would surprise most of us if we checked where everything we buy is made or assembled. Chinese made mostly, despite what the company brand name is. My objection to the theory that getting things made in China cheap and selling them here in U.K...

I would be tempted to sell those tanks. There are some complete idiots, - sorry, arty type people, who convert those into tables or other ‘interesting’ items and pay silly money. (y)

Any motorised valves (zone valves) on system? The actuator heads on them fail or occasionally valve spindle can seize. They are most common fault and put live link through their micro switch to boiler. (Grey and Orange wires) Needs somebody competent in electrics to test wiring using a multimeter

Check valve to have flow only one way and only if pumped circuit. Often installed on flow pipe to upstairs rads, but sometimes installed because the installer hadn’t a clue on other prevention methods of heat rising. So rarely required. Get a heating engineer to look at your heating system and...

Not my trade, but tarmac that is put down on top of concrete would need to be fairly thick to be sure it will stay in place. Probably well in excess of 50mm finished depth. Nothing beats good foundations. Asphalt might be more suitable, but expensive I assume

Regs now say oil tanks must be 760mm minimum distance from anything combustible, - like a hedge, tree, wooden fence, etc. But few existing oil tanks actually would pass new regs. Trees overhanging are good at keeping sun from damaging tanks, as you said. I can’t think of anything you could wrap...

The sun will probably damage the tarpaulin in a year or two anyhow and it will look ugly. New regs means any materials near oil tanks have to be non combustible.

I am not sure money is a problem for most doctors or nurses. I would need to turn over a huge amount of money to earn equivalent of a basic nurses wage. At present no amount of money would compensate them for their job though, especially those dealing directly with Coronavirus patients.

That is disappointing! First I heard that the new Geberit silicone rubber seals blister. At least they are easy to replace. The older type rubber seals blister because they are a sponge type rubber and absorb water. If you simply use a pin to burst all the wee blisters, the washer will seal...