Recent content by rhlee

I know there are tons of questions from people asking whether they can use flexible tap connectors for central heating. To which the answer is always no. The reason why I am looking into flexible hosing is that my pipes knock. That's fine by itself as the noise from the pipes is muffled by the...

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We have a 3 kite stairs in our house that is attached to two internal walls and one external. We noticed that some of the screws holding the staircase onto to walls have come loose and cannot be tightened (they just keep on turning). The stairs have been here since we moved in, in 1983. Is...

It's a Valliant boiler with microbore pipes. All the radiators work fine apart from one. That one radiator takes far longer to heat up and when it does, it is only warm whereas the other radiators are hot. Rebalancing the radiators did not help.

I'm planing to use Fernox DS40 to clear out a microbore blockage. I can't use the one of those funnel things for radiators as the radiators are quite narrow and do not have the type of bleed valve where you can screw in the funnel. The heating system is closed, but it does have a MagnaClean...

Thanks for confirming.

An engineer came round and replaced the thermostatic valve on one of the radiators during an annual boiler service. It seems to be a Drayton TRV4. However the valve does not seem to work too well. The radiator seems to be either really hot or completely off, nothing in between. Upon closer...

My parents asked me to replace a broken outdoors electrical socket in property that is being let. Is it OK for someone who is an unqualified electrician like me to do the job?

My bath tap started leaking a month or so ago. It has right angle attachments to the body of the bath. I've seen other taps like this with the right angle attachments and I am wondering if they all have the same distance from one inlet to the other? It would save me a lot of hassle to just...

Thanks for the replies. Turns out I did need a new one, which I got from a plumbers merchant. Compared to the old one, the new foam washer was twice the thickness.

I had to replace the siphon in my toilet. Because of that I had to remove the tank from the bowl and hence the doughnut washer between them. I've been told from a few videos and guides that I need to replace the doughnut between the tank and bowl. In most of the guides, the washer is rubber...

Hi, I need a drain down kit that City Plumbling Supplies (cityplumbing.co.uk) has in stock. I was planning to go down early tomorrow morning, but I'm not sure whether they are open to the public or if they are trade only. Does anybody know? Thanks, Richard

It turns out it was connected via a regular 3-pin plug (the wire ran down one side of the cupboard under the floorboards then back up the other side) rather than a fused spur. Replaced the fuse, everything is working. Thanks for the help.