Recent content by Tarragonrookie

I think I have found the reason. The culprit appears to be the rinse aid. I have turned it off and after a few cycles the foam had disappeared. There must have been a build up of rinse aid residue somewhere in the machine. I am going to experiment with using powder and running the rinse aid on...

To my surprise versions of this filter now appear on Amazon. The OEM filter states that it meets NSF.42 (chlorine, taste odour & particulates), NSF.53 (lead, bacteria etc) and NSF.401 (pharmaceuticals, pesticides & herbicides). The pattern filters only state meeting NSF.42. I don't know what...

We replace the water filter in the above fridge/freezer every six months as recommended. Two years ago these cost £43 each delivered in UK. They are now charging £63.48 per filter. I'm not mean but spending £126 per year on a fridge water filter seems excessive to me. It feels like F & P are...

You are one of life's diamonds Sir. Thank you very much for your comprehensive reply. It's much appreciated . kind regards and thanks again.

Our Siemens dishwasher is seven years old and has worked perfectly until now. We are unable to stop it producing loads of foam at the end on each cycle. We had a Siemens Engineer visit, check it over and offer his thoughts, he could find nothing wrong. We have tried different salt, rinse aid...

We changed from a Bosch to LG washer dryer last autumn. Everything has been good until yesterday. We put the winter quilt in to wash. The dry weight being well within the capacity of the machine. You probably know what's coming. The washing machine was unable to spin the quilt and finally showed...

Thanks guys, can't imagine how the average homeowner deals with this, unless they live with the pump cycling on its own. Good to know I don't need to connect a permanent compressor

Having discovered a couple of years ago, what happens to the pump when the pressure vessel has lost its pressure over time (pump starts on its own and runs for a few seconds) I fitted a new pressure vessel. I was unable to find a leak in the old unit. Two years down the road and I had to...

Thank you for your advice and guidance, it's much appreciated. Cheers

It's a brick aperture in an out building.

I've got 35mm where the hinge screws (30mm) will go and over 45mm around the rest of it. As I've cut it now, It's job done. I will let you know if the door falls off. Good on you for helping bird brain's like me!

Thank you for your response. If I remove the 10mm, I will still have 35mm frame depth at the door face and 45mm depth at the widest point. I think this will leave the frame strong enough. Best regards

I have a Howdens hardwood external door frame and door that need to be made 20mm narrower to fit the brick opening. I'm torn between simply taking 10 mm off the sides of the frame or carry out some carpentry on the joints and reduce the door and frame size by 20mm. This is more work, but does...

We currently have two Siemens 12 year old built in ovens, one a microwave combo and the other a conventional oven. They have been excellent products and we are considering replacing with new Siemens/Neff equivalent models. There is nothing wrong with ovens, just a desire to buy the next 12 years...

Five years ago we refurbished two bathrooms to high specification and fitted two Swiss Schneider Graceline cabinets. These are not cheap at well over a grand each. Since installing these, we have experienced a high level of mirror door edge deterioration. One cabinet is now on its third set of...