Recent content by therambler

Why not just get some more battery acid and paint the whole worktop with it, then your missus will think you have fitted a nice new white worktop while she was out. Think positively :sneaky:

Hasn't anyone heard of "rising Butt Hinges"? There's no need to cut a door, just fit these hinges and the door will lift up from the floor as it opens. An added benefit is that you can simply lift the door off the hinges when doing any future work. They're also a lot cheaper than a jig saw or...

If you're not doing any hot work you could use a pipe freezing kit on the pipe to the valve you're working on and turn off the valve on the other side of the subject rad. I've successfully done this job before using a freezing kit, but you will need to be able to access the pipe to wrap the...

I know its no benefit to mrbg07546 now, but for anyone reading this as a part of their planning a new bathroom, kitchen or any other work there is a fundamental lesson here. We all have great ideas when thinking about what we want to do but as another contributor mentioned the success of any...

Hi Stem, Thank you for your very comprehensive reply, I really do appreciate the trouble that you have taken. With these options in mind I'll review the system and hopefully select the one that best suits the installation. Looks like I've no excuses now;) Thanks once again.

If its an old style screw down type, I've had a similar situation and when I opened the tap I found that the washer had become so distorted due to people closing the tap too tightly that it jammed in the body of the tap. The washer had come off the plunger in the tap and so wasn't being lifted...

How did you establish that the pump needed replacement? A symptom of a faulty pump is the boiler running until the water in it gets to the preset boiler stat temp and then shutting down. Without the pump running the water in the boiler is more or less dead-headed. The water in the boiler will...

Assuming that you have a conventional system (not a combi boiler) the hot water cylinder is normally supplied from the header tank in the loft. If you make up a suitable plug and use it to block the water from exiting the header tank you should be able to drain off the pipe to the tap in...

A couple of possibilities spring to mind: 1) You said "the loft space also fills with this smell", If the loft insulation has been installed right out to the eves, you may have restricted ventilation in the loft and consequentially some rot in the roof timbers. 2) You said "Flue definitely...

Hi, I'm hoping that someone can advise on this issue: I've a vented, oil fired heating system with two separate circuits for HW and CH. At the moment there is simply a thermo syphon circuit for the HW and the temp is controlled by the boiler stat which results in extremely hot water when the...