Recent content by trotter

Hi there, just had a garden room built and they reinforced a section for me with osb pattress to wall Mount a 43 inch tv. Just on a flat mount, two feet wide, no extending arms or whatever. Probably about 15mm thick osb, directly behind plasterboard. Gap behind it to insulation. Will about 8...

Thanks both - was unsure about those type of connectors being 15mm vs 1/2" (i.e. different sizes at each end) but from those suggestions I assume that's just inside vs outside measurements, if that makes sense. Will give them a try. Thank you

Hi, in the absence of pics I hope words will do :D I am trying to replace my side fill cistern float valve. I've bought the new float valve, but as ever in my house, nothing is straightforward. The water pipe runs along the wall about 150mm lower than the valves inlet, and is joined by flexi...

Just for completeness - took it back to the Dulux trade centre at Sawbridgeworth and they added more tint, to get to the colour I actually wanted. Good service, for a stupid person!

I treated myself to some Dulux trade diamond eggshell for my hall and stairs woodwork. From the local dulux decorators centre. Unfortunately I've bought 2.5 litres of timeless and it is white. Indistinguishable from the white undercoat when I tried it. I wanted a cream which is what the...

Hi all, the main oven on our creda freestanding double electric oven keeps heating, and heating and heating! So I'm Pretty sure it's the thermostat that's gone. However, after plenty of youtubing, I can't see where the temperature probe is on the main fan oven. I can see it in the middle oven...

I'm in the same boat with my bath, lord knows how you'd access the taps. Same person who boxed in this cistern so hopefully they've thought about it but there's no obvious access!

Just a quick update, I chiselled out the grout around those tiles and there was access to the cistern from above. The mechanism in the cistern wasn't returning all the way to the top because of limescale I think. So water continued to flow in and eventually down the loo. It was caked in scale...

Thanks John Was my line of thinking too. It's very hollow sounding. Just thought I'd throw it out to you guys before getting the Stanley knife out!

Do I access the cistern here? The two studs you can see on top are screws but they cover two tiles and the whole lot is sealed / grouted / mastic'ed together The reason being the loo is constantly allowing water to trickle through No sign of easy access anywhere Any ideas that save me...

Haha thanks, but I don't know what is in there now (was in when I bought house)!

Hi all, quick question if you don't mind. My shower is leaking from the controls / catridge presumed knackered. I'm looking at replacements and one says 5 ltr/sec at 0.1 bar, the other 5 ltr/sec at 0.3 bar We have poor water pressure at times, so which would be best? Thanks in advance

Old boiler was an ideal which I was told was a hunk of junk ha But yes it kicked in at low flow rates

Just wanted to update the thread as people had offered advice. Got the water board out, pressure is 1.5 bar and flow rate on outside tap was 9/10 litres/min. However what the chap did spot was that I live in a row of 3 semis and one detached, all built together in the 30s, and sharing one pipe...

Haha Mike I suggested the same thing this morning ;o) Hopefully it works and the air can be a little less blue tomorrow morning!