Recent content by xAlex

Thank you Elkato

Am I missing something? Inside: stopcock-type tap then straight pipe to outside tap. I took the top part off the tap and still no water. Could there be anything in between the stopcock and the tap? It used to work. The house <2years old. See pic

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Is there an easy fix for this? Water is slowly leaking from beneath the lever. Tap is 1 year old. Thank you!

Thank you Oldbuffer!

Hi all. This is leaking from behind the ‘tap’ shown above. It leaks in front and behind the plate. The tap will not pull in front of the brass fitting so I am guessing the tap was added before the brass part. Is there any way to get the brass spindle off so I can see if anything can be...

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Hello . I have moved into a new house which has 3 solar panels. The site manager didn’t know much about them. I know the power generated is not stored in a battery so I wondered how the panels contribute to offset my energy usage and if the contribution is just a token gesture. I attach a pic...

Hello all. Could you advise me on this please? I moved into a new build recently. 14 showers later the water has stopped draining away. In my last house the shower had a ‘trap’ but this one is literally a big silver cap sitting over a hole. It looks unfinished. I have very short hair but my...

Hello. I have got to fit mono-bloc flexi’s to a 15mm pipe. It seems that a flat faced isolation valve will do the trick: 1) in a review someone voiced a concern that if it was not ‘full bore’ it would restrict water flow. Is this true and if so, is there such a thing as a full- bore flat faced...

Hi all. Simple question for plumbers no doubt: I bought a new mono block tap thinking I could easily swap it out. Unfortunately the old tap flexi hose terminates into a nut and olive around standard 15mm pipe meaning that the thread on the old hose was male. The thread on the new hose is...

... Na, she said it was crooked

Thanks to all. After much contemplation in B&Q I finally bought a solvent weld coupler and 3m of 32mm pipe. Crazy that I had to buy 3m but only needed 35mm. Anyway, i stuck the coupler on the nubbin sticking out of the wall and bridged the gap to the compression on the u-bend with the 35mm pipe...

Well, as much as I like the gaffa tape idea for its cost and simplicity given that I’m not a Plumber and all, I think Hugh’s idea might give me less grief from the missus, long term. I wondered if could use a short piece of pipe and use a collar and glue to connect to the bit in the wall? The...