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Hi :D Just moved into a new house - I'd got to know my old vented system pretty well and did quite a bit of successful DIY work on it. However - This new place has an unvented / pressurized system, and one of the overflows is dripping. For the H/W, in the attic there is a cylinder with a...

Ok thanks very much for the replies. Any thoughts on the doorstep? Would I dig out and replace the doorstep first, laying new tarmac after, or tarmac then doorstep on top? If doorstep first, what base do Iay it on... compa ted screed? Concrete? Cheers, Ton

A couple of additional questions, regardless of Option: - What would I want to lay the new doorstep on top of? Tarmac all the way, and lay on top of that? How will drainage work. The current slabs are just angled away from the house, they do not look good. - How should the ironworks be raised...

Hi, I'm looking to sort out my tarmac driveway, hoping to achieve the following; - Making the whole thing flat. It is already 'flat' but areas have sunk - especially around where the weigh of the cars has been for the last 22yrs. another area is around the water meter cover (iron, meter set...

Hi I just thought if anyone reads this in the future they might want to know the solution - The problem has been solved just by cutting back the vent pipe slightly at mentioned above. There is now no dripping, no condensation, and the water in the tank isn't hot. Tested for two days, seems...

Hi Thanks very much to you all for the responses -Just got home. The overflow dripping still (slowly, as always). Checked the CH tank, level of water NOT up to the pipe. Level of water about 110mm deep (I assume this is tolerable, its well over the inlet, and well under the overflow). But the...

P.S - Will raising the height of the C/H tank to the same height as the top of the water level in the cold water tank prevent water running between the two via the pin-hole in the coil (if there is one?)

Cheers for the response - I was worried someone would give a response like that tho, argh! I put an S-flange on the cylinder for the shower pump, and replaced the 3-way valve a while back, but I think full cylinder replacement is beyond my DIY ability :( How can I be sure? I cant see if the...

Hi :) I've got a open/vented system in my 1990's two story house. There are two tanks in the attic, one large cold water tank, and one smaller c/h expansion tank. Both tanks are fed by 15mm cold mains via a ball valve. The overflow pipe from the smaller tank drips (slowly, but regularly -...

Hi :D Continuing my DIY plastering adventures, having done two bathrooms and smoothed over a couple of ceilings, I'm going to have a crack at the conservatory pictured. Wife wants all the brick plastered, to be finished ready for paint (no tiling). I've never plastered onto bare...

Cheers for the responses - the screwheads you can see are whwre I raised a section on the t&g (glued tounge) boards to replace With 18mm ply under the shower tray and the bit on the right was a small peice I took up just to move a radiator pipe into the wall so I could have angled valves on...

P.S ignore the stuff on the tray - its just dead weight to hold it down while the sealant around the base of the wall panels dries. Also, I won't be using that tubbed adhesive, it's leftover from a previous job. The powered stuff under the hoover is for this floor :D Tom

Hi :D First, the picture; When I installed the shower tray, I replaced that section of floorboard with 18mm ply, levelled it with packers and laid it on a solid bed of bonding plaster. To be level, it needed the left hand side raising about 6-7mm as you can see by the gap in the...

Ah, air admittance valve, gotya, cheers mate, tom

Cheers for the response, whats an AAV?

Hi :D Just plumbing in a new bathroom. It makes logical sense in the room to plumb the sink waste into the pan connector so it flows into the soil pipe. I've bought a right angle pan connector that has a 32mm socket on it to take the sink waste. Should I be putting a non return valve...

Yes I did...see first post! :D You are right that I'm trying to buy a cheap fire on the internet...however I hadn't even got as far as having quotes from anyone on fitting. Think we'll need to save a bit and fork out for a local supply & fit. Cheers again for all the posts, Tom

Alright cheers mate, will go with that! Sadly however, I just noticed that the tray has a huge crack across the back of it, so I've got to wait till Tuesday for a replacement before I can bed the new one down and fit the panels....

Cheers - any reason why no one would want to fit a balanced flue fire through the wall instead?

Hi :D I ask this in the Tiling Forum rather than in woodwork because I guess Shower Panels are closer to tiling than anything else! Anyway, I'm fitting three shower panels around a shower tray. - The tray is 1200x900mm - I've got two 900mm panels and one 1200mm panel...