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Hi Right, i have ripped out the old bathroom ready for the new suite. We are having a mixer shower, plus stone tray and enclosure, towel rail, toilet and sink. The hous eneeds a central heating system so we are going to have the carcass pipework wor the shower installed and the carcass...

ha ha maybe i give these things a hard time and yes, in certain circumstances they are the only choice, but surely there is a better option?? i deffo wouldnt want to be a plumber who has to go and repair one of these things. What if the lid came off!!!?? now that would not be fun!!!! george

cheers bernard! i have got an NTE 5 socket ready to go in. could i run a new cable down from the box on the wall outside?? cheers george

ahh yes but i disconnected the electric supply before hand so couldnt pump it away even if i wanted to!!!! me and the missus had great fun trying to get it sownstairs keeping it level so it didnt spill everywhere!!!! george

glad it made you laugh - i can laugh at it now but my trousers needed washing twice before the smell came out!!!! why do people invent such stupid things?? oh and they had supplied the power tothe saniflow, light, and extractor fan from the socket ring main!!!! have ripped it all out...

hi i have recently bought a house with a saniflow toilet in a cloak room in the front bedroom - it was an old lady who owned the property. i have decided to knock this bathroom down as its only a stud wall. when i came to remove the saniflow unit, i was faced with a pipe running...

hi we are decirating at the moment after buying our first house. i removed the old phone and there was the really old 1960's style oval junction box. i have disconnected this and got a new type master socket to connect up to the 2 core incoming cable. however i want to put the box further...

cheers eberyone. the stop cock in the kitchen has stopped leaking for now - think it may of resealed itself or something!! spoke to ST and they are coming out on wednesday to do an isolation on it so i can change the valve inside, then they can turn it back on for me and its there problem...

yeah the handle is deffo broke!! all i can see is the shaft that the handle used to be attached to!!! if they come out to replace the valve outside, will they need to dig up the street?? the valve is at the bottom of a 4 or 6" tube!! cheers george

hi i wanted to change the taps in the kitchen and as they did not have serviceman valves on the feeds i needed to turn the water off at the internal stop cock. however, when i tried to turn it, it had obviously been opened fully and not moved again for several years as i could barely turn...

hi this is a really common problem on fiestas. its the solenoid valve situated on the bulk head. normally you can hear a knocking sound coming froim behind the dash when the dial is on hot. if you open the bonnet and look into the compartment behind the carpet on the bulkhead, you should...

right, on removal of some of the paper it looks like the boards have been sealed with a really hard paint of some sort. would this now be ok to carefully steam?? i am only assuming that the walls are plaster board - i dont know what else they would use to create partition walls in a circa...

i think its just raw boards. we will lline them before we paint them though. george

hi can anyone tell me the best way to replace some concrete cladding tiles which have fell out of the panels on the exterior walls of my house. Basically they just seem to of slipped out. Can i just slide the tiles back up or do i need to remove the surrounding tiles and nail them back on...

hi just joined this forum as there seems to be a wealth of knowledge on here. Basically we are strippint the papaer off a house we have bought and need to strip textured paper off plasterboard walls. We can scrape/peel off the top layer, leaving the backing paper on the wall still. Will...